aarrgho wrote: 
Check out:  www.scarletrivera.com

So many good Dylan songs yet this one seem to be played the most, shame as it's not his best by a long way. Low rating from me.

Where's Natalie Merchent when you really need her, what a god awful voice.

 Pyro wrote: 
I have to agree with this.  I did like "Oh, Mercy" with Lanois' production.

One of his best CDs, along with Blood on the Tracks....and I'm not a huge fan.

great song...  love it...

One of Dylan's Best!

Was he guilty?

I don't know, I wasn't there.

But if he was, it wasn't the first, nor will it be the last time the state framed a guilty man (happens all the time).

Either way, the guy spent nearly 20 years in the hole. Still more time than a lot of killers serve.

 Stefen wrote: 
Any time one of us is subject to unjustice, we all are subject to unjustice.
Non of us are free until everyone is free, I understand what that means now.
To think that just because someone is put in prison for something they didn't
do, and all of us aren't effected by that is pure fantasy.  I don't care who you are
you could be put in prison for something you didn't do, or maybe worse yet
I have to alter my behavior(have no dealings with black people or indian people)
so that I won't be a victim.  This not right wing or left wing ideas, it is the
simple truth!  But America has just changed, we still have a way to go, but
we are moving in the right direction.  We all live on this planet, we are all
different, and if we don't learn how to get along, we all suffer.   

 Stefen wrote:  
You've got each side's take immediately below your comment.  Left says it's wrong to execute an innocent man; Right says if they were executed, they were probably guilty of something so get over it.

 Rickvee wrote:  

Siting Wikipedia as a source for an argument doesn't give you a good start or firm foundation for any assertion.  More importantly; why the hell does Rubin Carter being a bad person have any bearing upon the fact that another black man was wrongfully convicted of a crime in America?  "Wrongly convicted or not"? O.K., by that logic any bad guy should be convicted and jailed because they aren't particularly nice human beings.  IMO Dylan is speaking to the recurring injustices that the Rubin Carter incident typfies in this county.

 lattalo wrote: 

For the life of me I cannot understand why Americans say they elected a black president. 
If this election had happened in an African country, would they say a white president
was elected? Obama is no more black than he is white. Everyone should be saying
they elected a bi-racial president.

Yeah...one of my favorites by Bob
Scarlet Rivera was the fiddler on that album....wonder what ever happened to her?

 MrGreg wrote: 

If he'd only stopped after this.

 Rickvee wrote: 
Rubin Carter did not commit this murder and he would have been a great fighter.
He was a victim of hate and racism, period!  I feel ashamed that this ever happened
in America.  But there is hope, we just elected a Black President!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  American is a land of hope again.

If only he'd collaborated more like he did with this.

 asbellem wrote: 
  Dylan is one of the best poets of our time.  The movie was very good as well.

I was a student at Dylan's own (sort of) U of M when this came out...listened to it over and over.  In my mind, the last great Dylan album.  I might be a sap, but the lyrics to "Sara" are still my favorite Dylan lines.  Check it out, all you great lovers!

I recall a film clip of this played live on the Rolling Thunder tour with Jim McGuinn on guitar and Joan Baez backing vocals. The band punched the chorus lines ferociously. "This is the story of a hurricane..." WHAM! Betcha it's somewhere on YouTube.

One of Bob's best, in my opinion

Very apropros...

Bill, you have a very cheeky sens of humor!

lemmoth wrote:

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Who the heck is Toni Childs?

Toni Childs' Website (click here)
Her Wikipedia entry (click here)

In 1988, for her album, Union, "Childs was nominated for two Grammy Awards � Best New Artist and Best Rock Vocal Performance (female). Her first national tour was opening for Bob Dylan."

(click here) for a listen (amateur video of track called Zimbabwe).

Can we at least agree that popularity and talent don't always go hand-in-hand?

JohnBauer wrote:

Oh, you're not even close. Eddy Vedder and Chad Kroeger make your list sound like All Bran salesmen.

JohnBauer wrote:

Three of these four are among my all-time favorites.
Three of these four were enormously influential.
Three of these four are in the rock hall of fame.
I could go on.

Who the heck is Toni (listenable) Childs

Odyzzeuz wrote:

It was? I thought Crazy Talk was singing at the casino.

No, he was a middleweight fighter and never won the title. At his peak he was a contender, but he lost the title fight by unanimous decision.

bugleboy624 wrote:

Love these kind of comments.

So, let's see, its 1962-63 and the 16 or 17 year old aspiring singer songwriter listens to a Bob Dylan album over at a friends house........

Rickvee wrote:

You get your information from wikipedia? Really? Remind me, is Dave Grohl dead again?