Count me as happily stunned upon reading the news this morning that His Bobness has just released a new, original 17 minute song. And, after two pretty intense listens it strikes me as unlike anything else in his considerable canon. I'm assuming, probably incorrectly, it's an outtake from the sessions for Tempest, but it just doesn't sound like the rest of the album.
Richard Williams at the ever excellent thebluemoment.com draws a useful parallel with Cross the Green Mountain, but I kept thinking of Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, most likely due to the sense that Dylan is reciting here rather than singing and also due to the concomitant feeling of extremely free association - not that that is particularly out of the ordinary, of course.
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