From: opbop1@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 6:09:16 PM UTC-4, Willie wrote:   
   >   
   > I've always associated Mr. Tambourine Man with Bruce Langhorne. Heylin's   
   "Double Life" has this, though, about Dylan's trip in 1964 with Victor   
   Maymudes, Paul Clayton, and "scribe" Pete Karman that stopped in New Orlans   
   for Mardis Gras:    
   > "Sure enough, he rolled into his room in the wee small hours with the germ   
   of an idea for a song about a musical muse, a Pied Piper figure wielding a   
   tambourine and offering the singer a trip on his 'magic swirlin' ship'   
   (Dylan's version of Rimbaud's    
   le bateau ivre - perhaps Arthur's most fabled illumination), a genesis he   
   finally acknowledged in the 1985 Biograph notes."    
      
   This was sort of how I remember Anthony Scaduto described it, also.   
       
   > I went to my copy of Biograph, but it has no notes. Each of the three CDs   
   has a two-page insert in the CD case that has the album cover on the first   
   page, and the CD track listing on the last page, but the middle two pages are   
   blank. Does any one of    
   you have Biograph? If so, could you check and see if your copy has notes, not   
   just blank pages? (And if your copy has notes, do they say anything about that   
   line and Rimbaud?)    
   >    
   > I'm curious about Heylin's claim. I'd thought about the "magic swirling   
   ship" being a reference to Drunken Boat, but I hadn't considered that the   
   snippet is "your magic swirling ship," meaning that the song is addressing   
   Rimbaud, and that one could    
   argue that Rimbaud is the tambourine man (even if Langhorne did play on the   
   song and was famous for playing a tambourine).   
      
   I remember that my copy of Biography came in a box with a big album cover size   
   book.   
      
   Not sure if I still have the book, but I'll look around for it.   
      
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