[lbo-talk] Side Note On Long Black Veil

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 15 10:37:07 PDT 2003


Since it happens so rarely, I want to register that I agree with Luke. Btw there is an interesting discussion of this song and of The Band in Greil Marcus' Mystery Train and his book on the Basement Tapes, formnerly called Invisible Republic and nwo called The Old Wierd America. jks

--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
> Max wrote
>
> > I don't think it's about loyalty and infidelity.
> > I'd say it's about misfortune -- the way of the
> world --
> > as usual leading inexorably to death. Clearly
> loyalty
> > is not the operative factor here, since after all
> > the singer canoodles the woman.
>
> Sure it is Max. It's called irony. Of course,
> irony wouldn't have any bite
> if not for misfortune.
>
> -- Luke
>
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