Its a shame the Special hasn't been fully re-issued ala The Promise, as the Boss talked about doing even then back in the day. Looking back -listening back now I realise he was singing about a past 'just gone' as Steinbeck wrote about the early 30's in '39.
Not the greatest reception so far of the a great montage of clips ..of and about a legendary song. Some of those clips I hadn't seen so thanks. They're all lining up to say I sang it first. No Townes sang it first, one of the great poems of the USA.
He laid it down in what '68. Ethereal. The line about a virgin that lives down your hall and spends all her nights with an ear to your wall, one of the greatest lines ever.
Its a shame the Special hasn't been fully re-issued ala The Promise, as the Boss talked about doing even then back in the day. Looking back -listening back now I realise he was singing about a past 'just gone' as Steinbeck wrote about the early 30's in '39.
Sony let him play the rest. Its impor...