NP nor Pandemic. We can all talk about this new song and why Bob released it now?

[gary webb]

I agree Thomas... Dylan, at his best, is a fusion of very evocative
story-telling genres in music (Folk, Country, and Rock and Roll). He
patches it together with poetry. That label (poet) is something I believe
he has always resisted, but he is a skilled wordsmith, and he can evoke
very startling imagery. I don't know if his treatment is capable of the
nuance (I personally think is) required when tackling JFK, or his
assassination. Naturally, Dellilo's Underworld (especially the Zapruder
parties) and the Roxland Ballroom scene in GR immediately rushed through my
head, but Scorcese's Irishman feels more to point... Scorcese's take is
much darker, more cynical, and probably more in line with our current mood
on earth at the moment... And I agree with you David, buried underneath all
the Americana pop culture is a ballad... and in that sense it's moving, but
I've been listening to some of the Country ballads that came out of
watching Burns' Country Music doc, and they do more for me now, in the
current hellscape well live in... but yes, time will tell..

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:21 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> Too early to say anything substantial about this. Of course, the title
> is taken from "Hamlet".
>
> Dylan namechecks "Nature Boy" which was written by eden ahbez and made
> famous by Nat King Cole. Here is a version by Alex Chilton with William
> Eggleston on the piano:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1phuIrU6sKY
>
> And while I am at it, here is "Corona" by the Minutemen (and no, I am
> not familiar with this song because of "Jackass"):
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFOqOjJ9Wk
>
> Am 27.03.2020 um 13:31 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> > https:/m/twitter.com/bobdylan/status/1243389605451198465?s=20
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