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

[rich]

wishing all get well vibes

fwiw, this long soulful jazz piece reflects best my present mood. great
trio from Australia who've Ive seen live a few times in NYC. they are fab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifeUssHSKg

rich

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:46 PM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Oh gads, Laura, be careful and stay in recovery mode.  Yikes! But thank
> you for reminding us of recovery.
>
> [ Some authors/artists can do overt political statements better than
> others - Country Joe was pretty good -  Baez was good -  Dylan’s talents
> lie elsewhere - imo ]
>
> Bek
>
>
> > On Mar 31, 2020, at 12:59 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thomas E: Also, I find some of the lyrics awful. The clumsy opening or
> "I'm
> > just a
> > patsy like Patsy Cline" -- this is not very good, is it?
> >
> > Agreed. Dylan is at his best when he's obscure and at his worst when he's
> > overt.
> >
> > Laura
> > (recovered from what was probably coronavirus, and waiting for two of my
> > adult kids to make it through)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 2:58 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Here is my admittedly fanlike hearing of the patsy line....
> >>
> >> Since THE Patsy is a person worth being like, the first patsy is
> >> an up usage of it, so to spin.
> >>
> >> I read it with some resonances, one being one of her most famous song is
> >> Nelson's
> >> "Crazy' so the narrator is a patsy for love---or America, JFK, the soul
> of
> >> America.
> >>
> >> And, since I also like TRP, some of his song lyrics get bashed......
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 5:31 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> >> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am not saying you're wrong, just that the first thing one notes
> surely
> >>> is that Bob Dylan is a conspiracy theorist.
> >>>
> >>> As for the archetypes... The song comes across as an elegy for a
> country
> >>> or world gone wrong because of the most foul murder of the "king". If
> >>> this is true, the ailing Fisher King of Arthurian legend does not work
> >>> as a frame of reference, and neither does Frazer's sacrifice of a dying
> >>> king for the good of the kingdom. Yes, the assassination is depicted as
> >>> a "human sacrifice", a ritual slaughter performed on "the altar of the
> >>> rising sun", but the killing of the king does not lead to the
> >>> restoration of a barren wasteland but to strife and civil unrest.  The
> >>> allusions to Shakespeare therefore seem more apt, even though I wonder
> >>> why, besides "Hamlet", "The Merchant of Venice" and Lady Macbeth are
> >>> singled out for reference.
> >>>
> >>> Apart from the references to the murder itself, the most peculiar
> aspect
> >>> of the lyrics is the interlocking of motifs from assassination lore and
> >>> from popular culture. Is this just free-wheelin' association, or is
> >>> there more to it?
> >>>
> >>> Also, I find some of the lyrics awful. The clumsy opening or "I'm just
> a
> >>> patsy like Patsy Cline" -- this is not very good, is it?
> >>>
> >>> Related listening:
> >>>
> >>> https://www.themetimeradio.com/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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