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...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...
...youthful legions gladly follow, and so, usually, does most of the pop world. He came out of Hibbing, Minn., as a straightforward folk singer in the Woody Guthrie manner. Then he began composing and singing the brooding social-protest lyrics (Masters of War, The Times They Are A-Changin') that epitomized the unrest of a generation. His subsequent fusion of folk and rock transformed the pop scene even more. For last year's John Wesley Harding, Dylan went to Nashville to get an authentic country flavor-thereby kicking off a whole new wave of interest in country music...
...rock is revolutionary. By its very beat and sound, it has always implicitly rejected restraints and celebrated freedom and sexuality. Moreover, both social and political overtones were brought into its lyrics through Bob Dylan's influence in the early '60s, as in The Times They Are A-Changin...
...into the songs. Some of his earlier songs--Corrina, Corrina, and Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance -- are heavy imitations of Country & Western sound. Dylan comes from Hibbing, Minnesota, a town he describes with great amusement on the printed insert that comes with The Times They Are A-Changin'. A college classmate of the wife of a former editor of mine went to high school with Dylan, and said he was small and nobody talked...