![]() He feels there is a divine purpose, a plan behind everything he does as an actor. It all seems to demonstrate that Dylan doesn’t do anything at random. And asked whom he made that bargain with he answers: “With the Chief Commander, in this earth and in a world we can’t see”. On the question what his bargain was Dylan answers: ‘‘to get where I am now”. I mean, I made a bargain with it, you know, long time ago. After emphasizing that he doesn’t take any of it for granted, Dylan gives the following reply: ‘’It goes back to that destiny thing. In this interview Dylan is asked why after so many years he still out there on stage, performing all of his songs on tour. I think that this interview may give us an important clue on how we should position “ All along the Watchtower”. What is the secret behind this song? First of all, we’d like to reiterate what we earlier wrote on our weblog about the 60 minutes CBS television interview Bob Dylan gave in 2004. One may say that “All along the Watchtower” represents Dylan’s trade mark or identity card. The song was performed in concert for the first time in 1974 and as per today (December 2011) the song has been performed a staggering 1957 times, more than any other Dylan song, even more than his best known song “Like a Rolling Stone” which has been performed 1810 times up till now. There can be no doubt that this song represents a very important, if not the most important, place in Dylan’s works. On the album version of the song there is a high haunting harmonica and the simple motion of the riff hurriedly drives you in a forward direction as if you are heading towards some abyss from which there is no turning back. The unusual structure of the narrative was also noted by Christopher Ricks, an English Literature Professor, who commented that " All Along the Watchtower" is a typical example of Dylan's audacity at manipulating chronological time: " at the conclusion of the last verse, it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last, and as if the myth began again." The same thing is true of the song "All Along the Watchtower", which opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, for we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order." As with the third verse of "The Wicked Messenger", which opens it up, and then the time schedule takes a jump and soon the song becomes wider. These melodies on John Wesley Harding lack this traditional sense of time. A balladeer can sit down and sing three songs for an hour and a half. In an interview which Dylan gave in 1968, he commented on the album “John Wesley Harding” saying: " I haven't fulfilled the balladeer’s job. But in fact the song starts in the middle of a conversation. The third verse: “ All along the watchtower, princes kept the view…etc.” tells the story and one would expect the song to start with this verse. The narrative of the song has a rather unusual structure. “All along the watchtower” has only three verses and there is no chorus. Dylan at the time remarked that this album was “ the first biblical rock album“, this remark gives us a hermeneutical key, not only for this song, but for the interpretation of the whole album. This song was written and recorded in 1967 for the album “John Wesley Harding”. Other territories soon followed with the album performing well in each of them thanks to the singles "White Unicorn" "Woman," and "Joker & the Thief," along with a host of film, television, and video game placements, not to mention constant touring with a focus on festivals.Bob Dylan's "All along the Watchtower" - a lyric analysis - Part 1īob Dylan’s “All along the Watchtower” – an analysis by Kees de Graaf – Part 1 ![]() Wolfmother, the album, turned into a big hit eventually being certified quintuple platinum in Pledging allegiance to thick, throttling fuzz guitars, primal psychedelia, and thundering rhythms, the 21st-century rock revivalists Wolfmother split the difference between the classic sludge of Black Sabbath and the retro-garage rock of the Whiteįormed by lead guitarist/vocalist Andrew Stockdale in 2000 Wolfmother spent a few years woodshedding before the power trio came storming out of Sydney, Australia in 2006 with a self-titled debut that generated international hits in the form of "Woman" and "Joker And The Thief". You get the feelin', comin' after the glow I wonder what would happen if he took her away He's always laughing in the midst of powerĪs she's standing in the field of clover? ![]() Subscribe to the official Wolfmother YouTube channel:Ībout the joker and the thief in the night Official remix audio for 'Joker And The Thief' by Wolfmother.ĭownload, Buy or Stream 'Joker And The Thief' by Wolfmother here: "Joker And The Thief" Lyrics, Composers, Record Label
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