BOB DYLAN BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME 1965

by Ethan Russell

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It seems as though every album – from every artist – is a major creative leap further. In 1965 Bob Dylan releases Bringing It All Back Home. He’s on the cover with an unnamed woman in a red dress; he’s holding a cat and looking like the head of SPECTRE in a James Bond movie. When I get the record home, I rip the shrink wrap off and put the needle in the groove. Right away it’s obvious something very bizarre is up: drums, electric guitar, and Dylan sings the words speeding out of his mouth, cascading: “Johnny’s-in-the-basement-mixing-up-the-medicine / I’m on-the-pavement-thinking-about-the-govemment/Man-in-a-trenchcoat-badge-out-laid-off / Say’s-he’s-got-a-bad-cough-wants-to-get-paid-off / Look-out-kids-it’s-something-you-did / God-knows-when-but-you’re doing-it-again / you’d-better-duck-down-the-alleyway-looking-for-a-new-friend / Man-in-a-coonskin-cap-and-a-pig-pen-wants-eleven-dollar-bills/you-only-got-ten.”
(FROM AN AMERICAN STORY)

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