Congratulations to Bob Dylan on being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom! The honor is well-deserved due in no small part to songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” still asking the same hard questions 50 years later.
Scott Avett singing One More Night by Bob Dylan. Yes, please!
Can’t nobody touch him
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me
—Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
They shared the striped shirt.
—Granduncles of St. Lawrence County
here is the original demo for “Granduncles of St. Lawrence County”, a song off our upcoming double-album Eternity of Dimming. on the record, this song is full of swirling organs, drums, banjo, and slinky-vibrato electric guitar. here you can hear where the song started, in a hot musty cottage loft on the St. Lawrence Seaway, in summer, in the sparse North Country. (lyrics / download) :
Bob Dylan - The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar from Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco - November 15, 1980 with the ridiculous guitar playing of the late Mike Bloomfield
They tell you, ‘Time is money’ as if your life was worth its weight in gold.
—Bob Dylan
frontier ruckus / eternity of dimming: Sweetbread
(an Easter poem / by Matthew Milia)
The saucer orbits of Greek Easter
and Catholic Easter
clanked into alignment to share a calendar Sunday—
2011, but days ago.Maybe the same as when I was ten.
It was Yia Yia and the nightgown fastidiousness
stringing out and cleaning the tubular lamb tripe
for…
