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Thread #102209   Message #2088981
Posted By: JeremyC
28-Jun-07 - 08:30 AM
Thread Name: Carthy Discusses Dylan
Subject: RE: Carthy Discusses Dylan
Awesome. That's a great song.

On the topic of the Dylan-Baez thing, I recently read Dick Weissman's book "Which Side Are You On?" where he says something along the lines of "Joan Baez was surprised to have run across someone more coldly ambitious and calculating than herself." Provocative! I hadn't run across this contention with re: to Baez before, although I'd been told this about Dylan.

Also, the song I was thinking of earlier, where she tries and fails to sing it convincingly, was "East Virginia," on her self-titled album. Her diction is too correct for her to get away with words like "holler" and "darlin'"--if she'd just said "hollow" and "darling," it would have been fine, and I never would have noticed anything amiss.