Dolly never had Whitney Huston's three-octave vocal instrument, but she wrote this song, and sang it, with her heart. And her's is by far the more emotionally wrenching version - as opposed to professionally polished. She deserves every nickle she's made from this song.
Bob Dylan is a shape changer, for, as he said in "It's Alright Ma," "He not busy being born is busy dying." He is always reinventing his music, which is a mark of his genius. But not every experiment works. And this one definitely does NOT. This is one of those truly appalling moments that I ferv...
For those of you who remember the Reagan "Good morning in America" commercial - I'd say this is the "good whoring in America commercial" - one of the most mawkish, commercially ugly bits of drech I've seen in decades. It's enough to get Bud banned from my refrigerator.
@redman840 Your comment is truly pathetic. Sure, there were whites lynched on rare occasion. But the number of blacks lynched was staggering - and lynching was never a tool of social control used against whites. There is really nothing sadder, or more indicative of racist attitudes, than to hear ...
Fabulous song, but who actually thought it made sense to put "Girls in their SUMMER clothes" together with Springsteen in a pea coat on the beach in WINTER? Good Lord!
Dolly never had Whitney Huston's three-octave vocal instrument, but she wrote this song, and sang it, with her heart. And her's is by far the more emotionally wrenching version - as opposed to professionally polished. She deserves every nickle she's made from this song.