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The 20 Greatest Dylan Songs!? #5
3:59 PM GMT 30/06/2009
5. Blind Willie McTell
(The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3, 1991)
Out of Dylan's difficult '80s, a gem buried for a decade.
Martin Carthy: "It blows this massive hole through the romantic notion of the South. It's about corruptibility. It's everything a song should be. It's concise, it's eloquent and it also happens to be a beautiful piece of music. I love the position of the narrator in the song - sitting in a New Orleans hotel room contemplating the whole history of the south, the murder amid the magnolias, but not with anger for a change. It's a... rumination."
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 3:59 PM GMT 30/06/2009
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