Your GPS' New Voice? Bob Dylan

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 25, 2009 1:11 PM CDT

(Newser) – Looking for Highway 61? The answer, my friend, might soon be blowin' in the wind: “I am talking to a couple of car companies about being the voice of their GPS system,” Bob Dylan revealed in a radio interview today. “I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice saying something like, ‘Left at the next street, no, a right. You know what? Just go straight.’”

But, reports NME, Dylan reflected that he "probably shouldn't do it, because whichever way I go I always end up at one place: Lonely Avenue."

In this Aug. 26, 2006 file photo, Bob Dylan performs as the opening act of the Pawtucket Arts Festival at McCoy Stadium, in Pawtucket, RI. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

In this undated photo provided by Sony BMG, shows musician Bob Dylan. (AP Photo/Sony BMG, William Claxton, file)

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