Word: changin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DYLAN TRIES TO FIT a ballad into his new style in "Changin of the Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals...
...that Dylan has not removed himself from "social consciousness," whatever that is supposed to mean, at all. He never claimed to be spokesman for a movement. "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" from John Wesley Harding is, for example, as moving a protest as "The Times They Are A-Changin'," besides being a much more spiritual work, touching--not preaching at--the listener. Dylan's switch from omniscient father to exploring child explains his words: "I was so much older then--I'm younger than that now," in an album he recorded a full eight years...
...Club stage, played a lot of folk music in those days, music which captured the liberal self-righteousness that grew out of the freedom rides of Selma and Birmingham. "The answer," my sister and her friends were told, "is blowin' in the wind." "The times, they are a-changin'." The message of the music was: Don't give up; we're winning. Today may look bleak, but "see what tomorrow brings...
...crying for you." This appeal, in a new song by left-hearted Folk Singer Joan Baez, seems to have been answered by her friend Bob Dylan. The Minnesota-born troubadour, who in recent years abandoned his ballads of protest (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, killed three months ago in an escape attempt at San Quentin prison. Excerpt: "The prison guards they cursed him,/ As they...
...sure, there are no moony love numbers. But there are long glances at the rear-view mirror (Yesterday; It Was a Very Good Year; Those Were the Days; Try to Remember), hymns to individuality in a societal crush (Little Boxes; We Shall Overcome; The Times They Are A-Changin'), and?most surprisingly in a secular era?a strong, if unspecific theology: Bridge Over Troubled Water; The Weight; Turn! Turn! Turn!. It continues to the present with Bob Dylan's New Morning...