Links to Song: To Romona
What you should know about this song: There is not a hint of politics in this love song, which seems odd given that it was recorded for the Another side of Bob Dylan album in 1964 alongside a number of his most famously outspoken political pieces. Jackson Brown described this love song as “a song imbued with the struggle for personal freedom and the perpetual trap of co-dependence…. a moment when people wanted a leader and spokesman to point the way, but in this song, Dylan dismantles that.” (Rolling Stone Magazine, Issue 1131).
“That was just somebody I knew. I think I’d played this for the first time at the Gaslight, probably after hours.” – Bob Dylan, 1985*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
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