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Sunday, September 14. 2008

Masterpiece

Dylan's Visions of Johanna is one of his many masterpieces, in my opinion. You cannot really absorb the flavor of the song unless you have lived in NYC, used the subways, and lived in non-comfortable quarters and old lofts where the heat pipes cough. 

The version on Blonde on Blonde is excellent. This is an acoustic live performance from 1966, just audio.

The remarkable late-night lyrics are here.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Song and Dance Man at 15:25 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Masterpiece? Well, bird dog, just this once, and only this once, you have finally, triumphing over your many obvious shortcoming, sins, arrest record, and misbegotten affairs with a host of poxed barnyard animals, gotten something right.

Go forth my son and sin no more.

Today is the first day of the rest of your strife.
#1 vanderleun on 2008-09-14 16:01 (Reply)
"We sit here stranded though we're all doin' our best to deny it"

I love this song. You picked a good one, BD. I have an odd metric for people I meet: They love Dylan or they don't. If they love him - a friend I will cherish.

"The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face .. Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place"

Yeah....

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#2 Meta on 2008-09-14 18:03 (Reply)
About once a week I go to a site that has all the Dylan Lyrics. I pick three or four randomly and read. I have found many people there - Pound, Elliot, Bennett Cerf, Dante, Roger Williams, James Joyce and some I can't place. I haven't really ever been into poetry. I've probably missed a lot because of that. Somehow I don't feel deprived. Dylan gives me all of them.
#3 Roy Lofquist on 2008-09-14 21:21 (Reply)
Just wondering here, but has anyone ever seen Dylan, Dog, and a sheep in the same stall at the same time?
#4 vanderleun on 2008-09-15 12:46 (Reply)
I have. But he threatened me with a journey to places he had written about. So I ain't sayin nuthin.
#5 Roy Lofquist on 2008-09-15 12:55 (Reply)

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