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Cynthia Ford's avatar

Very beautiful, and the guitar comes through the blue screen resonating the heart strings. Long ago, asked Dave Von Ronk, who was performing at a tiny little venue in the Berkeley woods, to sing a song I loved (can't remember now). His face sort of fell and he said his voice had just changed so much that he didn't have the range any more. My boyfriend and I and my musician brother had brought him a rat cage filled with roses as a symbol of our reverence, which I think might have assuaged the melancholy of that change. Saw him again decades later out by the sea on the Sonoma Coast when he'd had a heart attack, close enough to see the cheat sheet on the back of the finger board.

Lovely song. And rage rage. The Buddhist remembrances can just bite me.

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GerriAnn's avatar

Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful! I loved this song ………. And the presentation sir! I am a huge Bob Dylan Fan , I named my son after him….. Dylan. My “Dad” has his Entire collection on Vinyl and all the original sleeves and all……. Please share more of songs or instrument playing ….. so enjoyable. Thank you .

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The Druid Stares Back's avatar

Thanks, GerriAnn—one of my kids is named Dylan as well!

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Monnina's avatar

Thank you.

This was written when my partner and I first hooked up so it has a deep invocatory resonance. As a native Manhattanite exiled to London post divorce, a subsequent childhood split travelling between the City of London, New England, Andalucia and Somerset (Street/Glastonbury), we have finally settled down in his native Northern Ireland. A chosen acceptance of an inner calling to do the lonely Northern Work, quintessentially a triple goddess path, insistently niggling at us since 1980. 🐈‍⬛

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EuEhb35y2SM

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The Druid Stares Back's avatar

I've always liked that song--I'm a big Waterboys fan from way back!

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Scot F. Martin's avatar

Good stuff. Lovely guitar tone.

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The Druid Stares Back's avatar

Thanks…this microphone is off the chain!

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W.D. James's avatar

Down this way in the 80s and 90s it was Hap’s Irish Pub and the band was Fannigan’s Isle. Rollicking good times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teo9FtTBINU

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David Rizzo's avatar

Wonderful song and great guitar.

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The Druid Stares Back's avatar

Thanks!

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Caitlín Matthews's avatar

We call these islands, the Sister Isles in my house, no offence to anyone who lives within this arm of the ocean.

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