From AFTER THE FLOOD, the book wherein we learn Bob and Tom

[Mark Kohut]

have been some kind of friends all their long lives.

Liner notes from Bob's WORLD GONE WRONG, 1993:

" STACK A LEE is Frank Hutchinson's version. what does the song
say exactly? it says no man gains immortality through public acclaim.
truth is shadowy.   [no caps are Dylan's]"

Two artists converging on a deep theme, I'd call this.......
too common for any cause and effect notions....but Bob's leap
from his previous sentence is interesting...it seems to me...