New Bob Dylan song: Huck's Theme

this is masterful. feels like an entire album's worth of material somehow crammed into one long track. almost too much to take in at once. especially love the violin, which reminds me of astral weeks.

also, i saw someone point out that

Slide down the banister, go get your coat
Ferry 'cross the Mersey and go for the throat

may contain buried references to guy banister and david ferrie, and now i can't unhear it

That's great, missed that.

That's how I appreciate it -- a half-hearted concordance of JFK.

Well...like it or not, I don't hear anything half-hearted there.

Even better, no Kevin Costner.

The only thing half-hearted about it would be a lack of willpower to edit it into something more powerful.

I don't know--I think its length is where so much of its power resides. It's like that 13-hour Rivette film, Out 1. You could edit it down drastically (even he did) and it's not like you'd lose any story, but then it wouldn't be Out 1 anymore.

or editing Akerman

prevailing sense from nerd detectives at expectingrain.com is that while this might have been written around Tempest it is more likely a recent recording, even possibly in the last year

That’s interesting...

exciting if true! maybe still an album of originals left in the tank

that feels like the best explanation. the more I've listened and also listened to Tempest, I'm myself convinced it wasn't recorded during those sessions

i love this song

the litany of references at the end that somehow doesn't seem monotonous. sounsd like nothing i can think of except desolation row.

Also cf. All the friends I ever had are gone.

("Delia")

I wonder what dickie betts he has in mind , the Elizabeth Reed stuff or Jessica etc

I think he says Blue Sky?

https://youtu.be/lZg9MWLQ5_c

throw the gun in the gutter/and walk on by

the litany of references at the end that somehow doesn't seem monotonous. sounds like nothing i can think of except desolation row.

Reminds me a bit of "Chimes of Freedom," and I guess "Ring Them Bells" as well - but where those songs have big sweeping categories - "flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight," "Ring them bells sweet Martha for the poor man's son," this has a seemingly endless list of specific people.

Wait, I think we can go somewhere with this! Chimes of Freedom is his early period, when he was thinking in big sweeping hippie abstractions about freedom and justice. Ring Them Bells is roughly the same idea but in religious terms; the chimes of freedom have turned into bells calling us to worship and be saved. But this is a song that's partly about being at the end of your lifetime, when all those big abstract spaces have been filled in with the real things and people and works of art that you've engaged with in some way over the course of your life. So instead of the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale, we get Lindsey and Stevie Nicks. And in the place of the chimes of freedom, we have every song Bob Dylan has ever heard.

I keep hearing "play it for Dead C and Stevie Nicks"

probably not but

Number one on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales list!

The Guardian has dares to do this:

Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/bob-dylans-50-greatest-songs-ranked

I didn't get beyond #46: Make You Feel My Love is one of his five worst songs ever.

Yep, lots to disagree with. But that's the nature of lists like that

Sitting though “make you feel” by Adele is pure torture

Number one on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales list!

Apparently it’s Dylan’s first song to ever hit #1 on any Billboard chart (“under his own name”)

The Guardian has dares to do this:

Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/09/bob-dylans-50-greatest-songs-ranked

― Duke, Thursday, April 9, 2020 4:17 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

without looking i'm guessing "what can i do for you" didn't make the list which makes it invalid to me

interesting that "slow train" and "groom" did though

#today and #tomorrow,#skeletons and #nudes,#sparkle and #flash,#AnneFrank and #IndianaJones,#fastcars and #fastfood, #bluejeans and #queens,#Beethoven and #Chopin,#life and #death.https://t.co/o5VQKJ0NHx

— bobdylan.com (@bobdylan) April 17, 2020

wtf!

God bless this weird motherfucker

fuck this is a great one

Lol, Bob is the best.

I assume this means a new album is coming.

I paint landscapes
and I paint dudes

I like how "dudes" is there so he can rhyme it with the title yet it still works.

This one is more ehhhh. As in, "Great, Bob, you remember what you read in elementary school English."

I paint landscapes
and I paint dudes

think it's "nudes" haha

lol

it's definitely nudes

nude dudes with 'tude

i paint brosephs
and i paint dudes
plz send multitudes of nudes

https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/8738/morgan-web1.jpg?w=1020&q=80&fit=max

I'm sorry Bob but it's dudes now, so much better that way

Bob Dylan: Send Nudes

multitudes of nudes

There is another "dudes" rhyme though.

nude dudes with 'tude

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

how'd you know my memoir title?

xp “I relic and I frolic, with all the young dudes”

love this era of Bob