Why Bob Dylan Matters
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Don’t Look Back (film), 72, 148
“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (song), 67, 140–41, 146, 277, 278, 281
Douglas, Kirk, 54
“Drunken Boat, The” (Rimbaud), 153–54
Duluth National Guard Armory, 120, 231
“Duquesne Whistle” (song), 190, 279, 306
“Dusty Sweatbox Blues” (original title of “Tangled Up in Blue”), 218–19
Dylan, Bob
acoustic-to-electric transition, 9, 21–22, 38–39, 167, 216, 290
acting by, 42, 55, 89, 108, 228
the art of the song and, 25
birth of, 42
childhood home of, 46–47
Christian phase, 39, 70–71, 81, 84, 88–89, 97, 120, 128, 161–62, 285–86
continuing evolution of music, 31–32, 37–40
creative methodology of, 211–16
fans and, 284–90
Greek influences (see Greece (ancient))
high school of (see Hibbing High)
historical and contemporary elements in music of, 121–22, 126
home town of (see Hibbing, MN)
honorary degree from Princeton, 24
intergenerational appeal of, 8, 10–11
intertextuality in works (see Intertextuality)
interviews and press conferences of, 119–27
metal sculpture of, 108, 228
Nobel Prize awarded to (see Nobel Prize in Literature)
in performance, 267–90
public reactions to new music of, 23–24, 38–39
real name of, 42, 70
Roman influences (see Rome)
setlists, 28, 92–94, 165–66, 278–79
tags created by, 208
teaching as an ambition of, 52, 129
touring discontinued by, 24
transfiguration and (see Transfiguration)
works
“Absolutely Sweet Marie,” 163
“Ain’t Talkin’”, 56–57, 93, 233, 240, 243, 244
“All Along the Watchtower,” 8, 279
Another Side of Bob Dylan, 155, 213
“Ballad of a Thin Man,” 282–83
“The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” 303
The Basement Tapes, 31
“Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, 241, 278
“Beyond the Horizon,” 233
Biograph, 50, 218
“Blind Willie McTell,” 303
Blonde on Blonde, 1, 22–23, 30, 31, 146, 166, 227
Blood on the Tracks (see Blood on the Tracks)
“Blowin’ in the Wind” (see “Blowin’ in the Wind”)
Bob Dylan: Lyrics: 1961–2001, 83
Bob Dylan: The Lyrics: 1961–2012, 83, 143, 183, 195, 209, 255–56
“Bob Dylan’s Dream,” 79, 141–43
The Bootleg Series (see Bootleg Series works)
“Boots of Spanish Leather,” 67–68, 93, 94, 248–49
Bringing It All Back Home, 23, 290
“Bye and Bye,” 187, 202, 237
“California Brown-Eyed Baby,” 138–40
“Changing of the Guards,” 38, 80–84, 98
“Chimes of Freedom,” 155–60, 214–15
Christmas in the Heart, 161–62
Chronicles: Volume One (see Chronicles: Volume One)
“Cold Irons Bound,” 251
Desire, 37, 184, 218, 227, 228
“Desolation Row,” 15–16, 100, 185, 215–16, 277, 279, 305
“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” 67, 140–41, 146, 277, 278, 281
“Duquesne Whistle,” 190, 279, 306
“Early Roman Kings,” 14, 89–91, 204, 257, 273, 277, 303
The Essential Bob Dylan, 278
“Every Grain of Sand,” 93
Fallen Angels, 273, 278, 279
“Floater (Too Much To Ask),” 43, 48, 196
“Forgetful Heart,” 119, 252
“Fourth Time Around,” 146–47, 148
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 19, 23, 66–67, 278, 296
“Girl of the North Country,” 67, 94, 250
“Goin’ Back to Rome,” 41, 54, 68–70, 72, 78, 125
Good As I Been To You, 162, 232
“Handy, Dandy,” 286
“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” 149, 155, 174, 296–301, 303
“Highlands,” 176–87, 238, 286, 323
“High Water Rising,” 174, 277, 279, 289
Highway 61 Revisited, 23, 278, 279
“Highway 61 Revisited,” 9, 277, 278
