Me too. It's #1 on my "Mt. Bachelor" playlist, which I listen to while skiing my favorite NW mountain.
Great song. I'm not one who is into the politics of an artist. They are artists, nothing more, nothing less. I have friends who are 180 degrees opposite of me politically, yet I still enjoy their company.
That's how I view artists. It doesn't always have to be politics in my world.
I think a lot of recording artists are sheltered and naive and thus they get easily sucked into the liberal mindset because it appears "cool" and "anti-establishment."
Who cares. When I was 17, I was a big fan of Jimmy Carter and I even went around wearing a "No Nukes" T-shirt. But I grew up. Many of these rock stars never get the chance to grow up. So do I hold that against them?
I was just thinking recently how Freepers sing the praises of all rock stars who espouse the conservative mindset such as Ted Nugent, Creed and Kid Rock. Well I'm glad to have them in our camp but frankly, I'd rather listen to other rock acts than those three.
What if Bruce Springsteen was a Reagan voting conservative?
One of my favorite all-time rock artists is Bruce Springsteen. Yet many Freepers pan his music unmercifully because he is a vocal liberal. I can only imagine how those same Freepers would be calling him the greatest rock star of all time if he was a conservative?
I hate Springsteen's politics as much as anybody here but his place in rock music cannot be denied.
Thus, I was somewhat amused when Freepers started warming to Bob Dylan after the publishing of his recent book "outed" him as a closet-conservative. Well maybe not exactly a true-blue conservative but at least one who rejected the flower-power crap of the 60s.