“The post office has been stolen and the mailbox is locked.”
I have had some experience with Texas medicine and railroad gin. People do get uglier. And there is no sense of time. My rain man was Phil. I jumped right in. It cured me. Long time ago.
“Waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.”
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4 responses to “Election Season Song”
Large numbers of people only a few years older than I am seem to worship Dylan. I don’t get it. I like a few of his songs, mostly for the clever lyrics. The voice grates, and the guitar work is nothing special. His later stuff was absolute bilge, “Ballad of the Hurricain” my ass. Unlistenable hack work. I also don’t like Hendrix while I’m on the subject of mid to late 60’s music. Undisciplined and musically incoherent. If you have to take drugs to listen to something there’s something wrong with it. Guy Lombardo sounds good if you get high enough. What I like is musicianship. Something jazz and classical musicians excel at. Some of the most musical, best performed and tightest pop music from that period came from Motown Records, and that’s because their house band was made up of moonlighting jazz musicians and they maintained very high production standards.
btw, Woody Guthrie was an idiot, and Pete Seeger was a communist stooge.
This Machine Kills Eardrums
I mostly like Dylan’s songs done by someone else. But, I do like his lyrics.
Having put some Dylan sheet music on a piano stand, my conclusion is that that his music is pedestrian, like his guitar work. The less said about his voice, the better.
But his lyrics! Having had too much of the Junior Literary Critic mode forced on me in high school, I never bothered with analyzing his lyrics. I just liked the absurd touch in much of his lyrics- this song included.
I never listened to Dylan after Blonde on Blonde. I went on to other things. Perhaps some day I should go on a post-Blonde-on-Blonde binge.
Blonde on Blonde was my high point as well.