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Michael Peyser's avatar

Tasty T- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Thanks MP. it's deep and blue

AK's avatar

I love this a lot. If you wrote the screenplay of his life, and the film was made, I’d be happily sitting in the theater for it.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Well AK, you may have to settle for some other movie, though I'd like to see that one too,

roytwilliams's avatar

Sure thing.

Reminds me so much of both Abdullah Ibrahim, the Cape Town jazz pianist (recently passed!) and also the diminutive Adam Small, the 'street poet' who took street 'jive' in the Cape Town ghetto, and published it long before 1994. Your knowledge of Yiddish should help you decode:

try this,

https://www.movingpoems.com/2016/05/what-abou-de-lo-what-about-the-law-by-adam-small/,

or I can send you some pics and poetry.

Or just put your head out of the window, and get Hep to the Jive on your street.

(There's always a crack (ho, ho, ho) - that's where the light gets in).

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

i'll try it Roy

Pattie Lee Pierce's avatar

Genius ❤️

Lee Doyle's avatar

Fabulous. One of your best. I didn't know any of this about Cab. I did fall asleep as a kid, listening to Blood on the Tracks. My dad was a HUGE Dylan fan. Jazz-wise, I heard a lot of Bill Evans and Miles Davis. Pretty standard.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Standard but great. Check out Cab, you'll smile and swing.

Holly Starley's avatar

This was a fun one, Tommy.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Thanks Holly. Good to see you

Adam Palk's avatar

For me Jive and the wild parties take me back to my Public School days. But Dylan was my hero too, he taught me something my family could not. True values, not indoctrination, but freedom and rhe burden that brings. Thanks for sharing 👍.

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

Rabbi Robert Z bringing values to us hungry orphans. Good to hear from you brother, glad you found your way to it.

Miranda Barfuss's avatar

"He takes 'hallelujah!' and makes it 'Hi de ho!'" My smiling toddler self eating jive sausage and watching Sesame Street salutes him, and you, for the delicious tribute. Hi de ho.