Really strong English from start to end, stuffed with iambs. To me it smacks strongly of the great originators, the Elizabethans. It's noticeably a rejection of absolutely everything between 1820 and 1915, whether he thought of it in those terms or not.
Hi like you I share ideas and joy inside his song but we both understand thier a grain of truth. Have you heard his song about grace and grain of sand.
An underrated album of Dylan's, for sure. That was inevitable, I think, coming on the heels of "Highway 61 Revisited," "Bringing It All Back Home," and "Blonde on Blonde," as it did. Regardless of its unfair legacy, it's always been one of my favorites by him, whatever the general consensus about its quality or importance may be. No other record of his sounds like this one; "John Wesley Harding" is a very singular, idiosyncratic and unfortunately, often overlooked little masterpiece that suffers in the shadows cast by its equally amazing immediate predecessors.
"I asked Columbia to release it with no publicity and no hype, because this was the season of hype". Still, it has the immensely popular All Along The Watchover in it, so thankfully it has some kind of hook for some people to approach it, even if it will never be as celebrated as the threesome you mention... or the one that would come next for that matter, Nashville Skyline.
The minimalist, no-frills playing and imagistic precise Americana of the lyrics correlates with everything that went on in the basement, and yet, there's no crossover between those two projects. Very strange.
I love Dylan's songs from the seventies and eighties but John Wesley Harding is loaded with gems. Very spiritual album as well. In my opinion is the drifter Bob himself.
Hi you This is my greatest song up to date. Like your comment. I think thier a grain of truth in every story he tells so well. He song in every grain of sand great too. This one tops it. I am sure you can place your self for a minute in his shoe. Hope you enjoy your day.
In every song, he turns you into a different person. He immerses you in their thoughts and minds and feelings to persistently surprising, potent and unexpected effect and drags you along through them for three minutes. Then it's over and you're not quite the same afterwards. Part of you is that different person, now that he's made you live as them. Not many people can do that at all, and he can do it in ways which one might remember.
It' s been many years but once I drove right up to John Wesley Hardin's grave in El Paso and played this album on the car stereo . It was 110 degrees that day in El Paso .
People people trying to get meaning from a song written by someone who may not even understand their music themselves is amusing as I was told by my musician uncle while explaining what I took from a Dylan song once that art is something that everybody can look at / listen to and take something different from it but this is not to say you should not share what you take from anything that is why I read the comments on songs on TH-cam but to say you know what Dylan meant is just funny
I love you, Bob dylan ❣️, God bless you and your health and voice, you will keep going, it's God's will, I pray 🙏 for your health and voice 🙏 and your faith and may the Lord 🙏 give you peace and strength, for You we're put here to share your gifts and we love you forever ♾️ for that may the Lord bless you and keep you safe and healthy Elizabeth 🙏💞🎹🎼
@@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor 😍😍I don't like drums... In this song it does't appear much and I paid attention only in the harmonica and strings and Bob's voice.... But like you write, I heard it now....😍😍
Judas tricked Frankie lee into going into a brothel with Judas priest’s money. Frankie lee died from exhaustion because he spent 17 days in the brothel. That’s the best way to go, in my opinion 😂
absolutely great album I mean like INSANELY good but god damn I wish they mixed the harmonica down just a littttle bit lol. I mean the band is really tearing it up on these tracks and every time he stops singing its like an ear piecing freight train (in a bad way lol) coming through your living room and distracts you from the core of the song I feel like... It's not so bad in this version but on my CD it's ridiculous! I wonder if the vinyl record is the same?
That wretched mouth organ has been very annoying in alot of his work. With cassettes I used to record the songs onto a blank one but cutting out this. And I enjoyed the song much more. I don't know if you can do that with Cds or downloads.
I had a Loose Ends album. Though there's a lot of horrible albums that mostly used overdubbed by Alan Douglas at that time, I like Loose Ends like album.
