![]() Is it Perhaps it’s the colour of the sun cut flatĪn’ cov’rin’ the crossroads I’m standing at It is very odd.Īs for the lyrics, who is to say where one line ends and the next starts. And we might hear that these changes are not even consistent through the song – lines that include a three beat bar suddenly become straightforward four beats. If we go back to the version on Bootleg Series volumes 1 to 3 what we find is a plaintive song with endless unexpected chord changes plus time changes and missing beats. ![]() I don’t believe you (She acts like we never have met)Īnd if you were to look at the full list for the year you’d probably include several more as being worthy of inclusion in the great list.īut “Mama” stands out, for as I have written here before, if ever there is a Dylan song in which, to understand it, you need to listen to the music not just the lyrics, this is it.So again here – probably everyone reading this site knows the song, but maybe you’ve not yet found some of the magnificent versions that are on offer.īut what can I say by way of introduction, except “Oh 1964: what a year!” Dylan cut his writing down after 67 songs written across the previous two years he now limited himself to a mere 20 completed works in 1964, but less we think he was losing his touch it might be worth remembering that this year included I’m taking this approach liberally – as was evident I hope with the first track (Angelina) in which most people only know one version of the song but maybe don’t see the possibilities beyond that. The idea of this little series is to create an album of some of the more obscure Dylan works that really ought to be known better than they are.
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