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I didn’t get Dylan when I was young. Because I didn’t live in his time. Or maybe because I just didn’t get him. Youth and all they say about it is true.The mistake that everyone who did get him (or pretended to) made when they tried to make me understand was to tell me to listen to the 1975 album Blood on the Tracks. So I did. And I still didn’t get it. Because the character arc of Dylan’s music doesn’t start there. It might end there. Or at least reach its mortal climax before the legend descends into the domain of the gods where one can only admire from afar. But it doesn’t start there. For me it starts with the step-down note just before he starts singing “Girl from the North Country” on his 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, the first album where Dylan wrote the majority of the songs. From there he drags us through the longing and disillusionment that I never had the chops to dig into when I was the age that people tend to do that. And I’m not alone. One secret about Dylan is t...
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