I believe these are the songs that Bob Dylan described in
his autobiography ('Chronicals, V. 1' -- very interesting
reading). Dylan went to NY initially in part to see Woody
Guthrie. He was told that boxes of his songs were in his
house somewhere out on Long Island (I think) and went to
fetch them at Woody's prompting. Dylan showed up at the
door (mentioned that he saw the young Arlo -- about 11 at
the time) and asked about them but was told there weren't
any boxes of that kind there. He took no for an answer.
Depending on what you think of Dylan's work, this might be
viewed as an intervention of Destiny. He'd probably have
spent his time working up Guthrie's songs rather than
writing his own. I happen to think that would have been a
very great loss.
Elsewhere I heard another story of Dylan's being turned away
at the door. He and Joan Baez were traveling together and
he went into a hotel they were to stay at and asked if there
were a reservation for Joan Baez. He was told "no." He
went back to tell this to Baez, and she walked in and
inquired about the reservation and they welcomed her and
said "Of course we have your reservation." That night Dylan
wrote "When the Ship Comes In" -- a somewhat apocalyptical
song, one among many and almost always his best sort of work.
Joel W.
Quoting Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>:
> Yeah, Richard, I was reading. I enjoyed the link, too.
> Thanks.
>
> As an aside, for any who may also be an admirer of Arlo's
> dad, Woody, one of my favorite CDs is, strange as it may
> seem, "Mermaid Avenue" by a British rock group, Billy
> Bragg & Wilco. The story behind the album is told, in
> part, by these bits from the liner notes:
>
> "Despite the fact that his recording career was more or
> less over by 1947, he carried on writing songs until he
> became too ill to hold a pencil. The last years of his
> life were spent in the Brooklyn State Hospital, and when
> he died in 1967, the tunes that he had dreamt up for
> those hundreds of unrecorded songs, tunes he had carried
> in his head all his life, were lost forever."
>
> "Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie apaproached me in the
> spring of 1995 with the idea of writing some new music to
> accompany these lost songs."
>
> And that's what this surprisingly wonderful album is all
> about. I recommend it highly.
>
> Oh, and nice shot! I have to drive 150 miles to find
> snow. :-(
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "You can't have a light without a
> dark to stick it in." -- Arlo Guthrie
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Richard Lovison <sylv4700@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > --- Martin G Flink <mgflink@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Hey Walt, if you are reading this, the church where
> Arlo
> > Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" took place is in Great
> Barrington
> > (http://www.guthriecenter.org/main.shtml). He bought
> the church a few
> > years back and moved in. :)
> >
> > Richard
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