Link to Song: Idiot Wind
What you should know about this song: This tense song was widely interpreted as a “raw slice of autobiography” when Dylan recorded it on Blood On the Tracks in 1975. However, Dylan still claims that the song is unrelated to his life.
“That was a song I wanted to make as a painting. A lot of people thought that song, that album, Blood On the Tracks, pertained to me, because it seemed to at the time. It didn’t pertain to me. It was just a concept of putting in images that defy time – yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I wanted to make them all connect in some strange way.” – Bob Dylan, 1985*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
1975 with Bruce Springsteen
Photo Source: The Strut
