22 MONDO SCRIPTO
23 MONDO SCRIPTO
Subterranean Homesick Blues Cloak-and-dagger 1960s paranoia to the Nth degree. The voice in this soliloquy is ‘on the pavement/ Thinking about the government’ and warning a nameless ‘kid’ about sinister forces abounding in a world of wiretapping, plainclothes police and fur tive characters in trench coats – a stacked deck in which ‘They keep it all hid’. The lyrics, and the electric rock background to which they were set in the early-1965 recording, resonated with young people who were beginning to question government policies and tactics as the Civil Rights movement and American involvement in Vietnam star ted to reach boiling point.
First album release: Bringing It All Back Home , 1965
Limited Edition Graphic of 495 • Paper Size 28¾” x 17½” (73 cm x 44 cm) • Image Size 24” x 12½” (61 cm x 32 cm) Mondo Scripto Subterranean Homesick Blues
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