Me And Bobby

[poliphilo]

Scorsese's documentary about Dylan's youth has taken me back to my own "bliss was it in that dawn to be alive" moment. It's 1968, there are mountains outside the window and me and Graham Leader and Marc de May are going to change the world tomorrow, but today, in preparation, we're about to lean back, shut our eyes and listen to John Wesley Hardin just one more time...

Mind you, I didn't get it. Still don't. John Wesley Harding, I mean.

I have a rocky relationship with Dylan. I've always wanted to like him more than I actually do. I think the early stuff is dated and the "poetry" often facile- and yet scattered throughout his career, right up to the present, are songs I love. My very favourite is a thing called Dark Eyes which comes off a mid-80s album which many of the critics rate as his worst ever....

The second part of Scorsese's film is showing tonight. I'll be there.

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I got home in time to miss the first 15 mins, but turned it on. Bob Dylan went to Canada to help induct Gordon Lightfoot into the Juno Hall of Fame. It's a major happening for a song writer to pay that kind of tribute to another writer, but even MORE of a tribute considering Dylan's status.

I like a LOT of his music. But like you I, I have always wanted to like him more than I actually do.

Everyone has different tastes. Obviously my tastes lean more toward Lightfoot. But Dylan has had plenty to say, and still does.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it's really cool how they agreed to premiere the film on the same day in Britain and America.

I have to admit I don't know Gordon Lightfoot. Tell me some song titles I might have heard of....

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Oh boy! Someone who wants to know about Lightfoot! halfmoon_mollie rubs her hands together in excitement!

Early Mornin' Rain
Sit Down Young Stranger
Sundown
Beautiful
If You Could Read My Mind
Carefree Highway

(those were all 'popular'. Now here's a list of my favorites)

Minstrel of the Dawn
Sit Down Young Stranger
Baby Step Back
Don Quixote
Summer Side of Life

I'm stopping here because I could, literally,go on and on. I have every CD of Lightfoot music that was released by the major labels, and some that I've picked up in bargain bins. (and I have a bootleg lightfoot source...!) At one time I had vinyl, and 8 track, and cassette.

I was tickled by Dylan's comment that he just wants a Lightfoot song to go forever...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for those. I must now do some research of my own.

The second part of the Dylan film starts in eight minutes.......