Highway 61
Highway 61, sometimes called the "Blues Highway," stretched from New Orleans through Memphis and from Iowa through Duluth to the Canadian border. It was regularly featured in blues songs, notably Mississippi Fred McDowell's "61 Highway" and James "Son" Thomas's "Highway 61." Bessie Smith met her death in an automobile accident on that roadway; Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 (itself the subject of a Howlin' Wolf song); Elvis Presley grew up in the housing projects built along it; and Martin Luther King, Jr. would later be murdered at a motel just off Highway 61.
"A lot of great basic American culture came right up that highway and up that river", Robert Shelton told a BBC interviewer. "And as a teenager Dylan had travelled that way on radio. ... Highway 61 became, I think, to him a symbol of freedom, a symbol of movement, a symbol of independence and a chance to get away from a life he didn't want in Hibbing."
While "Like a Rolling Stone" was completed in mid-June of 1965, the rest of the album was recorded with a different producer, Bob Johnston, in four days of sessions shortly after Dylan's legendary appearance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival; the sessions also produced Dylan's next single, "Positively 4th Street", not included on the LP.
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WHEN YOU HAVE A BIG DECISION YOU BETTER TAKE IT TO:
Highway 61 Revisited
Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
Well Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard where can I go
Howard said there's only one place I know
Sam said tell me quick man I got to run
Ol' Howard just pointed with his gun
And said that way down on Highway 61.
Well Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things
And Louie the King said let me think for a minute son
And he said yes I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61.
Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren't right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61.
Now the rovin' gambler he was very bored
He was tryin' to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes I think it can be very easily done
We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway 61.
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Dear Barack Obama:
It has to be McCaskill to win!
1. Claire McCaskill needs to be the Vice Presidential Candidate to capture the female vote in November.
2. As Missouri goes so goes the nation. JOHN MCCAIN 50%BARACK OBAMA 44% John McCain leads Barack Obama in Missouri, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. When "leaners" are included in the survey, McCain leads Obama 50% to 44%. When just solid supporters are tabulated, the results changes slightly: McCain 48%, Obama 41%. Clearly Claire McCaskill as a dynamic campaigner can turn that around and help win Missouri and other states with her down home talking.
3. To run a real campaign based on “Change” having two candidates who are outside the beltway and that have not only the feel but the real pulse of the people.
Mr. Obama Please consider Senator McCaskill this week as you make your decision.
Thank you and enjoy your vacation time. Sincerely, Jeff Kenkel ###
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/LOCAL/80813047
Obama advisor: VP choice not made yet
If you like the way Obama's is doing so far, take a good look at one of the major females in his inner circle... The next time that she is presented on TV, notice her delivery and how she stays on message.
VERY IMPRESSIVE...
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CLAIRE MCCASKILL is on the main list---see the story! Guessing game: Who will be the next Democratic vice presidential candidate?
By Stephanie Davis
McClatchy Interactive
Posted on Tue, Aug. 05, 2008http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/379873.html
Readers' Letters
McCaskill would add to ticket
August 5, 2008
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DCIndependent: Jul. 31, 2008 - 3:45 PM EST IT'S VICE PRESIDENT CLAIRE McCASKILL --- Beneath the radar of predicable political punditry and media speculation about Barack Obama's potential vice presidential choice is Senator Claire McCaskill. Obama wasn't in Missouri recently just for another town hall meeting on the economy. If her record setting accomplishments as a Missouri gubernatorial contender and U.S. senator aren't enough, there's the laser-like down-to-earth Midwestern clarity she brings to domestic and global policy issues
Missourinet: "The Architect" sees McCaskill as attractive VP choice
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