Blowin’ in the Wind: Bob Dylan
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May 24, 2011 at 11:59 am
yousendit link:
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May 25, 2011 at 2:17 am
Dylan wrote this in about 10 minutes one afternoon. He put words to the melody of an old slave song called “No More Auction Block,” which he might have learned from Carter family records. In the evening, Dylan took the song to the nightclub Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village, where he was due to play a set. Before playing it, he announced, “This here ain’t no protest song or anything like that, ’cause I don’t write no protest songs.” During this first performance, Dylan couldn’t read some of his own handwriting and made up some of the lyrics as he went along.
A 1963 Newsweek article fueled rumors that Dylan stole this song from a New Jersey high school student. In 1962, Dylan let a Folk magazine publish the lyrics. The student, Lorre Wyatt from Millburn, NJ, got the magazine and played it for the band he was in, claiming he wrote it. They performed it for their school a few months before Dylan released the song, which led everyone in the school to believe Dylan had stolen this from Wyatt.
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary said in the Radio Times, October 13-19, 2007: “His (Bob Dylan’s) writing put Peter, Paul and Mary on another level. We heard his demos and Albert (Grossman, both Dylan and the trio’s manager) thought the big song was Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, but we went crazy over Blowin’ In The Wind. We instinctively knew the song carried the moment of its own time. He was rising so fast over anybody else, in the level of poetry and expression, to a shatteringly brilliant level.”
and….
The song prompted a homily by Pope John Paul II. Playing for the Pontiff at the World Eucharistic Congress in Bologna in 1997, Dylan was greeted by him with the reflection: “You say the answer is blowing in the wind, my friend. So it is: but it is not the wind that blows things away. It is the wind that is the breath and life of the Holy Spirit, the voice that calls and says, ‘Come!'”
Happy 70th Bob – “Oh I was so much older then I’m younger than that now” 🙂
May 26, 2011 at 10:10 am
sblake,
That quote is the prefect ending to the background of this song. I first heard the song when PP&M sang it-had no idea Dylan had written it. When I heard Dylan singing it, I was taken aback-it was perfect with his voice.
I sometimes wish I had the ability to write so quickly and almost mindlessly. Just sit down, crank out an amazing song in ten minutes.
May 25, 2011 at 3:03 am
Just checkin’ out : I have 18 covers of that song. Only 18 & I was sure I had more! Favorite cover is by Stevie Wonder (1966).
May 26, 2011 at 10:11 am
Mario,
I think I might have about 5 or 6. Smithsonian-Folkways released a tribute album of all covers-just got that one.
May 26, 2011 at 3:13 am
and “The Freewheelin'” was released today, 49 years ago..How time flies
May 26, 2011 at 10:11 am
sblake,
Nope, I can’t believe it has been 40 years. I bought that album-probably still have it in vinyl.
May 26, 2011 at 5:23 pm
50! years, Kat…Suddenly feel old….Sometimes you can do things in a compressed time.I wrote a no 1 hit in Australia in less than an hour way back in 1970.I really do not know how I did it and, to be honest, I wouldn’t be able to replicate it today.It’s just luck.
May 26, 2011 at 8:54 pm
sblake,
Evey day something betrays me and I feel old. Today it was sitting on the floor polishing-getting up just wasn’t easy. I don’t remember it that way!
May 27, 2011 at 9:13 pm
How can we send you a link to download George’s new EP?
We love Cisco Houston, and we noticed you posted one of his songs :]
May 27, 2011 at 9:20 pm
You can use yousendit and add the link to a comment or you could send it as a zip file or even e-mail to me as an attachment: katry@comcast.net