Bob Dylan
I'm only Bleeding
Driving for some hours today to the Optomist in Queenscliff I was singing along with the Car Collection I made for the Rose's Gap road trip and on the way home was a stripped back version of It's All Right Ma, I'm only Bleeding by Bob Dylan with nothing but a guitar and a harmonica. The Byrd's version was a significant feature of the soundtrack to Easy Rider with Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
IAMIOB is one of my all time Dylan favorites. Pure Beat poet inspired stream of consciousness pre-rap observations of the essential existential angst of modern life. I can't believe I just wrote that, but that's the best way I can put it. Or you can just listen to the man himself in one of these MyTube thingies. Sensational lyrics if you maintain the concentration. read more »
