Delolation Row

[Jon Ford]

Dian-- considering the song was written 36 or so years ago, probably at a 
time Dylan was generally stoned, his response to his early work,
no matter how much we may still like it,his current response is fairly 
unremarkable. To see how far he's travelled since those days, check out his 
recent "Love and Theft"-- he may sing the oldies still, but his recent songs 
are clearly those of a 60 year old, and they give me
a lift in a weird sort of way--I can identify with them in the "now." He's 
not trying to be 20 something any more, like so many aging rockers.

Jon



>From: meadow <meadow@austin.rr.com>
>Reply-To: meadow@austin.rr.com
>To: Jim Strong <strongjim@yahoo.com>
>CC: Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>, austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: Delolation Row
>Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:18:43 -0600
>
>someone just last night relayed that Dylan said, recently, "what kind of
>mind could have written that?" in befuddlement over where he was at,
>coming from, high on etc., when he wrote that song, in amazement and
>puzzlement at his own profuse output over those years, of that
>particular song.
>
>Jim Strong wrote:
>
> > --- Jon Ford <jonmfordster@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > I like to think that Stevens wouldn't have cared
> > > much for our present
> > > moralistic leaders in the Bush camp--
> > -- quoting the Stevens poem --
> > [A High Toned Old Christian Woman]
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > REPLY:
> > Dunno Fordster, I'm thinking maybe Desolation Row says
> > it even better? I mean the first stanza seems to be
> > what's happening now, after all ...
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > "They're selling postcards of the hanging
> > They're painting the passports brown
> > The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
> > The circus is in town
> > Here comes the blind commissioner
> > They've got him in a trance
> > One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
> > The other is in his pants
> > And the riot squad they're restless
> > They need somewhere to go
> > As Lady and I look out tonight
> > >From Desolation Row"
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > The rest of DR follows at:
> > http://bobdylan.com/songs/desolation.html
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Billy Jim
> > -------------
> >
> > =====
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