This is the way the world the world ends, this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with Jeff babbling about the demigods playing ping-pong.
Wishing all of us, everywhere, health and peace of mind.
Bob Dylan
204: Bob Dylan, ‘Idiot Wind’ (NY Sessions)
Dylan, not as a kid pretending to be a cotton-picker in Greenwich Village; not him embarrassing himself as an Evangelist preacher; not as an old fool croaking standards–this is Dylan at his creative pinnacle.
It’s another side of Bob Dylan — unmasked, naked and vulnerable. We’re idiots, babe, it’s a wonder that we still know how to breathe.
201: Bob Dylan, ‘All Along the Watchtower’
Bob Dylan at his best. Which is to say the art of our time at its best. For time capsules, for satellites to distant universes, for future generations: this is what we had to offer.
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Bob Dylan at his best. It don’t get no better than that.
Continue reading...008: ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine’, Fairport Convention (Bob Dylan)
An early, little-known gem of Dylan’s that he never quite figured out how to play. But it was nailed by Fairport Convention.
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