Beautiful music (XI)

I've grown to enjoy Bob Dylan's music in the last few years, and this version of "Girl from the North Country" I think is the most poignant, the most beautiful. This version only occasionally shows up on YouTube, and I wish this version was somehow available for download or on an album, because I think it expresses the longing and the anguish of the song more than any other recording of it.

If I understand it correctly, Dylan sang this song on a Canadian TV show sometime in the early '60s.

A long overdue blog post

My god, it's been . . . almost two years since I last posted to my blog! Two years!!! I almost feel ashamed of that, because I used to blog so regularly back in the day. I can attribute the lapse to any number of factors: the rise of Facebook and gradual decline of blogging as a means of social networking, a busy work and home schedule, simply not having as much to say as I used to . . . but I hope to change that going forward. I'd very much like to return to blogging, and that may require more stimulation of the little gray cells, to coin the phrase of a certain Belgian detective often played by David Suchet. So for the three or four people who still bother checking this blog, even the hardcore readers who haven't seen a post in close to two years . . . let the games begin a new!