“Honest with Me,” 93, 202
“Hurricane,” 303
“Idiot Wind,” 5–6, 34, 72, 73–74, 218, 222–24, 250
“I Don’t Believe You,” 93
“If You See Her, Say Hello,” 34, 35–37, 60, 252
“I’ll Remember You,” 151
Infidels, 286
“Isis,” 250–51
“Is Your Love in Vain,” 38
“It Ain’t Me, Babe,” 22, 93, 281
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” 148
“It’s Alright, Ma,” 163
“I Want You,” 59
“Joey,” 303
John Wesley Harding, 31, 161, 227
“Kingsport Town,” 143–46
“Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,” 93
“Like a Rolling Stone,” 93, 272
Live at the Gaslight 1962, 86
“Lonesome Day Blues,” 7, 77–78, 194–202, 238, 273
“Long Ago, Far Away,” 70–72
“Long and Wasted Years,” 278, 279
“Love and Theft” (see “Love and Theft”)
“Love Sick,” 64, 168, 188, 279
“Maggie’s Farm,” 290
“Make You Feel My Love,” 189, 206–7
“Man in the Long Black Coat,” 93
“Man of Constant Sorrow,” 70
“Masters of War,” 23, 28–29, 133–35, 319
“Meet Me in the Morning,” 35, 224–25
“Million Miles,” 188
“Mississippi,” 225, 262, 284, 309
Modern Times (see Modern Times)
“Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine),” 93
“Most of the Time,” 251
“Mr. Tambourine Man,” 22, 153–54, 155
“My Wife’s Home Town,” 251
“Narrow Way,” 259
Nashville Skyline, 31, 32, 285
“Nettie Moore,” 232–33, 248
New Morning, 32
“North Country Blues,” 47–49
“Not Dark Yet,” 44, 187–88, 230
“Obviously Five Believers,” 163
“One Too Many Mornings,” 67
“Only a Pawn in Their Game,” 21
“Pay in Blood,” 254, 259, 264–65, 277, 278, 303
“Po’ Boy,” 268
“Positively 4th Street,” 93, 163
“Queen Jane Approximately,” 93, 163
“Red River Shore,” 252
“Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” 93, 227, 242
“Roll on, John,” 164
“Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” 30, 185
“Sara,” 73, 218, 220, 252
“Scarlet Town,” 86–89
Self Portrait, 31–32
“Señor,” 38
Shadows in the Night, 58, 241, 270, 271, 273, 278, 279, 283
“Shelter from the Storm,” 55–56
“Shooting Star,” 252
Shot of Love, 285–86
“Simple Twist of Fate,” 33, 34, 35, 231, 277, 279, 281
Slow Train Coming, 84
“Soon After Midnight,” 85, 243, 278, 279
“Standing in the Doorway,” 188
Street Legal, 37–38, 80
“Sugar Baby,” 267
“Tangled Up in Blue” (see “Tangled Up in Blue”)
Tempest (see Tempest)
“Tempest,” 85–86, 116–17, 185
“Things Have Changed,” 278, 281–83
“Thunder on the Mountain,” 238–39
“‘Til I Fell in Love with You,” 64, 189, 251
Time Out of Mind (see Time Out of Mind)
The Times They Are A-Changin’, 21, 47, 283
“Tin Angel,” 85, 258, 259, 314
Together Through Life, 93, 164, 241, 252, 278, 306
“Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” 67
“To Ramona,” 281
Triplicate, 127, 260, 270, 272, 273, 275–76, 279
“Tryin’ to Get to Heaven,” 168–75, 199, 251, 319
Under the Red Sky, 6, 227, 286
“Under the Red Sky,” 93, 286
“Up to Me,” 218
“Visions of Johanna,” 30, 33
“When He Returns,” 286
“When I Paint My Masterpiece,” 72–74, 75, 77–80, 88, 93
“When the Deal Goes Down,” 93, 229–31, 234–35
“When the Ship Comes In,” 21
“Wiggle Wiggle,” 286
“Workingman’s Blues #2,” 222, 229, 239, 240, 244, 246–48, 251, 255–56, 260
World Gone Wrong, 162
“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” 30, 151
Dylan, Sara (wife of Dylan), 24, 32, 59, 72–74, 78, 97
“Sara,” Dylan’s song about, 73, 218, 220, 252
marital problems and divorce, 30, 35, 37, 60, 74, 151
as a Playboy Bunny, 110, 184, 220
“Early Roman Kings” (song), 14, 89–91, 204, 257, 273, 277, 303
Early Years, The (Guthrie album), 137
