tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post2138607114617135894..comments2024-03-21T00:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Every Bob Dylan Song: Bob Dylan Song #40: Chimes of FreedomTonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12613923038816299394noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-84136964127985615462016-12-07T01:06:15.877-08:002016-12-07T01:06:15.877-08:00What a great essay. Have you read enough? Well com...What a great essay. Have you read enough? Well come inside Bob Dylan's Music Box http://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/117/Chimes-of-Freedom and listen to all the great versions of this incredible song.David George Freemanhttp://thebobdylanproject.com/Song/id/117/Chimes-of-Freedomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2448601238585270507.post-1021901555619116532008-10-25T06:36:00.000-07:002008-10-25T06:36:00.000-07:00Thank you very much for this series. How interesti...Thank you very much for this series. How interesting that your review of Chimes of Freedom which I agree with you is a major work has elicited no comments yet. I wonder if this is because judged against Dylan's very highest standards of writing in images by which I mean Hard Rain to Weary Tune to Tambourine Man to Every grain of Sand it just falls short but people don't quite like to say so. How so? I would say in three ways. Here we see dylan in transition from borrowing folk tunes to creating his own this is about the nearest he comes to plainchant.Not much of a tune. Then, is some of the language really a bit over the top when we are used to Dylan the master of understatement and surprise ....'for every hung up person in the whole wide universe'.Then I feel he must have found it difficult to perform. The Newport performance seems to me a little bit forced unlike Tambourine Man, as if this is a message which has to be pushed across.So,it doesn't survive into the Halloween concert unlike five of the Another Side songs.Some lovely lines and phrases---starry eyed and laughing, the cloud's white curtain.One of the few things of Dylan's which is almost as good to read as to listen to.albert hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894034087943347834noreply@blogger.com