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Thursday, December 4. 2008

Thursday Free Ad For Bob (and an example of why Bob is better than he ever was)

A re-post, but well worth it:

"Huck's Tune" was released on the soundtrack to the movie Lucky You last year.  A Spanish YouTube user has put the whole song up along with a homemade music video.  There are a few transcriptions of the lyrics available online but I have decided not to include them so as not to spoil it for first-time listeners.

Damn good stuff.

Posted by The Dylanologist in The Song and Dance Man at 10:27 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Good song. Never heard it.
#1 BD on 2007-12-06 14:44 (Reply)
the director of lucky you, curtis hanson, also directed wonder boys. might explain how bob got on the soundtrack.
#2 kab on 2007-12-06 15:56 (Reply)
This is such a beautiful song. For me it speaks about letting go of any sort of addiction (gambling, sex or romantic attachment, drugs etc..) Dylan always goes straight to the heart of the human condition. In regards to the musical chords, Dylan plays it in C# so put a capo on the first fret of the guitar and play straight C. The progression then goes as follows in triplet time: C C F F C G Am Am... (could be Fmaj7) Peace and Love... Allen in ATL
#3 Allen Black (Link) on 2008-09-11 07:28 (Reply)
Hey, there's an interesting sale going on over at RightWingBob's today. I know you MFers are both Bobnuts and photography nuts, and RWB's post today is at the crossroads of those two bits of nuttiness...
#4 The Distributist on 2008-12-04 13:55 (Reply)
"Better than he ever was." Interesting concept. Nothing in pop music can match his exploding supernova years of 1965-1966 for sheer brilliant creativity, and nothing can match the emotional depth of Blood On The Tracks. Much-overlooked is his gospel period, too, easily the best religious monkey wrench ever thrown in rock music, and I credit Bob for that.

Now, of course, he's showing he's aged more gracefully than anyone else in rock. Better than he ever was? Yes and no. He'll never have the '65-66 sonic boom again, but neither will anyone else. He'll never plumb the depths as meaningfully as he did on Blood On The Tracks, and he'll never again convert to, say, Mormonism and make records that divide his fan base. But he will probably continue maturing better than anyone.
#5 Clubbeaux on 2008-12-05 02:20 (Reply)

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