"Joseph [Laroche] - who is thought to have been the only black passenger on the Titanic" As if his daughters (and unborn son) weren't on board. Anyway, the likes of Leadbelly apparently hadn't heard about Joseph Laroche and family, which accounts for the tenor of some of their songs, as someone wrote. Joseph was a nephew of the President of Haiti.

"Bob Dylan's excellent Tempest" It really is. I got rid of all but three of my Dylan CDs recently. The ones that made the cut were Blonde On Blonde, Saved, and Tempest.