New Bob Dylan song: Huck's Theme

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

nudes *and* dudes

https://www.nydailynews.com/resizer/a1xlceGyYuU-Bw7U6YgdtlVaN9s=/415x537/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LMZUEVDP53LPUGA3INSMYBS52Q.jpg

https://www.needsomefun.net/wp-content/gallery/bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-2013/cache/1-bob-dylan-new-orleans-series-1.jpg-nggid03110-ngg0dyn-640x480x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg

i love his singing on this one (and the last one). delivered with a wink, but he's not joking. well, not entirely joking.

https://www.castlefineart.com/assets/img/resized/standard/grande-c381rvore-beachfront.jpg

No nudes, shoulda used crude? Ciick to enlarge that if you pleeeze.

I initially heard the line in the last verse as "get up off my d"

had to rewind and check

"Will I be lewd to the dude and crude to his prude and to his profession?" --Joel Gibb

I like "I Contain Multitudes" well enough, but it feels like he just dropped some leftover verses from "Murder Most Foul." Either way, Bob in old sap mode feels like comfort food for me at the moment.

Yeah, I’d eat up a whole album of this stuff.

a new bob album would just make my year, even though the year sucks

I'm hoping that he'll release an entire album this year, one song at a time

our old friend greil, who once argued that it was not *entirely* a coincidence that john lydon's name was similar to that of the medieval anabaptist leader john of leyden, is unimpressed by the david ferrie/guy banister theory:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/real-life-rock-top-10-april-2020/

I really liked that review, though--the fact that it was based on something concrete, the widespread reaction to the song, rather than some impenetrable tangent, that was a good start. I think he made a somewhat significant factual error, though: "Murder Most Foul" made #1 on some specialized chart, digital downloads or something like that, it wasn't the Top 100--that would have been really remarkable.

Looks like another new song may be queued up for tonight:

What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see. pic.twitter.com/TzCBvpIMBo

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 7, 2020

New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th.
Pre-order now: https://t.co/SN0XeyNKiN
Listen to “False Prophet” here: https://t.co/05k7HYtPiK pic.twitter.com/raitEZpabe

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 8, 2020

was just about to create this; beat to it ---> Bob Dylan - My Rough and Rowdy Ways /2020) Anticipation and Discussion Thread

ah just saw it on Twitter

"Huck's Tune" really is great. I wish he put it on Modern Times per Clinton Heylin's suggestion.

I have some reservations about that album, so I tried tweaking it a bit. I took out two of the slow numbers partly because they sound like carbon copies of two best-selling pop records - forgotten today (partly because the original audience has now mostly passed), but they were unique arrangements and what we got here sounds like lazy covers to me. The blues numbers I don't mind, those arrangements have been recycled and rewritten endlessly long before Modern Times, but three feels like one too many so per Heylin's suggestion I used an alternate of "Someday Baby" found on Tell Tale Signs.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the final result - for me, this sequence would live up to the A+ rating Christgau generously bestowed on Modern Times:

1. "Thunder on the Mountain" 5:55
2. "Spirit on the Water" 7:41
3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" 6:02
4. "Someday Baby" 5:56 [alternate version from Tell Tale Signs]
5. "Workingman's Blues #2" 6:07
6. "Huck's Tune" 4:09
7. "Nettie Moore" 6:53
8. "The Levee's Gonna Break" 5:43
9. "Ain't Talkin'" 8:48

Also brings down the total running time to about 57 1/2 minutes.

I approve!

This has always been an A+ album for me but truth be told I usually skip those two tracks you excised.