Not to mention resistance and defiance in these waning days of a great republic.
Great minds on "All men are created equal."
Johnny Cash, I Won't Back Down. Tom Petty wrote it, with Jeff Lynne.
Byrds, Chimes of Freedom. One of Dylan's greatest anthems.
Byrds, I Wasn't Born to Follow
Good YouTuber comment: "I keep searching for that door back into the summer of '69, I lost it somewhere long ago."
Tim Hardin, A Simple Song of Freedom
Crystals, He's a Rebel
Phil Spector at the top of his game. We avert our eyes from the later 'developments.'
Albert Camus version: You'll enjoy it. If you don't, you are not MavPhil material.
Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, tr. A. Bower, Vintage 1991, p. 15, French original published by Gallimard in 1951:
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Good advice if one can take it without false heroism and existentialist hyperventilation.
Rascals, People Got to be Free
Bob Dylan, I Shall Be Free. This is the first time I've heard this particular delightful 1962 outtake which varies from the 1963 Freewheelin' version. A real period piece in the style of Woody Guthrie with appearances by Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, John F. Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean's great granddaughter, fallout shelters, air raid drills, . . . .
Young Bob in 1962 is at the beginning of his life-long deep dive into musical Americana, into the soul of the land and its people. And he is still at it: appropriating, renewing, interpreting. David Remnick's outstanding October 2022 New Yorker essay lays it all out for you: A Unified Theory of Bob Dylan.
Cream, I Feel Free
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