IF YOU SEE HER SAY HELLO
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On September 12, 1974 **Bob Dylan** walked into the studio and recorded one of the most remarkable song of his (or anyone else's) career, **If You See Her Say Hello**. A song of stark, naked emotional loss, a haunted yowl of regret as Dylan examines the still oozing scars of a shattered relationship. The song startles the listener as the narrator by turn rages, whimpers, wails an belies all attempts at acceptance. Its a truly exceptional song, masterfully performed (lived).>>>>Perhaps Bob startled himself when he listened to the playback. Maybe this most private and guarded artist felt he left himself too exposed. Whatever. In December of the same year he recorded the version that would be on **Blood On The Tracks**. In this newer version the narrator has had more time to adjust. Not enough time, but more. His pain is still apparent through the veneer of his old-world gentility. The somber organ notes & the mandolin, coupled with the (tex-mex?) guitars embue the proceedings with sepia tones, late afternoon sunlight streaming into the veranda. Yet the pain is still there, burbling just below the surface....??">>And I've never gotten used to it,I just learned to turn it offEither I'm too sensitive Or else I'm gettin soft."??Again, Bob's performance is almost heartbreaking in it's suppressed intensity, and breathtaking in it'sbrutal, raw yet refined delivery.So first up, From **The Bootleg Series**??If You See Her Say HellO?? 
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