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The latter should learn to move on dot org

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[sic]. Trinidad makes the common mistake here of confusing “your” and “you’re”

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Ummm…numbers don’t?

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Dylan’s sixth album, and first completely electric entry, went on to become the most critically lauded and commercially successful album of his illustrious career.

Rolling Stone named it the fourth best album of all time and it was our 2nd Classic Album of the Week.

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“Mississippi” is the second song on Bob Dylan’s “Love and Theft”. Originally written during the 1997 sessions for Dylan’s previous album, Time Out of Mind, he was unable to find an arrangement he was happy with. (Three rejected versions appear on the deluxe version of 2008’s The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006.)

Before settling on the version that appears on “Love and Theft”, Dylan gave the song to Sheryl Crow who included it on The Globe Sessions.

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Perhaps the single greatest Dylan song never to make it to an album, this 1983 song survived as a bootleg for years before being released on the first volume of The Bootleg Series. The Spotify version above is the “real” one, while the YouTube version is an electric band out-take. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits' frontman) provides the 12-string guitar lines. Dylan plays the black (sharp/flat) keys on the piano – as he loves to do.

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Free frequently pays tribute to his frequent collaborator and former label boss Jay-Z, quoting or interpolating him often

It’s also a reference to Jay Z’s 2001 album The Blueprint

The younger generation is growing up with this album as a roadmap and guide for their life and possibly rap career

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Free puns here on the name of Kanye West’s label/clique/whatever, G.O.O.D. Music

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