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

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

[Will88]

Ah, come one, you all know Flying Purple People Eater is the greatest song ever written, followed closely by Leader of the Pack.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I’ll go with that, but “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” actually claims to be the perfect country & western song after Steve Goodman wrote that verse about mama, and trains, and trucks, and prison, and getting drunk.

[GranTorino]

After what has happened the last couple years, I tend to agree.
I wanna be sedated.

[Texas resident]

That and “Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life”.

End over end neither to the left of right.

Or,

Roy Clark’s “Thank God and greyhound your gone.

[steel_resolve]

Ping

[Born in 1950]

Cool, thanks for that funny tid bit. I never knew that..

http://factmyth.com/factoids/harry-nilsson-was-lennon-and-mccartneys-favorite-group/

[UnBubba]

Good choice, Jamestown1630! I have one song I place just a notch above & it's also a Hank Williams, Sr. classic:

Sometimes it's hard, but you gotta understand

[OKSooner]

Yes it is, but it wasn’t at first...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Frankly I was never a Bob Dylan fan, I could not stand his singing, it’s horrible. He may be talented and great doing writer, I just never got into him at all.

[MV=PY]

Is that REALLY what it’s all about?

[OKSooner]

Man ain’t that for sure.

Let’s hope they lived happily ever after in... say, San Antonio.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I liked him a lot, sang some really great songs.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep, it needed that verse about mama, and trains, and trucks, and prison, and getting drunk.

[OKSooner]

Beethoven’s favorite composer was George Frederic Handel.

[Jamestown1630]

I can’t believe nobody has mentioned ‘A Boy Named Sue’:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp5gwi

[metmom]

I’ve heard modern music.

It doesn’t even compare to generations past when real talent was needed.

[odawg]

I always thought that the closing lyrics, “And as I wonder where you are, I’m so lonesome I could cry” is genius for a clincher.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Old country & western is rich with great songs. Lots of creativity and grit and good humor. There used to be a guy on the radio here who had been a DJ on that blowtorch that used to broadcast from Del Rio, Texas. He called country and western “soul music for white people.”

[Texas resident]

My dad listened to an AM station out of Houston back in the 1970’s. 650 AM KIKK. They broadcasted from sunup to sundown. Really old twangy country from the 40’s to the 60’s. Porter Wagner, early Willy, Tammy Wynette, Hank Snow and Hank Sr.

Great stuff.

[Yardstick]

Very nice. His playing in the solo reminds me of Albert Lee.

Here’s my favorite live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU

Cool for the period visuals and the fact that he plays the 6 string bass solo.