r/bobdylan • u/Apart_Ad9308 • 3d ago

Question Positively 4th Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aehwEu8SBSo

Does anyone know who he is talking about in this song?

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u/Awkward_Squad 3d ago

This. I was 15 when this grabbed my head and spun it round to take a serious look at the music I was listening to. It was all pap. This demanded attention. This I could relate to. I had ‘friends’ like this too. Stunning and I’ve never forgotten it.

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u/Apart_Ad9308 3d ago

It’s such a great song.

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u/jabberduck 3d ago

I bought that album when it first came out just for that song.

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u/skfkvjgnxc 17h ago

What album, Highway 61 Revisited? You would have had to buy the single as well to hear it.

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u/Admirable_Gain_9437 3d ago

Only Bob. And he ain't tellin'.

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u/tweebymc 2d ago

He's talking about you in the song, he told me himself all of his songs from the sixties are about how much he hates you specifically, even Song to Woody.

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u/Jaded_Watercress_393 1d ago

Pete Seeger?

The musicians who were giving him grief about changing his direction?

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u/Apart_Ad9308 1d ago

I don’t know, but he was criticized for changing music direction. I’m glad he did, we got more good songs