Walkin’ a road other men have gone down
I’m seein’ your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings (Dylan)
next month i am going to see MR. Bob Dylan in concert in Wilmington.......on the under card he has 73 year old Lucinda Williams, she is recovering from a major stroke a few years back and can no longer play guitar...but she still sings.......followed by the 75 year old Jimmy Vaughan, he had a triple bypass 3 years ago and last year had a battle with cancer..........and finally, the headliner; 85 years young Mister Zimmerman has been around for more than 1/3 of this Countries 250 years.....think about that ...amazing
He has contributed the soundtrack to the lives of more than a few generations of Americans and keeps right on chugging.....i think back to the early 1970's in my parents house, listening to Bob Dylan on the stereo, well before the bicentennial , never imagined that after the semi-quincentennial i would be seeing Bob in concert in North Carolina.......life is strange.
I think of all the other times that i have seen him live......i think of all the times i played his music on a jukebox in a bar......or listened to his music standing around a keg in the park, or the Top of the Stairs or at the beach....of all the old friends that bonded over his lyrics and or laughed over his quirks and quotes........i have zero expectations for the music....whatever we get will be greatly appreciated and accepted.....i just want to have a few beers and the near the stage, along the Cape Fear River, and take it all in...
Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind
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