11 worse for me you can keeps your sick fingers away from me. The media will make a meal of it because that's they got. The master been replaced. In not his key or ring. He stool it. He should give it back to the church. She look at the sun and I know she what she wants because she me. I know care about your lover's I care about me. Seriously and it not selfish it is that I want to believe and bring to me world. Not my man business. That for your own ego. Ok
This has always been one of my favourite of Dylan's 60's songs. 'And while everybody knelt to pray the Drifter did escape'.
Really strong English from start to end, stuffed with iambs. To me it smacks strongly of the great originators, the Elizabethans.
It's noticeably a rejection of absolutely everything between 1820 and 1915, whether he thought of it in those terms or not.
Hi like you I share ideas and joy inside his song but we both understand thier a grain of truth. Have you heard his song about grace and grain of sand.
Whole album is a masterpiece story book 🙏
My favorite Easter song- God Bless Bob Dylan. ✝️
The ultimate Escape from the ultimate Drifter....
Its a great Easter Song!!! Shine on you crazy Dimond is my 2nd
An underrated album of Dylan's, for sure. That was inevitable, I think, coming on the heels of "Highway 61 Revisited," "Bringing It All Back Home," and "Blonde on Blonde," as it did. Regardless of its unfair legacy, it's always been one of my favorites by him, whatever the general consensus about its quality or importance may be. No other record of his sounds like this one; "John Wesley Harding" is a very singular, idiosyncratic and unfortunately, often overlooked little masterpiece that suffers in the shadows cast by its equally amazing immediate predecessors.
"I asked Columbia to release it with no publicity and no hype, because this was the season of hype". Still, it has the immensely popular All Along The Watchover in it, so thankfully it has some kind of hook for some people to approach it, even if it will never be as celebrated as the threesome you mention... or the one that would come next for that matter, Nashville Skyline.
Underrated is right!, even when this is the album with All Along the Watch Tower, that so much blew Hendrix's mind
I think he wanted to simmer things down. Also to zig when everyone thought he would surely zag.
Many critics cite JWH as Dylan's masterpiece.
The minimalist, no-frills playing and imagistic precise Americana of the lyrics correlates with everything that went on in the basement, and yet, there's no crossover between those two projects. Very strange.
Every song a gem
Some people expected him to be nice, and found him aloof. He was both. Who wouldn't be, if he were half as clever?
Been waiting 8 years for this song to show up on TH-cam.
Thanks, Bob.
Me too!!!
Me too
Whole album rocks me to da core
I love Dylan's songs from the seventies and eighties but John Wesley Harding is loaded with gems. Very spiritual album as well. In my opinion is the drifter Bob himself.
Last but not least, the drift escape !!! THANK BOB 😅
Tight musicianship. Top notch Nashville session musicians.
Always loved this tune. Thanks Bob
Always loved this album
One of my favorite songs!
BIlly Strings tears this baby up!!! Great song elevated by BMFS
I was lucky to see both Bob and Billy do this song live. I will always prefer Bob, since it's his song. Billy does the best cover of this song though.
The entire John Wesley Harding album is autobiographical, Dylan singing about his numerous manifestations and experiences. Great album.
Hi you
This is my greatest song up to date. Like your comment. I think thier a grain of truth in every story he tells so well. He song in every grain of sand great too. This one tops it. I am sure you can place your self for a minute in his shoe. Hope you enjoy your day.
In every song, he turns you into a different person. He immerses you in their thoughts and minds and feelings to persistently surprising, potent and unexpected effect and drags you along through them for three minutes. Then it's over and you're not quite the same afterwards. Part of you is that different person, now that he's made you live as them. Not many people can do that at all, and he can do it in ways which one might remember.
It' s been many years but once I drove right up to John Wesley Hardin's grave in El Paso and played this album on the car stereo . It was 110 degrees that day in El Paso .
Only he can tell
People people trying to get meaning from a song written by someone who may not even understand their music themselves is amusing as I was told by my musician uncle while explaining what I took from a Dylan song once that art is something that everybody can look at / listen to and take something different from it but this is not to say you should not share what you take from anything that is why I read the comments on songs on TH-cam but to say you know what Dylan meant is just funny
My favourie Dylan LP
it's certainly up there
... Heck yeah!... I used to sing this song all the time!
We would get along great.
