https://youtu.be/npsB1xWh5hA?list=RDnpsB1xWh5hA
North Country Blues Bob Dylan
“Come gather ’round friends And I’ll tell you a tale”
Bob Dylans’ ideas and music are essential…
“The summer is gone The ground’s turning cold
The stores one by one they’re a-foldin’
My children will go As soon as they grow Well, there ain’t nothing here now to hold them”
What would Bob Dylan say about genocide?
“Neighborhood Bully
Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
’Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothing, they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits for feed
He’s the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully.”
https://youtu.be/-ETdLfXI6r8?list=RD-ETdLfXI6r8
Bob Dylan – Neighborhood Bully (Official Audio)
We can only guess…
https://youtu.be/RZgBhyU4IvQ?list=RD-ETdLfXI6r8
Bob Dylan – Not Dark Yet (Official HD Video)
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman (or to give him his Hebrew name: Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) to, by all accounts, a fairly observant Jewish family, Dylan had a decidedly Jewish upbringing as part of the tight-knit, small Jewish communities of Duluth and Hibbing, Minnesota, growing up in a kosher home and even attending the religious-Zionist summer camp, Camp Herzl.
Some of Bob Dylan’s poetic insights:
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.”
“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure.”
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
“Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it when you find it.”
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules.
Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”
“And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”
“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”
“All I can be is me — whoever that is.”
“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.”
https://youtu.be/j9DZeXLE4a8
LOUIE KEMP – “DYLAN & ME: 50 YEARS OF ADVENTURES”
Oh, God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”
Abe said, “Man, you must be puttin’ me on”
God say, “No.”
Abe say, “What?”
God say, “You can do what you want, Abe, but
The next time you see me comin’ you better run”
Well, Abe said, “Where you want this killin’ done?”
https://youtu.be/LjadkOCGecI
Bob Dylan – Highway 61,
Sept 16th 2000, Aberdeen Scotland
“For many, these words may be unfamiliar, but readers of a certain age sing this song in their head when they read the lyrics to “Highway 61 Revisited”, the title song from Bob Dylan’s groundbreaking 1965 album.”
https://aish.com/bob-dylan-and-the-philosophy-of-modern-song/
“As so often with Dylan, the song is equal parts provocative, incendiary, mystifying, thought-provoking, and quite silly. But if we pay attention, we can appreciate that this nice Jewish boy from Duluth raises some profound theological questions. And so would anyone that picks up the Bible. After all, how could Abraham actually go through with the commandment to sacrifice his own son? It’s almost inconceivable.”
https://youtu.be/OeP4FFr88SQ?list=RDOeP4FFr88SQ
Mr. Tambourine Man (Live at the Newport Folk Festival. 1964)
Truth and Lies… | RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2024/05/30/truth-and-lies/
May 30, 2024 — Truth and Lies…
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
~Bob Dylan.
https://youtu.be/ml5K4BgrcaQ?list=RDml5K4BgrcaQ
Derek and the Dominos – Tell the Truth
Dream blues | RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2017/11/03/dream-blues/
Nov 3, 2017 —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFEe4eMBb3s&list=RDQFEe4eMBb3s&t=64
Bob Dylan – Talkin’ World War III Blues
“I’ll let you be in my dream if you’ll let me be in your dream! I said that!”
Robert Allen Zimmerman
Subterranean Blues Dreams… – RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2019/12/15/subterranean-blues-dreams/
Dec 15, 2019 —
https://youtu.be/AavGb57oWN0?list=RDAavGb57oWN0
“Orders from the D.A. Look out kid
Don’t matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don’t tie no bows
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”
Robert provided commentary about
corporate-American wars and while he
did not want to speak for a generation,
his music spoke volumes….
about choices we make and the possibilty
of investing in peace, people
and a healing planet…
Because we have no choice.
https://thepeaceresource.com/2019/05/28/power-peace-people-and-planet/
“Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.”
~Nina Simone
Subterranean Blues Dreams…
In subterranean homesick blues…. distracted and confused by publications, investigations, ramifications, 
prognostications, altercations and dozens of expanding wars costing trillions, killing millions and making planet Earth demonstrably less secure.
