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Tuesday, December 5. 2023

An early-December song

Sheesh, this fairly-recent Bob song feels real to me. Not sure why, but it's kinda dark like me. He has the gift. "All the world I would defy..." I get that.


The drummer gets it.



Posted by Bird Dog at 16:55 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Not only does he have a poor singing voice, he sounds as if he is singing with cotton or marbles in his mouth.
#1 Gringo on 2023-12-05 17:09 (Reply)
He's old. But he can handle words like few.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2023-12-05 17:53 (Reply)
Word.

As for Dylan's singing, his voice is an appropriate characterization for the mood and subject of the song. (The quatrains are in iambic tetrameter, rhyming ABAB.)
#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2023-12-06 09:40 (Reply)
I grew up in the iron mining towns of Lake Superior and this movie hit home. Had a good soundtrack all the way through and since Bob Dylan grew up in Virginia, MN just a stones throw from Eveleth where this movie is based he obviously had a connection.

I worked all over the world in the mining industry and the no women working in the mines was common practice worldwide until the 2000's. If you don't believe it I've got some stories.
#2 rocdoctom on 2023-12-05 21:27 (Reply)
Listen to the version on Tell-Tale Signs. Darker more shadowy, more cutthroat.
#3 Mel on 2023-12-06 18:32 (Reply)

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