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Thread #126067   Message #2860552
Posted By: Joe_F
09-Mar-10 - 06:14 PM
Thread Name: Dave Van Ronk's Memoirs
Subject: RE: Dave Van Ronk's Memoirs
Another amusing revelation (p. 4): Bob Dylan reworked "Chimes of Freedom" (one of his best two songs, IMO) from "The Chimes of Trinity", a sentimental 19th-century song. Van Ronk liked the original (which he learned from his grandmother) better! I don't agree with him about that, but I do emphatically agree with his observation (p. 204) that Dylan was contemptuous of craftsmanship: "He always seemed to think that it was easier to write a new song than to fix an old one." I had long since written next to the author line of "Don't Think Twice", in my copy, "was never in danger of that".