{"id":8917,"date":"2013-03-16T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-freewheelin-bob-dylan\/"},"modified":"2013-03-16T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T19:11:26","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-freewheelin-bob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-the-freewheelin-bob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Freewheelin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This, Dylan's second album, and one of my favorites, was released in May of 1963 by Columbia Records. Here are my favorites from the album.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Blowin' in the Wind<\/a>, with its understated topicality, enjoys an assured place in the Great American Songbook.  London Ed uploaded this Alanis Morissette version<\/a> which is one of the better covers.  Thanks, Ed!<\/span><\/p>\n

Girl from the North Country<\/a> Ah! it's even better than I remember it as being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Understated topicality also characterizes A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall<\/a>, written during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, lending it a timeless quality absent in a blatant 'finger-pointing' song such as Masters of War<\/em>.  The Baez version is probably the best of the covers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right<\/a> in the outstanding PP & M version.  Another permanent addition to musical Americana.  Said to be inspired by Suze Rotolo, the girl on the album cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan's Dream<\/a> in the PP & M rendition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oxford Town<\/a>.  About James Meredith<\/a>'s battle for admission to the University of Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her memoir, A Frewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties<\/em> (Broadway Books, 2008, p. 277-8), Suze Rotolo says this about her mother Mary Rotolo:<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I remember her informing me that the career army man an older cousin was married to had lost out on a promotion that involved security clearance because of my appearance on the cover of Bob's album.  I was astounded.<\/span><\/p>\n

True, the times they were troubled.  Protest against the escalating war in Vietnam was on the rise, draft cards were being burned, and colleges were erupting with discontent.  Blues, bluegrass, and ballads no longer defined folk music, since so many folksingers were now writing songs that spoke to current events.  Bob Dylan was labeled a "protest singer."  But the absurdity of my mother, Marxist Mary, trying to make me feel responsible for a military man's losing a security clearance because I am on an album cover with Bob Dylan, a rebel with a cause, left me speechless.  And that was all she said to me about the cover or the album in general. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This, Dylan's second album, and one of my favorites, was released in May of 1963 by Columbia Records. Here are my favorites from the album.  Blowin' in the Wind, with its understated topicality, enjoys an assured place in the Great American Songbook.  London Ed uploaded this Alanis Morissette version which is one of the better covers.  Thanks, Ed! … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917","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=8917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}