rolling thunder revue

 

A Complete

"a week or two"

 

"a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes"

 «(...) the big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece, spokesman, or even conscience of a generation. That was funny. All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of. I'd left my hometown only ten years earlier, wasn't vociferating the opinions of anybody. My destiny lay down the road with whatever life invited, had nothing to do with representing any kind of civilization. Being true to yourself, that was the thing.

(...)

I had no idea what they were thinking. Later an article would hit the streets with the headline "Spokesman Denies That He's a Spokesman". I felt like a piece of meat that someone had thrown to the dogs.»

há dias em que devia ser adepto de bowling ou outra coisa qualquer

"Dirt Road Blues" *

«On the Road»

Madruga. Agarra num grupo de CD's e no volante. Quatro horas e três auto-estradas para aterrar em Lamego. Almoça que é aquilo que pode levar. No Tribunal a coisa resolve-se. O sol ajuda. Pé na estrada. Mais quatro horas. E três auto-estradas. Faz telefonemas para não ter sono. Chega a casa e deita-se no chão para arranjar as costas.

* 'Time Out of Mind', Bob Dylan

the Dylan Way (ou porque a Academia não consegue falar com ele)

(brilhante remix de Mark Ronson e 'The Dap Kings')

Like a Nobel Stone

Nobel da Literatura 2016 

"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." 

O Almanaque

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937 - 2014)

Like a Zapping Stone

Experiência total aqui.

Todos temos direito a um final feliz

"Girl from the North Country", Vedder on Dylan

no pinheiro 35

"IRS pago pelos portugueses vai subir cerca de 30% em 2013"

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.


'With God on our Side'
'The Times They are a-Changin', 1964

Uncle Bob whistles

há 71 anos a tecer o enigma

A música do Avô - XXXII

Bob Dylan, 'Self-Portrait'

girl from the north country

/

If you're traveling in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was the true love of mine.

 

If you go when the snowflakes storm

When the rivers freeze and summer ends

Please see if she's a coat so warm

To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see if her hair hangs long

If it rolls and flows all down her breast

Please see from me if her hair hangs long

That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remember me at all

Many times I've often prayed

In the darkness of my night

In the brightness of my day.

 

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair

Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline

Remember me to one who lives there

She once was a true love of mine.

NYC is Coffee and (this time) (these) Books

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