Last year my son started listening to Bob Dylan
It followed from playlists of Dr John, which apparently had my teenager badged on Spotify as the late musician's number one fan.
I know Dylan is having another of his moments at present with the biopic movie, but my son was ahead of that news.
I also know that I got interested in Dylan when I was a little older than my teen is now, when I wrote a 10000 word essay for my English class in 1991.
Anyway, it was still surprising that the usual pop hiphop like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar had shifted to music older than me.
On the weekend my youngest and I were talking about the author SE Hinton, as he'd recently enjoyed The Outsiders and I'd given him Rumblefish for Christmas, and I had an idea.
There's an interview with the author where she's asked why her books are so successful and continue to be assigned to high school English classes.
Hinton recognised that she was still young at the time it was written and still had some of the idealism of youth, which resonated authentically with her audience.
Now it's left me wondering if that's part of the appeal for some of that enduring music from earlier decades?
