{"id":5413,"date":"2024-10-19T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=5413"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:38:12","slug":"blowin-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/blowin-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#8217; In the Wind (Bob Dylan, of course)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blowin&#039; In the Wind (Bob Dylan, of course)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R18q3rn84Qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are some songs I&#8217;ve known forever but never performed or posted because the world doesn&#8217;t need my version of, say&#8230; &#8220;Blowin&#8217; in the Wind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But now there&#8217;s a major motion picture on the way, loosely based on my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/DylanGoesElectric.html\"><em>Dylan Goes Electric!<\/em><\/a>, and I was recently booked to do a <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5416\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dylan-book-cover-with-movie-burst-small.jpg?resize=224%2C330&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dylan-book-cover-with-movie-burst-small.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dylan-book-cover-with-movie-burst-small.jpg?resize=204%2C300&amp;ssl=1 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Dylan-centered concert at the Dylan-branded distillery venue in Louisville, and I ended up playing this and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/mr-tambourine-man\/\">Mr. Tambourine Man<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/dont-think-twice\/\">Don&#8217;t Think Twice, It&#8217;s All Right<\/a>,&#8221; along with obscure items like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/old-man\/\">The Old Man<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/friend-of-mine\/\">He Was a Friend of Mine<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/freight-train-blues\/\">Freight Train Blues<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/all-over-you\/\">If I Had to Do It All Over Again, I&#8217;d Do It All Over You<\/a>&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/love-minus-zero\/\">Love Minus Zero\/No Limit<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/north-country-girl\/\">Girl From the North Country<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and it was fun, because I&#8217;ve been singing those songs since I was a kid, and I used to play a lot of half-assed, dylanesque harmonica, which turns out to be like riding a bicycle, and the audience clearly enjoyed the familiar favorites, and I&#8217;m not going to make this a regular feature of my performances, but it&#8217;s a decent piece of writing and a significant political artifact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;though I have mixed feelings about that last part. On the one hand, I agree with all the sentiments expressed in the lyric; on the other had, so does pretty much everybody, which accounts for its overwhelming success as a pop hit &#8212; covered not only by the New World Singers, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and Peter, Paul, and Mary, but by Lena Horne, Eddy Arnold, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other performers within a year of the PP&amp;M version &#8212; and my mixed feelings.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in the book, the appearance of <em>Broadside<\/em> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5417 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Broadside-1962-5-1.jpg?resize=231%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Broadside-1962-5-1.jpg?w=392&amp;ssl=1 392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Broadside-1962-5-1.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>magazine provided a forum for topical compositions and Dylan responded by writing a bunch of political songs, but he was also writing all sorts of other songs and never expected to be hailed as a &#8220;protest singer,&#8221; much less &#8220;the voice of a generation.&#8221; He rejected the &#8220;protest&#8221; label, over and over, and the halting introduction he gave to an early performance of the song was typical:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is here, this is just a\u2014it\u2019s a\u2014 It ain\u2019t a <em>protest <\/em>song or anything like that, \u2019cause I don\u2019t write protest songs. I try to make \u2019em, uh, I mean, I, I\u2019m just writing it as something sort o\u2019\u2014that\u2019s something to be said, for somebody\u2014by somebody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan had a gut sense that the world was a mess and admired the idealism of Guthrie and Seeger, but his politics were a matter of feelings and personal observation rather than study or theory. \u201cHe was a populist,\u201d [Dave] Van Ronk said. \u201cHe was tuned in to what was going on\u2014and much more than most of the Village crowd, he was tuned in not just to what was going on around the campuses, but also to what was going on around the roadhouses\u2014but it was a case of sharing the same mood, not of having an organized political point of view.\u201d Contrasting him with Phil Ochs, who had been a journalism major before taking up guitar, [Suze] Rotolo noted, \u201cDylan was perceptive. He felt. He didn\u2019t read or clip the papers\u2026 It was all intuitive, on an emotional level.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dylan\u2019s more activist peers were often frustrated by his lack of ideological commitment, but that was what gave songs like \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d such universal appeal. Instead of hectoring, he was expressing pervasive fears and hopes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fears and hopes&#8230; I&#8217;m interested in what the movie will get right and wrong about the Dylan story and the world around him, and worried about how it will portray Suze Rotolo, who &#8212; unlike all the other real-life characters &#8212; has been given a pseudonym, suggesting she may have been replaced with a <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5418\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dylan-and-Suze-e1728925055861.jpg?resize=237%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"243\" \/>fictional girlfriend, rather than portrayed in her complex reality. I knew her, to the extent of spending a couple of long evenings with her at Dave&#8217;s place and running into her here and there over the years, and I don&#8217;t think she has ever gotten the credit she deserves for shaping Dylan and his work. The politics, in particular, were hers &#8212; she was a full-time volunteer with CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) &#8212; and she also worked on a production of songs by Bertolt Brecht, which made an obvious and lasting impact on Dylan&#8217;s writing. 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