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Thread #59898   Message #958427
Posted By: PoppaGator
23-May-03 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
Subject: RE: Dylan Documentary: What Would You Ask?
Harry,

Thanks for the info. I wonder if Paul Clayton was passing along something he had picked up (i.e., more-or-less traditional) or if he had written it. If he had no complaints, it must not have been original.

I saw Jack Elliott just two or three years ago, a very rare appearance in New Orleans. It may have been his first visit since writing that tune about an address on Toulouse Street way back in the earliest sixties. He played & sang "Don't Think Twice" after a l-o-o-n-g introduction about young Bobby Dylan, and how this was his first great achievement, and how it was still the best thing Bob ever wrote, etc. No hint that both words and music might not have been Dylan's.

By the way, that was when I realized that the "Ramblin" part of Eliot whatsizname's psuedonym didn't necessarily have anything to do with *traveling* -- if you catch my drift...