BOB DYLAN’s new album “TEMPEST”: GREIL MARCUS comments on Dylan’s return to “the old weird America” of murder songs, ballads and tall tales. Greil’s decades of writing about Dylan are collected in the volume Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010.
Playlist: “Scarlet Town”; “Long and wasted”; “Tempest”: “The watchman he lay dreaming/ Of all the things that can be/ He dreamed the Titanic was sinking/ Into the deep blue sea.”
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