That I now realise Oh Mercy was an exercise in trying to recapture the complexion of Blind Willie McTell ten times only heightens my contempt for that album.Īlso, there are incrementally fewer songs on each of these volumes, but each discs run-time comes in just over the 75-minute mark.
The untainted Dylan, champion of youth, teller of the deluge, Guthrie wannabe, must have known the inevitability, for these very propensities and his times prescribed it: there could be no more Guthries to be like once American capitalism had made devils of fallen union men and took its warfare into the minds of the wretched survivors, stealing the economies, perverting the identities that simultaneously oppressed and radicalised them, til only the young and unlearned remained alive enough to shout their callow freedom There can be no more Ciscos and Sonnys and Leadbellys too when ageing is a sentence in marketplace pragmatism and global crises are something from which finance and euphemism shelter your offspring and no one elses, fuck knows they couldnt possibly be something thats happening to you.īauldie further records speculation as to why Dylan left the song off Infidels. Lord Protect My Child, of course, is blathering didactic discharge contextualisesd by the disfiguring mole on Dylans soft, velvety cheeks and volume three amounts to a sad document of the man-as-production-lines decline and flirtation with the forfeiture of humanity that tends to reduce punchdrunk celebrity bohemians to serenading their own fucking faith, born again president-style. While parents will always be understandably anxious about their childrens future in the face of increasing global problems and crises, this song implies a strongly held faith that all will be well. 1.1 Hard Times in New York Town 1.2 He Was a Friend of Mine 1.3 Man on the Street 1.4 No More Auction Block 1.5 House Carpenter 1.6 Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic/Massacre Blues 1.7 Let Me Die in My Footsteps 1.8 Rambling, Gambling Willie 1.9 Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues 1.10 Quit Your Low Down Ways 1.11 Worried Blues 1.12 Kingsport Town 1.13 Walkin' Down the Line 1.14 Walls of Red Wing 1.15 Paths of Victory 1.16 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues 1.17 Who Killed Davey Moore? 1.18 Only a Hobo 1.19 Moonshiner 1.20 When the Ship Comes in 1.21 The Times They Are A-Changin' 1.22 Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie 2.1 Seven Curses 2.2 Eternal Circle 2.3 Suze (The Cough Song) 2.4 Mama, You Been on My Mind 2.5 Farewell, Angelina 2.6 Subterranean Homesick Blues 2.7 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got to Stay All Night) 2.8 Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence 2.9 Like a Rolling Stone 2.10 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 2.11 I'll Keep It with Mine 2.12 She's Your Lover Now 2.13 I Shall Be Released 2.14 Santa-Fe 2.15 If Not for You 2.16 Wallflower 2.17 Nobody 'Cept You 2.18 Tangled Up in Blue 2.19 Call Letter Blues 2.20 Idiot Wind 3.1 If You See Her, Say Hello 3.2 Golden Loom 3.3 Catfish 3.4 Seven Days 3.5 Ye Shall Be Changed 3.6 Every Grain of Sand 3.7 You Changed My Life 3.8 Need a Woman 3.9 Angelina 3.10 Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart 3.11 Tell Me 3.12 Lord Protect My Child 3.13 Foot of Pride 3.14 Blind Willie McTell 3.15 When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky 3.As easy as easy, eh What the fuck is this, the learn-to-read-Dylan-songs-with-Bert-and-Ernie episode of Sesame Street.īauldie has need neither to reach for reasons to spod nor talk up the relative runts on volumes one and two, for which he offers interesting and informative background, not blathering didactic discharge like this: Also recorded for but not used on Infidels, Lord Protect My Child is a moving fathers prayer expressing a selfless concern for a childs future in a wicked world.
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