![]() Without restraint, as we first heard on bootlegs and from 2014 officially on The Basement Tapes Complete Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Bob Nolan, Hank Williams, Porter Wagoner, Dallas Frazier, Bobby Bare… half the premier league of the Billboard’s Hot Country Charts passes by. ![]() With accompanying soundtrack: “In this room the heat pipes just cough / The country music station plays soft.” At the time, in 1965-66, this may have been difficult to reconcile with the image of the über-cool hipcat Dylan, but by now we have long known that the love for country music is deep and sincere – and that this description of the setting is most likely a truthful picture of what goes on around here.Īfter Blonde On Blonde, and after the motorcycle accident (29 July 1966) that marked a long goodbye to the public, Dylan professes his country love anonymously and unheard with his mates from The Band in Woodstock, in the basement of the Big Pink. Songs, or at least parts of songs on the Holy Trinity Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde indeed do suggest impressionism, seem to sketchily express the impressions the young rock poet has to deal with, in this thin wild mercury, tumultuous period of his life.įor the setting of “Visions Of Johanna”, for example, the poet seems to sketch a picture of his temporary residence, Room 211 of the Chelsea Hotel. ![]() At the beginning of 1965, Dylan declares in the liner notes to Bringing It All Back Home: “I am about t sketch You a picture of what goes on around here sometimes,” and he seems to keep that promise, in the next five hundred days, in this mercurial period. ![]()
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