Word: songfulness
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Nettie Moore The name comes from a slave song, a lament for the singer’s woman who has been sold and gone off to New Orleans with her new master. The song is reminiscent of “L&T’s” “Sugar Baby,” which was much darker and maybe my favorite from that album, with a great acoustic version Dylan did in his Harvard concert Nov. 21, 2004. He throws in a sly Dylan comment on Dylan scholarship: “Well, the world of research has gone...
Thunder On The Mountain Great Rock and Roll song, with his most immediate political lines (if you want) on Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. “All the ladies in Washington scrambling to get out of town/ Look like something bad gonna happen better roll your airplane down...
...just walking, he’s not sure where, but again with something still left to find. The melody and and mood of alienation put it there with “Time Out Of Mind’s” “Highlands,” the better song for my money...
Beyond the Horizon Nice love song, swing jazz again, simpler in lyrics than “Spirit On The Water,” and not as aesthetically perfect, but that’s fine...
Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Straight off blues song, pretty good, but he’s done better in this genre...