I had wanted to hear the piece, and missed it, so thanks for the link, Kat--

I heard Bob Dylan talking about this song, and it was an inspiration to him--it is not a country song--it uses imagery to evoke an emotion--

The thing is that all of of these people missed, and the thing that makes it great, is that in the last verse "The silence of a shooting star lights up a purple sky" there is an epiphany--it has the same beat glow that you find in "Howl"--