Happy Days…
December 23rd, 2009 | by CW |…are just around the corner. ’09 was a rough year for many. I’m lucky to be living in Thailand with low overhead and having a predisposition to live simply. Many have faired far worse around the world at the collapse of über-capitalism’s house of cards. I just got a collection of old Bob Dylan from a friend — “In the Pines,” “The Witmark Demos,” and “The Minnesota Tapes.” Scratchy, echo-y, wobbly tunes sung accompanied by guitar and harmonica. Many of the songs are by Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly or early anonymous folk singers, describing hard times and bleak futures. But underneath the melancholy is the surging, about to bust out, young Dylan. This will be my soundtrack as we transition to a new decade.
