Sign on the Window isn't the Bob Dylan podcast you need, but it's definitely the one that you want! Each week we select a Dylan song at random, live with the song for a week (or two) and then get together to discuss. This week "Bring Me a Little Water" off Another Self Portrait.
This week, in a short episode, we talk Lead Belly (3:30), the song (8:00) and milk, honey, slop, beans, coconuts, candy and turnip greens (11:00). After our playlist (14:00), we recommend Hop Along, BETTER CALL SAUL, Restorations and Marissa Nadler.
Next week: a Napoleon Bonaparte mask!
CONTEXT (3:30)
This song was recorded during his recording of Self Portrait. Not a lot is known beyond this being one of the covers he was interested in.
The song is older than Dylan and usually credited to Lead Belly and in Alan Lomax’s Folk Songs of North America.
SONG ITSELF (8:00)
Dylan expands the scope of the song, using just the refrain. It’s like what he did to Tell Ol' Bill (055), except he just rewrote that song under a traditional title. We get a fleshed out version of Sylvie, from Florida, who brings the narrator milk, honey, slops, beans, coconuts, candy and turnip greens.
I mean, it’s fine. There’s a few of these every season (Don't You Try Me Now (011) was our Season 1 culprit) so we welcome it.
THE EPISODE’S BOOKLET & PLAYLIST
RECOMMENDATIONS (23:00)
Kelly caught up on Better Call Saul and listened to Hop Along all week.
Daniel listened to new records by Marissa Nadler (For My Crimes), hopesfall (Arbiter), Gouge Away (Burnt Sugar) and the great Restorations (LP5000).
ENDINGS (29:00)
There are 441 songs left.
Kelly guessed #402. It would have been our first song from Dylan’s Christian period this year, "Heart of Mine."
Instead, it’s #420 (again…) "On the Road Again," from Bringing It All Back Home.
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