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

[Mark Kohut]

I have now listened in my early morning quiet. yes!, yes!--morris, I love
love the comparison to American Pie  and I will say, as pretentiously
as The Donald bloviates,  that this might be the first masterpiece of the
Trump era....I was mind-blown; I stood up in surprise and wonder while
listening,
not done since on a subway with a great, great Murakami story....

Kennedy as the Camelot King, remember? embodying the hearts of all in the
land......with all that Golden Bough stuff about
kings in their towers and the newly sprung land--which we know TRP used
.....the land as fertile, alive, the people happy under the Good King....
reminds of the great ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER similarly
what is the line about the sunrise? ---i will be listening
all day....."50 years of looking for his soul"......the last President
embodying (maybe projectively, don't matter) all
the promise of our democracy since moving right down the scale thru the
Degradation of the Democratic Dogma,
that Henry Adams work we know TRP has read .....and we know they are some
kind of friends....

When do you think written? i say mostly the seventies but touched up since?
When recorded?

Murder most foul all over the land as our non-human Commander in Chief
criminally tries to kill everyone
like at the end of hamlet....

yes, I will get these thoughts in better order and try to have even more of
them, he threatens..........

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 6:39 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are MANY band/song references.  The music is lamentful.  To me this
> is a dirge, an epitaph.  "Bye Bye Mis American Pie" is in that tradition,
> but was bouncy. I also think the timing of the release is something to
> think about.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:21 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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