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Old 11-29-2017, 05:55 AM   #14 (permalink)
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^ Yes, that's one of the best tracks imo too, along with "I've got a secret".

One time in an interview, Dylan talked about how this album was a huge influence on him when he made one of the biggest stylistic changes in his career and recorded the John Wesley Harding album. He said that Fred Neil showed him something that had not occurred to him before: that you can take a traditional song, add in your own words and mix things around so that no-one can tell which lyrics are yours and which are traditional. That's true on the best tracks here, as FN shares his thoughts and quotes bits of remembered songs in the laid-back pace that Dylan also copied for JWH.

If we accept what Dylan says, we could make the case that the whole Americana revival made popular by The Band started with Fred Neil's album.
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