Re: Burnside / Parsing 'That's' / Another Case / RE: (TV) Dylan + Ci vil War -- Verlaine too? tv@obbard.com

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message 
<0351E411702FA84A966DD30E5519124B530C07@vntmail03.volpe.dot.gov>, 
"Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov> writes
> I forget the author's name (former NY Times writer?) of the late 1980's 
> Dylan biography, "No Direction Home"

Robert Shelton?

> I never knew that the musicians were deliberately kept in the dark 
> about the song other than the day before hearing him sing parts while 
> he played a piano, or that the musicians didn't really rehearse the 
> song [according to Marcus], and that the released version was the very 
> first take of the session.

This explains the constant feeling that the song is surging towards an 
end only to start another verse. Terrific song.

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