Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

[filkertom]

On this date in 1941.

Let's have an all-Dylan playlist today. I'll start it off with "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

(And, at some point today, our mythical radio station will play "Traditional Folksinger's Lament" by Eric Bogle.)

Comments

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

There are actually three sets of lyrics (that I can think of offhand) to that song; all of them were pretty much improvised, or anyway, they were supposed to sound like they were.

[sazettel.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding that it was not unusual for the band to spend most of a session standing around waiting for Dylan to finish making up the song.

Even so, that's a weird placeholder of a lyric.

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

There's a fun bootleg from the session in which the lyrics of that song are all about telling someone that they have to stay home to feed the cat. My favorite line from that version is "I don't care if your name is Michael, you're gonna need some boards." All the lyrics are collected here (http://homepage.mac.com/danielmartin/Dylan/html/songs/Y/YouAintGoinNowhere.html).