Many years ago, in 1972, I was in Perth. I didn't have much money (I was getting married a month or two later) and I was in a long disappeared record shop. One of the songs that is now part of my inner canon was playing, but it was unlike any version I'd heard before. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Seekers, Judy Collins, they each had a trademark version.
This was different - you love it or hate it. I loved it and bought the LP, most of the other songs are ordinary, mostly forgettable but the rendering of Blowin in the Wind was extraordinary, and unforgettable, whether yolu love it or hate it! The vinyl LP is long gone, and the track is now hard to find though I've tracked it down on an import version, You can hear it on Youtube at the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_bo4KU1yc
Please don't inundate the comments box with your negative reviews because they won't change my mind. There are few versions of this song I don't like, but when I want it to express an exuberant and passionate no to the daftness of a world which finds ever new and imaginative ways of making human life miserable, I go looking for this one, and in the privacy of the study, the car or wherever, add my yell of wistful protest and hopeful anger to one of the weirdest musical accompaniments to any 60's folk song. I love it!
The butterfly photo? Just a reminder of the beauty that gratuitously adorns this planet, and the creatures who share our time and place on it.
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