Mentor Monday: Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan

Behind every successful person, there’s a mentor who helped them along the way. Some of the most influential people in history were encouraged to succeed by some of the most well-known people of our time.

 To help celebrate MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership’s 25th Anniversary and 25 years of the youth mentoring movement, they have curated a list of 25 of the most meaningful mentoring relationships in history:

Musician Woody Guthrie, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs including “This Land is Your Land,” mentored fellow singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.  As a high school student in the 1950’s, Dylan listened to Guthrie’s music, eventually moving to New York City and befriending the musician.  Dylan played and wrote to his idol, which was often met with Guthrie’s approval.  In 1962, Dylan released “Song to Woody,” an ode to Guthrie.

from Mentoring.org.