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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #20
10:48 AM GMT 30/06/2009
20. Ballad Of A Thin Man
(Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Funereal sneer-a-thon vs "one-eyed midgets" (think about it) everywhere.
Al Stewart: "Musically it's beautiful. I love the skinny sound of the record - it suits the title. When I saw Dylan at the Albert Hall in 1966 he played it, and I think it was the only song that he played on piano. There's no swing in the way Dylan plays it, and that gives it this old-fashioned barrelhouse feel, which works really well with the words. And when the organ comes in on top... that's wonderful."
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 10:48 AM GMT 30/06/2009
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