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Nick Spitzer, host of the radio program American Routes, said "'American Blood' could be the song that legitimizes critiquing America while loving the country."About the song's meaning, Allmusic notes that "People end up endlessly disappointed and frustrated when encountering the paradox of who their nation says they are and what the nation is in and of itself". [2]
In the mid-1980s Kelly and a group of like-minded musicians started calling themselves "anti-folk" and started a small but intense movement. [1] Kelly's music has been infrequently recorded over the years. [2] His work has often included topical songs. Some of Kelly's early songs dealt with the labor movement and were based upon his own work ...
The stark, topical songs on Dylan’s third album include the masterpiece “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” written after Dylan read a 1963 newspaper story about Carroll, a Baltimore ...
"John Brown" is an anti-war song. [6] The lyrics are influenced by "Mrs. McGrath", [1] which relates how a young Irish soldier is maimed after fighting in the British Army against Napoleon's forces, and is met by his mother who asks how he was injured. [2] [7] In Dylan's song, a soldier's mother expresses her pride at him going off to war. [7]
Bob Dylan was announced earlier this year as having written separate appreciations of more than 60 different songs for his forthcoming book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song.” Now, the names of ...
In long-lost interviews, Bob Dylan speaks candidly about anti-Semitic prejudice and reveals he wrote the hit song "Lay Lady Lay" for Barbra Streisand to sing. The remarks are contained in typed ...
A song in Newcastle-upon-Tyne marking the 1821 coronation of George IV specifies its tune as "Arthur McBride". [10] "The Bold Tenant Farmer" has a similar tune which is sometimes used. [11] [12] Thomas Ainge Devyr (1805–1887), an Irish Chartist who emigrated to America in 1840, in his 1882 memoir recalled the song from his youth in County ...
For Gill, Dylan uses the song to summarise all the misgivings he feels about the direction of his life, his work and his career, which, in this song, brim over "into a wistful adieu to his former friends and foes". [6] Shelton points out that Dylan makes time the theme of his song, but contrasts its meaning with its use in the album title.