Blowin' In The Wind

When, you know, like I said, bro, I could bring up Bob Dylan every time you ask a question.

But Bob Dylan famously said, how'd you write? How'd you write Blowing in the Wind? He said, I opened up the window and the song came in.

That's all it is.

I'm just catching things out here.

Yep, Bob Dylan.

That's the B side of blowing in the wind.

That song is the B-side of Blowing in the Wind.

But I would guess if you were to do a poll, more people think of it as a Peter, Paul, and Mary song.

I think it charted higher.

a single song.

I mean, Blowing in the Wind probably nudged American culture far enough that it started the wheels of us pulling out of Vietnam and we shall overcome had a lot to do with, you know, manufacturing the entire civil rights movement.

So these, these songs, um, for whatever they're worth, um, they, they end up moving people and into action and changing people's opinions.

And, um, you know, they become the center point of, of political movements and, and, And I think they're important.

A year.

[laughs] It was before Blowing in the Wind from Bob Dylan came out.

Yeah.

I think.

I, I, it, I, I mean, it is, and it's a, it's a, it's a beautiful, um, immersive, interactive experience.

I mean, there's hands-on things that you can, you know, touch and play with and, you know, kind of mix your own version of, I can't remember, it's Blowin' in the Wind or something.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, it's pretty-

You might have remembered Billie Holiday's song way back, 60s, 70s, a song called Strange Fruit, which was about racial tension in America.

There was Bob Dylan's song, Blowing in the Wind, which was asking about how many roads can a man walk down until everybody is created equal.

There are other protest songs and maybe they're a little bit more closer

to our time.

I was, you know, 14, 15 years old, and had been playing guitar for a year, and was into punk rock and, and everything, and my stepdad gave me a copy of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.

And I had-- I remember listening to it, thinking it was awful, um, and then, uh, recognizing, um, Blowin' in the Wind.

I was like, "Oh, I know this song," you know? But I-- that's the only one I knew, and then just coming at it, uh, from complete ignorance was, um, was pretty cool.

There's, um, a Damien Rice album, uh, called O, um, that I remember listening to with a friend.