Bob Dylan was taught the secret of noncommutative phase alchemy healing medicine music by the great Lonnie Johnson, best secret musician

 Lonnie Johnson playlist inspired by Bob Dylan's explanation - thanks

 ""It had been shown to me in the early '60s by Lonnie Johnson...how they form melodies out of triplets and are axiomatic to the rhythm and the chord changes....I don't know why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is....When Lonnie had showed this to me so many years earlier it was as if he was saying something to me in a foreign language...Thematic triplets making everything hypnotic. I could even hypnotize myself. I could do this night after night. No fatigue or weariness...I do know that the universe is formed with mathematical principles whether I understand them or not, and I was going to let that guide me." 

Chronicles, Volume One," by Bob Dylan, pgs 157-161.

 Bob Dylan remembers idolizing Johnson in Greenwich Village during the early 1960s: 

“He greatly influenced me … ‘Corrina, Corrina’ [which Dylan covered on his 1963 album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan], that’s pretty much Lonnie Johnson. I used to watch him every chance I got and sometimes he’d let me play with him.”

https://tommyemmanuel.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/lonnie-johnson-masters-of-country-blues.pdf 

Johnson was a pioneering Blues and Jazz guitarist and banjoist. He started playing in cafes in New Orleans and in 1917 he traveled in Europe, playing in revues and briefly with Will Marion Cook's Southern Syncopated Orchestra. When he returned home to New Orleans in 1918 he discovered that his entire family had been killed by a flu epidemic except for one brother. He and his surviving brother, James "Steady Roll" Johnson moved to St. Louis in 1920 where Lonnie played with Charlie Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs and with Fate Marable in their Mississippi riverboat bands. In 1925 Johnson married Blues singer Mary Johnson and won a Blues contest sponsored by the Okeh record company.

 

 Part of the prize was a recording deal with the company. Throughout the rest of the 1920s he recorded with a variety of bands and musicians, including Eddie Lang, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. In the 1930s Johnson moved to Cleveland, Ohio and worked with the Putney Dandridge Orchestra, and then in a tire factory and steel mill. In 1937 he moved back to Chicago and played with Johnny Dodds, and Jimmie Noone. Johnson continued to play for the rest of his life, but was often forced to leave the music business for periods to make a living. In 1963 he once again appeared briefly with Duke Ellington.

According to the french blues historian Gérard Herzhaft, Johnson was "undeniably the creator of the guitar solo played note by note with a pick, which has become the standard in jazz, blues, country, and rock" (Encyclopedia of blues, 1997, second edition).