Dylan’s muse dies at Woodstock
mainThe mystery woman on the cover of a Bob Dylan album has died, aged 81.
Sally Grossman was the wife of Dylan’s manager at the time. She died on their estate in Woodstock.
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She was on a cover of an album- certainly not Dylan’s “muse”.
Last words: “We are not a muse.”
Perhaps not exactly, but she did introduce Bob to Sara, his first wife…
A frequent donor to jazz and world-music programs at the Maverick Concerts, Sally Grossman was an amazing woman, truly one of the last great Woodstock originals. Picking up the pieces of her formidable husband’s business after his sudden death, Sally lived one helluva life, and I salute her.
Indeed. She will be missed…
“Muse” or not, Sally Grossman was a huge character in Woodstock—one of the big personalities who made the place iconic in the late 60s and 70s. Adieu.