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

[gary webb]

Roseland Ballroom***

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:55 PM gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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