Of course, it was me tampering with them. If you’ve got the stew on the hob for days on end, then you’re bound to sprinkle a few too many things in there.Īs Dylan continued: “ were better before they were tampered with. Lots of songs on that album got away from me,” he mourned, “they just did.” Determined to find reinvention and turn the corner of a fruitless period he suffered the onset of creatively itchy feet. As he said of the Infidels classic: “That’s a song that got away from me. However, in Dylan’s eyes, he pushed things a bit too far and he lives with the regret.
It’s a joy, and a thing of unrivalled mystery and a sense of liberated irreverence in the reality that you will never solve this peculiar beast. With a sleek soundscape, the original vagabond sings of snakes in a baby’s grasp, hurricanes, dream twisters and a Jokerman dancing to a nightingale tune. Before you get into the utterly anti-Dylan musicology, you have to deal with the wild cascade of imagery in the truly surrealist unspooling lyric sheet.Īfter a fallow period for Dylan when critics and many fellow ungodly Christian output, he decided not to return to the tried and tested, but to push on once more, like a rolling oddball refusing to gather moss. The main reason for this is because it is entirely berserk. Ultimately, ‘Jokerman’ is a song that stands out like an alligator trying to blend into a precession of crocodiles in the beauteous back catalogue of our dearly beloved Bob.
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