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It definitely does Moonshadow, good call. A movie was made of Carter's life, and it showed Bob Dylan's involvement. That song came out in Nov. of 1974, off Blood on the tracks, about the similar time frame the appeals, and the eventual re-trial came down. Great song, great movie!
Hurricane is one of my favorite "story" songs. I love how Bob nailed it lyrically and I remember as a kid having it on 45 and playing it over and over. It most definitely fired my imagination AND whilst I know that Bob was speaking for his generation long before I came along, Hurricane marks, for me, a point when he began bringing social conscience to a whole new generation.
A couple of others I thought of which have all been played to death at my place over the years!
This one marks my first awareness of homosexuality and how people do repugnant things to others who are different to them.
There's not an ANZAC Day that goes past here without me playing this one and remembering all those who died in WW1. It's also a favorite we sing whenever Mum gets the guitar out. A truly beautiful and poignant song.
Both those songs are as important to me as The Ode when remembering our fallen, including those of my family who died and those who returned and both of them pretty much sum up my attitude to war.
And finally for now, this one, which is about the Vietnam vets and to this day I still can't listen to it without thinking of my uncle whose number got picked from the barrel and off he went. He still jokes it's the only "lottery" he ever "won". I'm just glad he made it back to joke about it.
But I can't believe no one mentioned this all-time classic, a vivid account of a humorous event that actually happened to the writer! (and his legendary father was represented well, RIP Woody)
"Mother and Child Reunion" was written by Paul Simon after his dog died.
There's a song called "19", where the lyrics talk about the Vietnam War. But I don't think that the artist was also the singer or lyricist. The "words" sound like a documentary. Paul Hardcastle.
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Hurricane is one of my favorite "story" songs. I love how Bob nailed it lyrically and I remember as a kid having it on 45 and playing it over and over. It most definitely fired my imagination AND whilst I know that Bob was speaking for his generation long before I came along, Hurricane marks, for me, a point when he began bringing social conscience to a whole new generation. 
A truly beautiful and poignant song. 
