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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Author: Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1974
First released on Blood On The Tracks ('75). Track described by Allen Ginsberg in his sleevenote on follow-up Desire as 'the great disillusioned national rhyme'. While he probably never even heard the original lyrics, revealed in '91 on Bootleg Series Vol 2. What a luxury to ruthlessly be able to do without- and throw away lyriclines like these: 'Figured I'd lost you anyway, why go on, what's the use? In order to get in a word with you I'd have to come up with some excuse'. Essayist Geoff Dyer in his The Last Days Of Roger Federer (2022) compares these lines with submerged cities and villages obscured forever by the building of a dam. No better excuse to haul up and re-animate this bootleg version as The Original.
Covers:
Bob Dylan [on Hard Rain]
Lucinda Williams [on her Dylan tribute Bob's Back Pages]
Ryan Adams [on his song-by-song reenactment of Blood On The Tracks, but in Idiot Wind using the lyrics like on Bootleg Series Vol. 2]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)