Legacy Recordings

I appreciated finally hearing something positive about Dylan’s “conversion,” which, as the title of “Bringing It All Back Home” relates, was actually the returning to his rock’n'roll roots. It seems to me that to accentuate the inclusiveness of the album - my all-time favorite, by the way - is more in tune, no pun intended, with what the album is, rather than focus on how some narrow-minded people found it alienating. There’s something on that album for everyone to appreciate; tender love ballads, protest tunes, humor and incisive social-political introspections.

Griel Marcus does an astounding job in his comment on “Like A Rolling Stone,” coming-off as both clueless and simplistic at the same time. I appreciated hearing John Hyatt’s remembrance of his first encounter with the song, however.

I can still clearly recall the early electric songs and their impact-I began to realize that I could become so much more than a folk singer. The impact of poetry and rock music forever expanded my writing and experience and led me down some dark, twisted roads leading to the presentiment of a dream. And some dreamers never waken.