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John Wesley Harding is the eighth studio album by Bob Dylan, released in 1967. His first studio album released since Blonde on Blonde, the tumultuous world tour, his mysterious motorcycle accident in July 1966, and following 10-Minute Retirement, it's yet another departure from anything he'd released earlier, stripping back the music of his electric albums to acoustic guitar, harmonica, bass and drums, and with concise, ambiguous lyrics containing neither the directness of his Protest Song phase or the wild-grown surrealism of his mid-60's output. (He'd spent the summer recording and writing The Basement Tapes with The Band, but those recordings wouldn't be publicly released for years).It's probably best known today for the single "All Along The Watchtower", which would quickly be Covered Up by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on their album Electric Ladyland to the extent that most of Dylan's various live versions through the years resemble the Experience's version of the song far more than his own. |
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An Immigrant's Tale |
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An Immigrant's Tale: "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Dylan is featured on the cover. |
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New Sound Album |
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New Sound Album: From the electric "thin wild mercury music" of Blonde on Blonde to a stripped-down, dry, mostly acoustic sound, with sparse enigmatic lyrics instead of long Word Salad Lyrics. |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: Practically every song has some sort of Biblical nod, some quite subtle. "All Along The Watchtower" alludes to Isaiah 21. "The Wicked Messenger" to Proverbs 13: |
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Just Like Robin Hood |
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Just Like Robin Hood: "John Wesley Harding" |
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Significant Monogram |
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Significant Monogram: Is the similarity of J-W-H to the Tetragrammaton just coincidence? |
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Historical Hero Upgrade |
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Historical Hero Upgrade: The title track. The Real Life John Wesley Hardin (Dylan added the G) was hardly a friend to the poor, he was definitely known to hurt an honest man, and he was eventually both caught and killed. |
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Sad Clown |
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Sad Clown: "All Along the Watchtower" begins with a cry of despair from the joker to the thief. |
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Deus ex Machina |
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Deus ex Machina: The ending of "Drifter's Escape". |
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Be Yourself |
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Be Yourself: From "Dear Landlord": |
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Bearer of Bad News |
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Bearer of Bad News: The Wicked Messenger seems to be one against his will. |
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Three Chords and the Truth |
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Three Chords and the Truth: All of the songs feature Dylan on acoustic guitar or piano, plus harmonica, accompanied by bass and drums. |
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Manly Tears |
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Manly Tears: "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" ends with the narrator weeping in remorse. |
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A Storm Is Coming |
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A Storm Is Coming: "All Along The Watchtower" |
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Meaningful Name |
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Meaningful Name: It's been noted that Judas Priest must have some kind of symbolic meaning, what with "Judas" symbolizing betrayal and "Priest" having religious implications. But there's also the fact that it's an old Minced Oath for "Jesus Christ". |
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Here We Go Again! |
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Here We Go Again!: "All Along The Watchtower" is effectively an infinite loop, beginning in medias res with a discussion between the joker and the thief, and ending with them riding into shot. |
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12-Bar Blues |
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12-Bar Blues: "Down Along The Cove" is both this and a Silly Love Song. |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: Largely avoided. Only "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" exceeds the 5:00 mark. |
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Team Shot |
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Team Shot: Subverted - the cover shows Dylan posing with three people, none of whom have anything whatsoever to do with the actual album. (Specifically, two Indian musicians and a local stonemason.) |
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Production Foreshadowing |
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Production Foreshadowing: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" anticipates Dylan's turn to Country Music on Nashville Skyline. |
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Spoof Aesop |
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"The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest" (may be a Spoof Aesop). |
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Ballad of X |
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Ballad of X: "The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "As I Went Out One Morning" features Thomas Paine as a central character. "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine", though true to form Dylan fudges the actual history a bit - St Augustine wasn't martyred, for one thing. The title track is partly modelled on Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd". Likewise "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine" on the folk standard "Joe Hill". British folk singer John Wesley Harding named himself after this album. The metal band Judas Priest named themselves after the song "The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest". The Jimi Hendrix Experience famously covered "All Along The Watchtower" on Electric Ladyland, in a version that is nowadays more famous than Dylan's original. |
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Ontological Mystery |
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Ontological Mystery: Experienced by the title character in "Drifter's Escape". |
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Deliberately Monochrome |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The black-and-white cover. |
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Epiphanic Prison |
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Epiphanic Prison: "The Wicked Messenger" |
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Intercourse with You |
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Intercourse with You: "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" |
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In the Style of |
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In the Style of: "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" is a slightly surreal riff on Hank Williams' Luke the Drifter narrations. |
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With Friends Like These... |
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With Friends Like These...: Really, Frankie, why would you trust someone named "Judas"? |
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