{"id":582,"date":"2024-08-31T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-moody\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:38:07","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-moody\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Water High, Wide, Dirty, Troubled, Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bob Dylan, High Water<\/a>.  This is a late-career Dylan gem from Love and Theft<\/em> (2001). A tribute to Charley Patton.  Demonstrates Dylan's mastery of the arcana of Americana. Our greatest and deepest singer-songwriter. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My favorite verse:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew<\/span>
You can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view<\/span>
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway 5<\/span>
Judge says to the High Sheriff, "I want them dead or alive"<\/span>
Either one, I don't care, high water everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nosiree, Bob, you can't open up your mind to every conceivable point of view, especially when it's not dark yet<\/a>, but getting there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charley Patton, High Water Everywhere<\/a>.  Nice slide show.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Band, Up on Cripple Creek<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix, May This Be Love<\/a>.  Waterfall. I had forgotten the wonderful guitar solo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karla Bonoff, The Water is Wide<\/a>.  I listened to a lot of Bonoff in the early '80s.  She does a great job with this traditional song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, Banks of the Ohio<\/a>.  Joan Baez's version<\/a> from an obscure 1959 album, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similar theme though not water-related: Doc Watson, Tom Dooley<\/a>.  Doc and family in a BBC clip<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Standells, Dirty Water<\/a>.  Boston and the River Charles. My mecca in the '70s, the Athens of America, the Hub of the Universe, etc.  A great town to be young in.  But when it comes time to own property and pay taxes, then a right-thinking man high tails it for the West.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge over Troubled Water<\/a>.  A beautiful song.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Mancini, Moon River<\/a>.  This was Jack Kerouac's favorite song.  Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac <\/em>(St. Martin's 1998), p. 324:<\/span><\/p>\n

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One night he [Kerouac, during a 1962 visit to Lowell, Mass.] left a bar called Chuck's with Huck Finneral, a reedy, behatted eccentric who carried a business card that read: "Professional killer . . . virgins fixed . . . orgies organized, dinosaurs neutered, contracts & leases broken."  Huck's philosophy of life was: "Better a wise madness than a foolish sanity."  They drove to a friend's house in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and on the way, Jack sang "Moon River," calling it his favorite song.  Composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, "Moon River"<\/a> was the theme song <\/a>of the popular Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast at Tiffany's<\/em>.  Sobbed by a harmonica, later swelling with strings and chorus, the plaintive tune's gentle but epic-like lyrics describe a dreamer and roamer not unlike Kerouac.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed they do.  A restless dreamer, a lonesome traveller, a dharma seeker, a desolation angel passing through this vale of mist, a drifter on the river of samsara hoping one day to cross to the Far Shore.  Here<\/a> is another version of the tune, from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with some beautiful images.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doc Watson, Moody River<\/a>.  A moodier version than the Pat Boone hit <\/a>which was based on the Chase Webster<\/a> effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clever YouTube comment: "It might be a little early in the day for an Am7."  But this here's Saturday night and I'm working on my second wine spodiodi<\/a>. (Now you know where the Electric Flag<\/em>  version<\/a> came from.) Chords minor and melancholy go good 'long about now. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan, High Water.  This is a late-career Dylan gem from Love and Theft (2001). A tribute to Charley Patton.  Demonstrates Dylan's mastery of the arcana of Americana. Our greatest and deepest singer-songwriter.  My favorite verse: Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the JewYou can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Water High, Wide, Dirty, Troubled, Moody”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}