Happy 80th Birthday, Bob Dylan

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Happy 80th Birthday, Bob Dylan

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We don't normally do birthdays on this board but music (and 60s music icons) is one of the other things I got into on this board in my fledgling days here, chief among them Bob Dylan. I'm fairly certain my first Dylan album was Time Out of Mind, which I absolutely loved save for one song ("Make You Feel My Love") which might be his most covered song of the last thirty or even forty years. But within a year, I'd purchased every CD and listened to every song. A few years after, I think I'd obtained every bootleg. At this point in my life, I think it's hard to argue that there's another artist who owned such a major swath of my creative life and certainly none that as major as the growth I experienced in my twenties.

Recently, the song I've been rediscovering is "A Simple Twist of Fate" off of Blood on the Tracks (my first favorite album of his -- and first favorite album, period) and especially the lyric "I still believe she was my twin." A theme of his throughout the album, that being said when I was a younger man I was struck more by the romanticism of chasing the elusive woman of this song ("Hunts her down by the waterfront dock.") while now I want to tell him "Dude, I'd let her go. She's a literal sex worker." (I think?)

Anyway, here's to you, Bob. Joe Biden is in the White House. Men of your age are having a moment. Keep it rolling.
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