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...simplicity (for example, is the logical conclusion of "Property of Jesus" an approval of religious fanaticism?). We can criticize his beliefs. But we cannot say he lacks guts. Bob Dylan is no man's lackey. He will always do and sing what he believes. The times they are a changin', but not Dylan. He still has integrity...
...Weatherman faction took its name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." Cathy Wilkerson seemed oblivious last week to the lesson of another Dylan song: "The times they are a-changin...
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...