{"id":8954,"date":"2013-02-23T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-suze-rotolo-and-the-songs-she-inspired-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:48:45","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-suze-rotolo-and-the-songs-she-inspired-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-suze-rotolo-and-the-songs-she-inspired-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Suze Rotolo and the Songs She Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly, I missed the passing of Suze Rotolo<\/a> some two years ago.  She died on 25 February 2011 at 67 years of age. 'Dylanologists' usually refer to the following as songs she inspired:<\/span><\/p>\n

Don't Think Twice<\/a>.  This Peter, Paul and Mary rendition may well be the best.  It moves me as much as it did 50 years ago in 1963 when it first came out.  It was via this song that I discovered Dylan.  The 45 rpm record I had and still have showed one 'B. Dylan' as the song's author.  I pronounced it as 'Dial-in' and wondered who he was.  I soon found out.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Two Many Mornings<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow is a Long Time<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Boots of Spanish Leather<\/a>.  The wonderful Baez version<\/a>.  There is some irony, of course, in Baez's renditions of songs inspired by Rotolo: Dylan's affair with Baez was a factor in his break up with Rotolo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ballad in Plain 'D'<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally a song by Baez inspired by Dylan: Diamonds and Rust<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprisingly, I missed the passing of Suze Rotolo some two years ago.  She died on 25 February 2011 at 67 years of age. 'Dylanologists' usually refer to the following as songs she inspired: Don't Think Twice.  This Peter, Paul and Mary rendition may well be the best.  It moves me as much as it did … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Suze Rotolo and the Songs She Inspired”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}