Jesse Winchester

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:01 PM

I like that Bobad. eecummings was an interesting character. As for the WORD!!! Jesse used. It is HIS song. That is the word HE chose.

Actually this reminds me of driving home from seeing a Fellini film with five friends. What an amusing discussion!!!!!! Finally, Dorothy said (always the iconoclast?), "I'll bet he had a lot of fun doing that film and laughing to himself, 'what are they going to think I meant by this?   and this? ... and this... Of course no one paid the slightest heed to me. In fact it was rather like this thread. Later I read an interview in which he came very close to quoting what I said.

Nit pick all ye like. It is a human aberration. Tis human to err.... And also to have fun...

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 07:34 PM

Dorothy, you've come very close to quoting what I said.

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 08:01 PM

Well, some of us think alike!

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST,Chuck the Beancounter
Date: 19 Mar 13 - 10:28 AM

One of mu all-time "duh" moments. I've heard The Brand New Tennessee Waltz probably 100 times over the years. While listening to it yesterday, it hit me like a thunderbolt that Jesse probably is singing, at least in part, about a hanging.

"Literally" waltzing on air...They'll find you wherever you're hid...
What else could he mean?

So I come to work this morning and discover that, while I'm probably nuts, at least I have some company. Regardless, IMO, it's one of Jesse's most beautiful songs, which directly implies that it's most beautiful songs in the English language. But I'm just not too happy about the visual that will accompany it from now on.

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST,Chuck the Beancounter
Date: 19 Mar 13 - 10:40 AM

One of my all-time "duh" moments. I've heard The Brand New Tennessee Waltz probably 100 times over the years. While listening to it yesterday, it hit me like a thunderbolt that Jesse probably is singing, at least in part, about a hanging.

"Literally" waltzing on air...They'll find you wherever you're hid...
What else could he mean?

So I come to work this morning and discover that, while I'm probably nuts, at least I have some company. Regardless, IMO, it's one of Jesse's most beautiful song, which also means that it's most beautiful songs in the English language. But now I'm not too happy about the visual that will accompany it from now on.

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Mar 13 - 11:43 AM

What was it Alice was told? "A word means anything that I say it to mean"? lol

I agree that Winchester probably used 'literally' knowingly, because, given its three syllables, there was room for a phrase rather than a single word.

I still don't like a word used that incorrectly. So there.

(I do like the song, though.)

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 05:01 PM

one mustn't forget that Jesse was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War. That is why he had to leave in a hurry. If he deserted, well the penalty can be death, hence the literally dancing on air.

Subject: RE: Jesse Winchester
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 05:01 PM

one mustn't forget that Jesse was a draft dodger during the Vietnam War. That is why he had to leave in a hurry. If he deserted, well the penalty can be death, hence the literally dancing on air.