the littlest mason

[David Casseres]

jody sez

>p.s. Okay yo sleeping sixties types:

huh, wha? umm...

> Dylan wrote both "Visions of Johanna" and "I Dreamt I Saw St. Augustine,"
>     right? Did Joan Baez sing them both? Does anyone remember?

Pretty sure she didn't.  When I hear "inside the museum, Infinity goes up 
on trial / voices whisper, this is what Salvation must be like after a 
while / but Mona Lisa's got the highway blues, you can tell by the way 
she smiles..." it's Dylan's own voice on "Blond On Blonde."  Baez did 
sing "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" on one entire side of an LP, 
guaranteed to put us 60's types into a drooling coma; that song is a 
secret sister to "Visions of Johanna."  As for "I Dreamed I Saw St. 
Augustine," I think that came later ("John Wesley Harding"?), after Baez 
had quit doing "Bobby songs."

>And couldn't we see the seeds of the awfulness to come?

Naw, we were stoned, and busy memorizing stuff like the above.


Cheers,
David