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Blue Bob #12 & #35

Steve Justice Painting Title: Blue Bob #12 & 35 Material: oil on canvas Size: 30x20 2013 “The songs were easy to write and seemed to float downstream with the current. It’s not like they’d been faint or far away — they were right there in my face, but if you’d look too steady at them, they’d be gone.” -- Bob Dylan Title: Blue Bob #12 & 35
Material: oil on canvas
Size: 30×20
2013     SOLD

 

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.

— Bob Dylan

How does it feel?

This title is a very thinly veiled reference to Dylan’s song, “Rainy Day Woman #12 & #35, aka the “Everybody must get stoned” song.  I don’t know what he’s talking about.  Stoning seems so Biblical in this day and age, but maybe it was the punishment for speaking with your mouth full in the mining town of Hibbings, Minnesota, where Dylan grew up.

Potato mining had at one time so overtaken the town of Hibbings that the entire town had to be moved two miles upwind.  True story.  From Hibbings, the potatoes were transported by rail to the big lake they call Gitche Gumee, and loaded onto long freighters like the Edmund Fitzgerald.  But that’s another song by another folk singer.