From the grandly poetic ‘Idiot Wind’ I now shift to one of the simplest songs in the Dylan canon.
‘He Was a Friend of Mine’ is another tune recorded when Dylan was in his early 20s that feels like it was written by a much older man.
Truth is, I don’t know if Dylan actually wrote this song. So many of his early songs (as well as many from the past decade or so) are re-imaginings of classic Civil War-era tunes. He picks up a melody line here, a phrase there and recombines them into something brand new.
Some people give him crap over this, but they don’t understand that Dylan is a member of a long line of troubadours who pass on songs like stories. It isn’t theft, it’s a part of that same evolutionary process that defines his own body of original work. These old songs can never die so long as musicians are willing to breathe new life into them.
Meet Me In Montauk 
Truly a simple screed, old chum, from the tome of Dylan’s finest early works, sans a discernable outro, but nevertheless titilating.
🙂 Simple and profound. Just like Dana.
Well, he is simple…
ha 🙂
but with such a rich vocabulary.
Oh, shut the F#$% up!
okay, maybe he’s not so profound – just profane.
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