Bought this on vinyl recently as a reissue from WH SMITH'S. Great album.
I love you, Bob dylan ❣️, God bless you and your health and voice, you will keep going, it's God's will, I pray 🙏 for your health and voice 🙏 and your faith and may the Lord 🙏 give you peace and strength, for You we're put here to share your gifts and we love you forever ♾️ for that may the Lord bless you and keep you safe and healthy Elizabeth 🙏💞🎹🎼
Is about freaking time I get to like this album with a cover that became a myth in our unconscious
Always a favorite. Thank you. Every time he comes to Providence ,its a great show. Saw jewel open for him before she hit.
❤ 1st time I read the lyrics💜 1st time I heard the song Today Shivers went 💔through me⚡⚡⚡❣😎🕷
What a wonderful song! Only Bob and his voice, his guitar and his harmonica.... Love it...💖💖💖
Drums? They drive the whole song along...
@@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor 😍😍I don't like drums... In this song it does't appear much and I paid attention only in the harmonica and strings and Bob's voice.... But like you write, I heard it now....😍😍
You can almost filter the drums out when listening in stereo.. I like the driving beat but each to their own!!
@@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor Thansk for explaining it... I didn't know about...🙏🙏🌻🌻😘😘
simply wonderful.
Best song ever
I like Take 1 of this song so much better. It’s so raw and I love it
Love ❤️❤️
Clásico y actual, o sea imprescindible
Tq
It's what the judge said and the nurse said this is worth 👍 and men 👌
How many chords is this again, guitar, not harmonica?
If sober it makes you drunk; if drunk, sober.
When I'm sad it makes me happy; if happy, sad.
Bob is The Drifter of course...
I love JWH, but don't listen to it alone in the dark!
Hendrix recorded a version of this too.
🎼⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dylan regurgitating Kafka most unflatteringly.
Judas tricked Frankie lee into going into a brothel with Judas priest’s money. Frankie lee died from exhaustion because he spent 17 days in the brothel. That’s the best way to go, in my opinion 😂
Straight out of Kafka.
Billy Strings
Poetic watermark
I really cross how dare you think my body your play ground with out asks me. Go away your path clear
jimi hendrix did a version of this song.
Billy
absolutely great album I mean like INSANELY good but god damn I wish they mixed the harmonica down just a littttle bit lol. I mean the band is really tearing it up on these tracks and every time he stops singing its like an ear piecing freight train (in a bad way lol) coming through your living room and distracts you from the core of the song I feel like... It's not so bad in this version but on my CD it's ridiculous! I wonder if the vinyl record is the same?
That wretched mouth organ has been very annoying in alot of his work. With cassettes I used to record the songs onto a blank one but cutting out this. And I enjoyed the song much more. I don't know if you can do that with Cds or downloads.
Hendrix made a cover.
I had a Loose Ends album. Though there's a lot of horrible albums that mostly used overdubbed by Alan Douglas at that time, I like Loose Ends like album.
Fascinated by this album since way back when. But what is a 'drifter'?
A planet meaninglessly flying through space, in a spiral fashion :)
Waiting to be terraformed by a mycelian spore
@@gratefulkm Thank you. I think it refers to me, but in human form. How long do I have to wait to be terraformed?
@@majorlaff8682 When you get to terrapin station , ill be there waiting for you :)
Keep looking up
@@gratefulkm Thanks again, just booking my transmogrifier. Looking up/forward to meeting you. See you in a few light years.
@@gratefulkm I don't think that's who the drifter is in this song
How many chords would you say this has?
1
@@123thof
Actually 2 ~ C & G
@@Rich915 That's what I get for being ignorant.
deus ex machina
11 worse for me you can keeps your sick fingers away from me. The media will make a meal of it because that's they got. The master been replaced. In not his key or ring. He stool it. He should give it back to the church. She look at the sun and I know she what she wants because she me. I know care about your lover's I care about me. Seriously and it not selfish it is that I want to believe and bring to me world. Not my man business. That for your own ego. Ok
... Legalize cannabis Nationwide.
world wide
TH-cam commercials are bafflingly awful.