“The song came to me complete, full in the eyes like I’d been traveling on the garden pathway of the sun and just found it. It was illuminated. I’d seen a shooting star from the backyard of our house, or…
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Series of Dreams (1989) – Bob Dylan
I own the above single ‘for press release only’ CD. You could do worse considering Series of Dreams is arguably one of Bob Dylan’s greatest ‘non released’ songs. He left this ‘lost masterpiece’ off his critically acclaimed album Oh Mercy album, much…
Ring Them Bells (1989) – Bob Dylan
When I listened to Ring Them Bells growing up it cast me into visions of an Amish existence akin to that portrayed in the Peter Weir movie Witness. You know: fortress, bells, plows, cows, iron, valleys, willow and lilies. I…
Political World (1989) – Bob Dylan
“One night when everyone was asleep and I was sitting at the kitchen table, nothing on the hillside but a shiny bed of lights – all that changed. I wrote about twenty verses for a song called ‘Political World’ and…
Most of the Time (1989) – Bob Dylan
It is befitting Most of the Time is the first song to be presented from Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy record, because it is my favourite song from it. If the outtake Series of Dreams made it onto the record, then…
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