Jeeze, Jerry, ya got an hour or so?

Let's start with a Handful of Songs, just to be smarmy -- I love that phrase because it says so much in just three words. It is an explosive phrase full of grace.

The Times They Are A-Changing, for similarly capturing the zrietgeist of the postwar generation in a single phrase and for blending stridency and urgency with a melody that can be poignant.

Utah Phillps' whole book --- well, how about "I Remember Loving You" -- sheeshe what a time-snapper that song is!

The Girl from the North Country, for reasons I have never been able to express, and likewise a good score of Dylan's things. Just genius walking about naked, IMHO.

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