Eclogues (Virgil), 13, 83–84, 191, 206
Eisenhower, Dwight, 318
Eliot, T. S., 9, 118, 153, 208, 211
on borrowing and stealing by poets, 193, 204, 235, 243–44
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 16, 305–6
Nobel Prize awarded to, 14–16, 209
“Philip Massinger,” 193
The Waste Land, 15
“What Is a Classic?”, 14–16, 209–10
Engdahl, Horace, 291, 294–96
Essential Bob Dylan, The (album), 278
Essential Interviews, The (Cott), 27
Euripides, 288
“Everybody Loves Somebody Some Time” (song), 269
“Every Grain of Sand” (song), 93
Exile poetry of Ovid, 238–48, 253
Expectingrain.com, 196, 287
Fagles, Robert, 14, 132, 256
Fairport Convention, 134
Fallen Angels (album), 273, 278, 279
Fans, 284–90
Fear of Flying (Jong), 185
Fell, Cliff, 239–41
Ferry, David, 237
Firefly Music Festival, 280
Fitzpatrick, M. J., 156, 276
Flanagan, Bill, 127, 260, 321–22
“Floater (Too Much to Ask)” (song), 43, 48, 196
Folk music, 38, 57, 134, 136, 162, 248
Folk-rock music, 23, 31
Folkstudio (Rome club), 66–67, 70
“Forgetful Heart” (song), 119, 252
Foster, Jodie, 108
“Fourth Time Around” (song), 146–47, 148
“Frankie and Albert” (song), 232, 314
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The (album), 19, 23, 66–67, 278, 296. See also individual songs
Freewheelin’ Time, A (Rotolo), 108–9, 149
Fricke, David, 270
“Full Moon and Empty Arms” (song), 277, 278
Gainsbourg, Charlotte, 59
Garcia, Jerry, 306
Gaslight Cafe, 86, 177
Gaucho (album), 163
“Genius and Modern Times of Bob Dylan, The” (Lethem), 123
“Gentle Nettie Moore” (song), 232
George Kaiser Family Foundation, 216
Georgics (Virgil), 189–90, 211
Gerde’s Folk City, 21, 23, 69
Gilmore, Michael J., 162
Gilmore, Mikal, 86, 121–22, 124–27, 164–67, 178, 201–2, 204, 242–43
Ginsberg, Allen, 152, 153, 292–93
“Girl of the North Country” (song), 67, 94, 250
Gitlin, Todd, 23
Glover, Tony, 70
“Goin’ Back to Rome” (song), 41, 54, 68–70, 72, 78, 125
“Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” (song), 172
“Golden Chain” (song), 170
Gooch, Ray, 101–10, 114–15, 116, 118–19, 124, 127, 129, 244
Good As I Been To You (album), 162, 232
Grateful Dead, 306
Graves, Robert, 114
Gray, Michael, 41, 319–20
Great American Songbook, 58, 92, 190, 241, 252, 268–74, 278, 283, 322. See also “Covering” of songs
Greece (ancient), 1, 2, 5, 17, 58, 84, 112–15, 125, 127–28, 144, 288, 308. See also individual poets
Green, Peter, 239, 244, 246, 252
Greene, Andy, 98–99
Greenwich Village, 49, 50, 54, 57, 86
Grossman, Albert, 213
Guardian, 291
Gunderson, Edna, 302–3
Guthrie, Woody, 50, 167, 295
Bound for Glory (book), 136, 231
“Bound for Glory,” 173
The Early Years, 137
“Going Down the Road Feeling Bad,” 172
“Gypsy Davy,” 85
“Hard Travelling,” 170
“Jesus Christ,” 71
“Pastures of Plenty,” 136
“Poor Boy,” 171
“This Land Is Your Land,” 136
“Who’s Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet,” 143–45
“Gypsy Davy” (song), 85
Hadrian’s Wall, 208
Halcyon Gallery, 108
Haldeman, H. R., 62
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 56
Hammond, John, 96, 118, 131
“Handy, Dandy” (song), 286
Hanson, Curtis, 282
Hansson, Thors Hans, 298–99
Hard Rain (TV movie), 40
“Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, A” (song), 149, 155, 174, 296–301, 303
“Hard Travelling” (song), 170
Hardy, Thomas, 44
Harrison, Rex, 61
HART (Halt All Racist Tours), 20
Harvard University, 8–11, 37, 217
Hawks, 290
Haynes, Todd, 59
Heaney, Seamus, 205
