BOB DYLAN
Blonde On Blonde COLUMBIA, 1966
The first song I ever remember being moved by was “Blowin’ In The Wind”. But it wasn’t Bob Dylan’s version, it was Val Doonican’s – I was about five or six years old and it was on the TV. I don’t know why it moved me, but I suppose that’s the power of poetry. I came to Bob a few years later when a student of my mother’s played me . My favourite song was “Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” – the sway of the rhythm, the romance of the organ, the buttoned-down emotion of the players that
