The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102209   Message #2070731
Posted By: KeithofChester
07-Jun-07 - 10:23 AM
Thread Name: Carthy Discusses Dylan
Subject: RE: Carthy Discusses Dylan
That is another very nice song she wrote about him.

There was a lot (necessarily) missed out in that 25 minutes.

One of the better tales I know is of Bob asking Joan to "play the one about me" (meaning Diamonds & Rust) during The Rolling Thunder Revue tour and her teasing him and saying "Oh you mean the one I wrote about my husband".

You only have to see Renaldo & Clara to observe that even 10 years later there remained lots of complexities in the Bob-Joan relationship. Not that it is exactly easy to lay your hands on a copy of Renaldo & Clara since Bob locked it up in the safe again after its very brief outing in the cinemas, but recorded-off- TV versions are around and several bits of it were out there on YouTube last time I looked.

I love that she normally now ends D&R "If you are offering me diamonds and rust, I'll take the diamonds" rather than its older, bleaker and bitter ending. But now it says 40 years and not 10 too, and time (sometimes) is a great healer.