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wor, Mercer Cluster: This is an attempt to justify what I feel needs no justification. If your readers could care less whether Bob Dylan is good, bad, or “ethnic,” and whether this is good or bad. Furthermore, I play the guitar and sing, to the rue of the students of Shorter Hall, I can say with reasonable accuracy that neither I nor Mr. Dylan give a damn whether we are appreciated by the “music majors” not. Still, Mr. Maxwell seems intent on starting a controversy (which I truth started by lending Bill Dayton my Dyland record and asking to review it), so I guess I should oblige Mr. Maxwell as follows. Bob Dylan, the 21-year-old folk poet and singer, who “does not belong records,” has his latest [p album in the top 60 according to Billboard. , of course, only speaks for the American public’s lack—apalling musical taste. He is no Robert Goulet; he has no desire to be. it that the extreme bitterness of the phrase from he “Masters of speaking of today’s world leaders—“I see through your hearts clear to your brains just like I see through the water that runs down —would lose some of its effectiveness in the metropolitan pera. Everyone seems to have overlooked the fact that Dylan's purpose to carry on the old tradition of the Negro blues singer, Big Bill , Joe Williams, or even Pearly Brown—who sings on the Macon At the risk of being corny, just as I don’t have the right to say for a style of singing I also can't understand but which does a purpose. It is not roses and harmony—but neither is blood, death, dying children, and World War III. John Rue
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Macon Mercer Cluster
Macon, Georgia, US
Fri, Nov 22, 1963
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Chris H.
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