Dylan’s recent tour (which ended Friday night in Portugal) didn’t include very much in the way of big surprises in the set lists, but one exception was June 27th in Vigo, Spain, when the eleventh song of the evening was none other than Handy Dandy. It was Dylan’s first ever live performance of this curious tune from 1990’s Under the Red Sky. It was greatly rearranged. My own thought is that it gets going about halfway through when Bob really starts singing. Click here for clip.

He’s got that clear crystal fountain
He’s got that soft silky skin
He’s got that fortress on the mountain
With no doors, no windows, no thieves can break in

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In the news today are some extracts from a newly-released 1969 interview with John Lennon, in which he offered another angle on what was behind his “the Beatles are bigger than Jesus” quote, and talked about his experience with the Church of England, among other things. It contributes to the view of Lennon as someone who clearly searched for God throughout his life. See also his correspondence with televangelist Oral Roberts in 1972. But he appears to have been too restless a spirit to ever accept any kind of submission. In the final end, I guess, God knows what was in his heart.

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