Jones, as "one of Dylan's greatest archetypes", characterizing him as "a Philistine, a person who does not see. Dylan biographer Robert Shelton describes the song's central character, Mr. Jones?" epitomizing the hip exclusivity of the burgeoning counterculture. elated by their discovery of others who shared their feelings", with its central refrain "Something is happening here/ But you don't know what it is/ Do you, Mr. Jones".ĭylan critic Mike Marqusee writes that "Ballad of a Thin Man" can be read as "one of the purest songs of protest ever sung", with its scathing take on "the media, its interest in and inability to comprehend and his music." For Marqusee, the song became the anthem of an in-group, "disgusted by the old, excited by the new. In the John Lennon-penned Beatles song " Yer Blues", Lennon describes the character as feeling "suicidal, just like Dylan's Mr. It was like, 'Oh man, here's the thousandth Mister Jones'." Obviously there must have been a tremendous amount of them for me to write that particular song. Jones, Dylan replied: "There were a lot of Mister Joneses at that time. Jones?" When Bill Flanagan asked Dylan, in 1990, whether one reporter could claim all the credit for Mr. When Dylan and his entourage later chanced on the hapless reporter in the hotel dining room, Dylan shouted mockingly, "Mr. In 1975, reporter Jeffrey Jones "outed" himself in a Rolling Stone article, describing how he had attempted to interview Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Jones was based on a specific journalist. Seems to be people around still like that. So this is my response to something that happened over in England. I figure a person’s life speaks for itself, right? So, every once in a while you got to do this kind of thing, you got to put somebody in their place. You just don't want to answer no more questions. You just get tired of that every once in a while. In March 1986, Dylan told his audience in Japan: "This is a song I wrote a while back in response to people who ask me questions all the time.
Jones.' Then I asked this cat, 'Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?' And he told me, 'He puts his nose on the ground.' It's all there, it's a true story." At a press conference in San Francisco in December 1965, Dylan supplied more information about Mr. I asked this guy who he was and he said, 'That's Mr.
He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. Jones, Dylan was deadpan: "He's a real person. In August 1965, soon after recording the song, when questioned by Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston about the identity of Mr. Critic Andy Gill called the song "one of Dylan's most unrelenting inquisitions, a furious, sneering, dressing-down of a hapless bourgeois intruder into the hipster world of freaks and weirdoes which Dylan now inhabited." Jones, who keeps blundering into strange situations, and the more questions he asks, the less the world makes sense to him. Kooper has recalled that at the end of the session, when the musicians listened to the playback of the song, drummer Bobby Gregg said, "That is a nasty song, Bob." Kooper adds, "Dylan was the King of the Nasty Song at that time." Meaning ĭylan's song revolves around the mishaps of a Mr.
#LYRICS TO BALLAD OF JANE MOVIE#
Driven by Dylan's sombre piano chords, which contrast with a horror movie organ part played by Al Kooper, this track was described by Kooper as "musically more sophisticated than anything else on the Highway 61 Revisited album." Record producer Bob Johnston was in charge of the session, and the backing musicians were Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar, Bobby Gregg on drums, Harvey Goldstein on bass, Al Kooper on organ, and Dylan himself playing piano. Dylan recorded "Ballad of a Thin Man" in Studio A of Columbia Records in New York City, located at 799 Seventh Avenue, just north of West 52nd Street on August 2, 1965.
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