July. Just July.

[El Gordo]

That's true, but I suspect both of us have more Bob Dylan in our collections than DT. In fact the only DT I have is "Under Milkwood" and I don't like it. Give me "Blonde On Blonde" or (my current favourite) "Blood On the Tracks" - much more to my taste

I was probably one of a very select bunch of teenagers who had Under Milkwood on vinyl along with the Dylan (B) and all the other stuff back in 73-ish. The Richard Burton reading is the only one worth having. A true classic.

Under Milkwood is a great work, but if I'm honest, not that accessible to most of us, and probably decidedly 'foreign' to an Aussie. Lots of in-jokes.

Blood On The Tracks is a bit more like it. I'm most definitely an early-Dylan man. That said, there are two songs on BOTT that freeze the blood in my veins. 'If You See Her Say Hello' gets me for simple sentimental reasons that I won't bore you with.

But 'Idiot Wind'? Oh god, a great song and a wonderful piece of polemic poetry. One of his greatest slabs of stuff. Non-believers: download it, and believe.

I do envy the Sussex golfers for the quaint, pastoral simplicity of their lives, and yet I must also pity them. Dylan was like an alternative electricity through my life.

I guess it's a bit like me not being a parent.

Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote....