Something Is Happening
The folk singers and protest marchers who drifted around the edges in the Sixties thought they were heralding a revolution, thought they were the cutting edge of a grand tradition, but they were the death throes of that tradition, Woody Guthrie’s stillborn children, their peaceful revolution was a last fling before the global corporation’s final lock down.
That’s why they went up in arms when Dylan went electric and began writing songs like Desolation Row and Ballad of a Thin Man. They knew something was happening, but they didn’t know what it was, shaking tambourines at the sky and singing we shall overcome in the fast-approaching darkness.
