off_world_beings wrote: > "So he drifted down to New Orleans, lucky > enough to be destroyed..." > Who knows? Almost none of Bob's lyrics make any sense. From what I've read, Bob was in New Orleans for all of four hours only once in his whole life, back in 1963.
"...found a 66-year-old Dylan breathless, lovesick, and bent on revenge. Blood on the Tracks' "You're a Big Girl Now" became its corkscrew to the heart, while the crash-landing bounce of Blonde on Blonde's "Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)" had everybody holding on for dear life, including a barking, spitting, trilling Dylan, his voice all but totaled as he tried to keep up with the band and the crowd tried to keep up with him." Read more: Music Fest Live Shots: http://tinyurl.com/ysec7r Dylan Does Texas: http://tinyurl.com/2g7yuy Titles of interest: 'Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited' By Clinton Heylin Harper Paperbacks, 2003 'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan' By Howard Sounes Grove Press, 2002 'No Direction Home' By Robert Shelton Da Capo Press, 2003