I should have left this town this morning

     That one reader who wrote in to The Guardian about Bob Dylan's new album, was using earlier Dylan album titles to help express his thoughts -- similar to how Dylan himself sometimes uses language.


     Tom Harding of Northampton wrote this phrase:  "...the love and often blatant theft of pre-war blues... [etc.]"  Playing off of Dylan's album Love and Theft, which was released on September 11, 2001.

     Harding also wrote, "...how you still write great songs when admittedly you can't quite do it as freewheelingly as you used to....
     ...Referring to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his second studio album released on May 27, 1963.



     Another reader wrote that listening to the Rough and Rowdy Ways album "feels like going for a ride in an old Cadillac through an America of Hemingway and Hopper..."

     Hemingway is a familiar name to us -- the American novelist who shared his Key West home with six-toed cats.



     "Hopper" -- I wasn't sure, thought maybe referring to an artist.  Yes! - Googling Hopper, artist, we are given Edward Hopper.  He "was an American realist painter and printmaker.  

While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching.  Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life."   
1882 - 1967

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