Thanks again for Dylan suggestions

[Michael Bailey]

the ones I like to sing and play the best are Country Pie, Time Passes
Slowly (piano of course), and pictures of Johanna.
with a couple of beers I sound really great singing the freight train
blues, if I do say so myself, but Ramblin Jack Elliott does it better
than me (or dylan either, imho)















On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:02 AM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joe Allonby wrote:
>
> "Try "Tangled Up in Blue". It's a nice exercise for the major-sus4-sus2
> figure that pops up in a lot of songs and the narrative makes it
> easier to remember the lyrics."
>
> I got hooked on Lennon's "Happy Xmas" which has a similar major
> -sus4-sus2 pattern and "Tangled up in Blue" will work nicely esp
> because I learned a lot of those chords already. . cool!
>
>
> "Cool thing about "Hurricane": the opening lines read like stage
> directions in a play. Present tense. Describing the action of the
> characters and setting the scene. Pistol shots ring out...Enter Patty
> Ballantine from the other hall... It's an interesting technique."
>
> Huh. . .it is cool just to look at how Dylan sets up the story.
>
> A lot of times exposition in movies esp bore me to tears
> but because I only watch dvds (hate paying 9 bucks in theaters)
> I have learned the fast forward button with captioning!
>
> ed