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

[Richard Romeo]

It’s at least better than that other long dirge ‘Joey’ which to this day I still don’t know if it’s a joke or not

rich



> On Mar 28, 2020, at 6:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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