The song that Bob Dylan described as the "greatest ever written"

Far Out Magazine ^ | 6-18-22 | Tom Taylor

[yetidog]

This song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQNeGPJdcQ is little known but certainly give Edmund Fitzgerald a run for its money as one of the best disaster songs ever made.

[dynachrome]

I drank a lot of beer to that song.

[ckilmer]

“Searching in the Sun for another overload”

When you’re out west whether its the great plains or the southern deserts—the sun is dominant. Its in the middle of everything. Its in the middle of your mind—especially when you’re looking in the distance. The summer heat makes things waver and shimmer. If you see a line down—you see it peripherally through the sun’s haze—and your mind’s haze.

The line above catches it right.

[MtnClimber]

that was really different. Thanks.

[SisterK]

my favorite David Allen Coe is
Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1L-QbkZ44k

[atc23]

Yeah, Willie Nelson’s cover of City of New Orleans is pure American roots-

[dynachrome]

The rumor is that David Alan Coe wrote and performed “The Rodeo Song”. The bar I drank in finally banned it. Tourists were annoyed when it was blasting on the speakers.

[SisterK]

agree!
speaking of rodeo
Ian Tyson did the rodeo circuit until he was injured
while recovering, he tried song writing
Four Strong Winds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m7ckGhnsc
Gordon Lightfoot recorded a lot of Ian Tyson tunes.

[klgator]

This song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQNeGPJdcQ is little known but certainly give Edmund Fitzgerald a run for its money as one of the best disaster songs ever made.

"Cold Missouri Waters" by Cry, Cry, Cry is a true story as I later found out. Wagner Dodge is the real life hero of the song. It's fun learning about true stories behind songs. "Lord Franklin" by The Pentangle was about Sir John Franklin who headed the ill-fated attempt to find a Northwest Passage. It was featured in the first season of "The Terror." Imagine my surprise to find when touring Westminster Abbey a plaque dedicated to him.

[justme4now]

Maybe it’s just me but the song Sucks as does Bob Dylan!
I’m sorry but I grew up with that generation and even stumbled into Woodstock in 69.
(Drove from south Florida to NY to go to a girl’s prom, a girl I met on Lauderdale beach. She insisted that we go to this “concert” that I hadn’t heard of but wanted me to take her to before I headed back south.)🙃

It just seems to me that everyone that grew up in the era feel that they have to agree that Dylan was a god of some sort!

To me, the only one that rivals him as a music god and sucks as much was Hank Williams Sr!
(Horrible whiney, tinny voice.)😬

I know I’m gonna catch it now but after almost 70 years of listening to the Bob Dylan, Hank Williams Sr idol worship .. it is time to tell the truth!🤬
(I like the song “I’m so lonesome I could die” but it’s a great example of a whiney vocal sound that did little for the lyrics!)

Hank Willam’s son is a hell of a better singer than dad ever was!

[Clay Moore]

My favorite David Allen Coe song

Pledging My Love

A tribute to Johnny Ace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXynQeWXcfU

Johnny Ace’s version is one of my favorite songs.

[SisterK]

fun thread
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Dwight Yoakam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3ypuKq8WE

not taking away from Glen Campbell
rest in peace
I love Glen and look forward to meeting him on the other side.

[SisterK]

“soul music for white people.”

Yes!

[vetvetdoug]

XERF had a great lineup of old country music. Paul and Linda Kallinger were HS classmates of me and their Father was one of the main DJ’s there. The station had hired the Carter Family back in the 1930’s for a year and they broadcast the Carter Family music for a year. The Carter Family lived near Star Park in Del Rio. Robert Smith was a later DJ and stayed at the Roswell near the old Del Rio HS and it wasn't that odd to run into him before his DJ stint at the “X”. As far as a great song there are too many to name but Dylan has the credentials to make a valid statement.

[SisterK]

Don’t Fear the Reaper
perfect amount of cowbell
another classic
Dire Straits
Sultan of Swing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY

[SisterK]

you left out Bell Bottom Blues

[Jamestown1630]

That’s a fascinating story - he seems to have lit his escape fire without really knowing anything about the technique.

[Inyo-Mono]

‘Wichita Lineman’ came out when I was 17 and is definitely one of my all time favorite songs. The lyrics, the opening bass line, and Glen’s vocals and guitar work are perfect.

[lefty-lie-spy]

>I have to go with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

This is definitely a timeless and unforgettable song. I go back to it several times a year when I can’t decide if I want Motörhead, Slayer, Suffocation, Reverend Horton Heat, Black Sabbath, or Charlie Daniels, etc., or just want to listen to some old Dragnet or Richard Diamond Private Detective radio shows, and just can’t decide what I’m in the mood for.

This song is always one that’s easy to go back to and enjoy.

[SisterK]

Wow
that is tragic and beautiful at the same time