Helen of Troy (film), 53
“Hellhound on My Trail” (song), 232
Hell’s Angel (Barger, Zimmerman and Zimmerman), 124–25
Helmerich Center for American Research (University of Tulsa), 216
Helstrom, Echo Star, 231
Hematite (Hibbing High yearbook), 49–50
Hentoff, Nat, 213
Herron, Donnie, 271–72, 273
Hesiod, 116
Heylin, Clinton, 79, 98–99, 180–81, 275, 319, 320
Hibbing, MN, 42–49, 79–80
Hibbing High, 44–46, 89, 109–10, 111. See also Latin Club (Hibbing High)
Hibbing Hi Times, 51, 109
“Highlands” (song), 176–87, 238, 286, 323
“High Water Rising (For Charley Patton)” (song), 174, 277, 279, 289
Highway 61 Revisited (album), 23, 278, 279. See also individual songs
“Highway 61 Revisited” (song), 9, 277, 278
Highway 61 Revisited: Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World (symposium), 41–42
Hilburn, Robert, 161
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), 112–14
Holly, Buddy, 120, 231, 312
Homer, 2, 14, 91, 98, 116, 122, 124, 132–33, 164, 197, 203–4, 205, 242, 270, 273, 302–4, 311, 322. See also Odyssey
“Honest with Me” (song), 93, 202
Hootie & the Blowfish, 134
Hopkins, Lightnin’, 29–30
Hopper, Dennis, 108
Horace, 2, 4, 21, 236–38
House, Son, 29
“House of the Rising Sun” (song), 175
House Un-American Activities Committee, 53
“How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky)?” (so
ng), 269
Hunter, Robert, 190, 252, 306
“Hurricane” (song), 303
I, Claudius (Graves), 114
“I Could Have Told You” (song), 278, 279
Ides of March, 56, 61, 103
“Idiot Wind” (song), 5–6, 34, 72, 73–74, 218, 222–24, 250
“I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)” (song), 93
“If I Lose, Let Me Lose” (song), 138
“If You See Her, Say Hello” (song), 34, 35–37, 60, 252
“I’ll Remember You” (song), 151
I’m Not There (film), 59
Indrebø, Reidar, 292
Infidels (album), 286
Intertextuality, 131–60, 161–63, 164, 176–79, 187, 193–204. See also Transfiguration; individual artists and works
biblical, 161–62, 174–75, 244
competitive, 146–48
defined, 131
Dylan’s explanation of, 166–67, 321–22
Dylan’s legal dispute over, 135–36
Eliot on, 193, 204, 235, 243–44
plagiarism distinguished from, 131–32
Iraq wars, 5, 29, 113–14, 289
“Isis” (song), 250–51
“Is Your Love in Vain” (song), 38
“It Ain’t Me, Babe” (song), 22, 93, 281
“Ithaca” (Cavafy), 263
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (song), 148
“It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” (song), 163
“I Want You” (song), 59
Japan, 198, 199, 202
Jenkins, Larry, 217
Jerry Garcia Band, 269
Jesus Christ, 55, 56, 70–71, 89
“Jesus Christ” (song), 71
“Joey” (song), 303
Johansson, Scarlett, 230–31
John, Elton, 284
Johnson, Chris, 196
Johnson, Pete, 269
Johnson, Robert, 232
“John the Revelator” (song), 170
John Wesley Harding (album), 31, 161, 227
Jong, Erica, 185
Julius Caesar (film), 53
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 254
Jupiter’s Darling (film), 53
Juvenal, 85–86, 91
“Kaddish” (Ginsberg), 153
Kaiser, George, 217
Kemper, David, 269, 271
Kiel, Chloe, 101–10, 118–19
Kimball, Stu, 268
King, B. B., 29
King, Stephen, 293
King of Kings (film), 54, 55, 127
“Kingsport Town” (song), 143–46
Kubrick, Stanley, 54
“Lady Franklin’s Lament” (ballad), 142–43
Lanois, Daniel, 168
Last Days of Pompeii (film), 122
Latin (language), 49, 62–63, 67, 122
Latin Club (Hibbing High), 50–52, 55, 56, 57, 62, 67, 80, 122
Leadbelly, 136, 312
Ledger, Heath, 59
Lee, C. P., 41
Leeds Music Publishing, 96
Leigh, Carolyn, 269