The Common Dreams site has posted an excerpt from Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Volume One. It’s from the section of the book about his time spent in New Orleans recording Oh Mercy with Daniel Lanois. Here’s a bit of the excerpt.
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. There’s a thousand different angles at any moment. At any time you could run into a ritual honoring some vaguely known queen. Bluebloods, titled persons like crazy drunks, lean weakly against the walls and drag themselves through the gutter. Even they seem to have insights you might want to listen to. No action seems inappropriate here. The city is one very long poem. Gardens full of pansies, pink petunias, opiates. Flower-bedecked shrines, white myrtles, bougainvillea and purple oleander stimulate your senses, make you feel cool and clear inside.
Read the whole thing here or, better yet, read the whole book.
Listen to Oh Mercy today if you’ve got it. If you don’t have it, well then you’d best go buy yourself a copy today.
Watch the Martin Scorsese film, No Direction Home, that is airing on PBS Monday and Tuesday night.
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