This isn’t about isms. This is about survival.
https://youtu.be/AavGb57oWN0?list=RDAavGb57oWN0
Dreams… – RevolutionResource.org
https://youtu.be/DpvFjwoA_xo?list=RDDpvFjwoA_xo
https://revolutionresource.org/2019/01/10/dreams/
Jan 10, 2019 — “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
wtmd.org
Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
https://youtu.be/2Bjyu_h_7os?list=RD2Bjyu_h_7os
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan’s Dream
Leon Redbone Tribute |RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2024/04/25/leon-redbone-tribute/
Apr 25, 2024 —
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
~ Norman Maclean
https://youtu.be/_xRlojtDdEs?list=RD_xRlojtDdEs
Bob Dylan – Watching the River Flow
“While living in Canada in the late 1960s, Leon Redbone began performing in public at Toronto area nightclubs and folk music festivals. He met Bob Dylan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1972. Dylan was so impressed by Redbone’s performance that he mentioned it in a Rolling Stone interview, leading that magazine to do a feature article on Redbone a year before he had a recording contract. The article described his performances as “so authentic you can hear the surface noise [of an old 78 rpm].” Dylan said that if he had ever started a label, he would have signed Redbone. “
Dog spelled backwards… – RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2022/08/29/dog-spelled-backwards/
Aug 29, 2022 —
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
~Groucho Marx
https://youtu.be/gjB9ESps4GA?list=RDgjB9ESps4GA
Bob Dylan 2000 – Tombstone Blues
War News is Not Good.. – RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2022/05/23/war-news-is-not-good/
May 23, 2022 — https://youtu.be/yrekIlj-Dxk?list=RDyrekIlj-Dxk
Bob Dylan – Talkin’ World War III Blues (Live in England, 1965)
And the truth will… – RevolutionResource.org
https://revolutionresource.org/2015/04/21/and-the-truth-will/
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
― Bob Dylan,
Death may be one of the greatest human blessings. ~00
Feb 26, 2015 —
“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.” ~Bob Dylan
Dylan – Peace, Justice, Freedom – ThePeaceresource.com
https://thepeaceresource.com/2024/06/08/bob-dylan-1961-2024/
“On August 2nd, 1962, civilisation would change forever when a 21-year-old Minnesotan called Robert Allen Zimmerman would make the decision to be now known as Bob Dylan. It may have felt like a small moment at the time, but little did he know, it would soon become a significant action in the history of music.”
https://youtu.be/VFWQaLUNEdA
Bob Dylan – Talkin’ World War III Blues (LIVE FOOTAGE 1964)
“Zimmerman’s bold decision to change his name to Bob Dylan wasn’t the first time he had performed under an alias. The growing folkie first gained a notable reputation whilst going by the name of Elston Gunn as well as variations on his birth name such as Robert Allen. However, it was on Bob Dylan that he would eventually settle.”
https://youtu.be/8TMSLBy8c9w
Bob Dylan Back on guitar with The Heartbreakers 23.09.2023
.Tag: Dylan – Peace, Justice, Freedom
Highway 61
https://thepeaceresource.com/2024/05/04/highway-61/
“Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light, he says hmm you’re right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61″
Suze Rotolo – ThePeaceresource.com
https://thepeaceresource.com/2025/01/23/suze-rotolo/
Jan 23, 2025 — Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011), known as Suze Rotolo (/ˈsuːziː/ SOO-zee),[2] was an American artist, widely known as Bob Dylan’s girlfriend from 1961 to 1964. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Together they had one son, Luca, who is a guitarist in New York.
Tag: freedom civil rights – ThePeaceresource.com
https://thepeaceresource.com/2023/10/29/darkness-at-the-break-of-dawn/
Darkness at the break of noon…
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
“While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked”
https://youtu.be/0rs3jCuC1Jw
Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin (FULL ALBUM) Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011) …
Nov 2, 2019 — We can surrender to fear, war, hate, violence, injustice and inequity. And we have failed. Or we can refuse to surrender. We have the power.
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John Coltrane playing the amazing Blue train
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone Lee Morgan – trumpet Curtis Fuller –
Feb. 25, 1964 – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 22, was the guest tonight on The New Steve Allen Show. After a brief interview, Dylan performed his song, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.” The song was released on his latest album, “The Times They Are a-Changin,’” and gives a generally factual account of the slaying of a 51-year-old barmaid, Hattie Carroll, by William Zantzinger, a young man from a wealthy white tobacco farming family in Charles County, Maryland, and of his subsequent sentence to six months in a county jail.
