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[@Chess8548]

Scarlet Rivera uses her violin to build the intensity. Bob Dylan’s lyrics are phenomenal. Masterpiece!!

[@carlahelin5203]

That violin ❤❤❤❤

[@zappybazinga8124]

What amazes me about this is how Dylan writes about a relatively recent case (at the time) and gets every detail spot on. You just can’t imagine anyone doing that now. The song was used in the film, it was part of a campaign in the 70’s to draw attention to the injustice.

[@steves7659]

Great reaction, Saeed. Bob has always been a champion for those who have suffered injustice. Fearless writing set to great music for those done wrong. Check out "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol" next.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Amazing song! Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@johno1765]

The song was in the film as Dylan's championing of Carter's cause was a big part of drawing attention to the case and leading others to work for his release.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for letting me know about that!

[@ceceliarussell-jayne2447]

This song is a masterpiece.

[@stannelson8306]

Dylan has so much great stuff, Every Grain of Sand, one of my favorites!

[@rachelbrachman1510]

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature on 2016. In my opinion the greatest American poet of the 20th century. I just saw him again a few months ago and he is still writing great poetry (songs).

[@bjwnashe5589]

I think Dylan is the best lyricist of his era. But best poet? No, not even close. Many American poets are far better than him when read on the page. But in terms of song lyrics, Dylan is superb.

[@spartyman7]

And his cover of the Grateful Dead's "Stella Blue" from recent shows has been fabulous. Voice in fine form. When he wants to go there...he can absolutely go there and sound sweet as honey.

[@tomdickandharry7024]

@spartyman, I dunno little brother, saw him & Willie at Pine Knob last month and he barely had a voice! He was doing some beautiful new (to me) very slow arrangements of old classics but just didn't have the voice to do what he wanted to do. Still great to see him again! Last time was Pine Knob too, about 25vrs ago!!!

[@victorbortolussi2964]

" Desire " has always been my favorite Dylan album. " Sara", " Isis" " Mozambique "

[@Bekka_Noyb]

ooh I 2nd Sara! Such a heart wrenching song! ♥

[@keef7224]

Romance in Durango, Black Diamond Bay 😘

[@warrenhughes911]

Yes yes yes...

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

The entire album is a jewel. Emmilou Harris has contributed to that album too (I think to "Sara", "Oh Sister", "One More Cup of Coffee"). It's very interesting because after following Bob Dylan from folk music to rock/folk rock/blues, then on to country and vaudeville then getting to that album is really fascinating and unique.

[@Hexon66]

Wait, we're not going to talk about 'Joey'? 😉 I actually do love the song, but to me it's the proof the Dylan just likes fucking around with everyone. Same album that has Hurricane, has an 11 minute paean to mobster Crazy Joe Gallo.

[@88pjtink]

Absolutely the highest form of ART. When it produces an actual impact and effect in a society. When it raises awareness about something, and creates change. There aren't many times that it happens. Kind of like when South Park exposed Scientology, and brought it right down. Ha.

[@timfedroff1359]

Dylan wrote 20 verses to this song , 1 for each year that Rueben spent in prison. Genius

[@markritter3013]

No, Dylan wrote this song 10 years before Carter was released from prison.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Maybe Dylan's most melodic song. All time powerful classic! You gotta check out his song: Things Have Changed. It won best song at both Oscars & Globes!

[@WeWatchShortShorts]

I still remember the first time I heard that song... I was really heavy into Dylan at the time... and was driving and this song came on... I pulled over and listened to it in amazement... I saw him 10 times live... and met him once... Good times... a long time ago

[@alphajava761]

@WeWatchShortShorts I think this is the longest single ever played on the radio. Singles longer than 3-4 min were always cut to 3 min like Susie Q by CCR, Young's Down by the River and Cinnamon Girl, etc. But Hurricane doesn't have musical bridges to remove, it's all vocals. I don't think Young ever allowed the single Cortez the Killer to be cut for time so it never got airplay.

[@cynergy4]

It's a song that pulls no punches. Bob Dylan and this song were instrumental in Hurricae's release. This is also one of my all time fave albums as a whole. Many great songs!

[@stevenmeyer9674]

Great song, Shame it was based on a lie.

[@tomdickandharry7024]

Oh steven, please enlighten us with your inside knowledge of how the US injustice system finally for the first time used reverse corruption to unjustly free a black man who was justly convicted! Wtf are u talking about???

[@ChrisLawton66]

This song gives me chills every time.

[@marianclough8577]

Bob wrote this a long time ago. He was always before the crowd.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Listening to a Dylan song is like watching a movie! ♥

[@SaeedReacts.]

100%

[@darrenherbst5572]

Bob Dylan Is the goat

[@genenekoebelin8707]

They cleared his name and he was released twenty years later

[@ysteinlarsen9941]

Brownsville girl... The writing is beautiful.

[@BrucePGrether]

Hi Saeed! It's such a treat to see and hear your enthusiasm and intelligent appreciation! I'm not a fan of most recent Dylan songs, though I've admired him for a lot longer than you've been alive, but "I Contain Multitudes" is pretty fine. - Bruce P. Grether

[@ScrotusZangenpepper]

Key West and Murder Most Foul are the best off his last album.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thank you, Bruce! Hope i can to many more of his songs!

[@BarbaraABryant]

You are doing such a great job! Just keep on keeping on-you haven't been led astray yet. This song resulted in Carter's release. An aside note, I always wanted to paint (oils) this album cover and use a palette knife on the fur and hair. Also always wanted to paint the cover of Nashville Skyline and hang it in the entry of my home so people would see Bob smiling down when I opened the door; now just how cool would that be??!!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks so much! That would be amazing! Would love to see it! You might need to do it one day 😃

[@EchoesDaBear]

Great reaction Saeed! What an incredible song - storytelling at it's best, and excellent music to go with. Rubin was convicted in 1967, sentence was FINALLY overturned in 1985 - 22 years!! He moved to Toronto, Canada after release. He passed in 2014. It was his autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, written while in prison, that inspired Dylan to write this song in 1975. Such a travesty of justice!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks so much! I will look up that book!

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

Got to do the Live version.

[@mstakeda]

hi, great reaction! For more recent songs i recommend "Not Dark Yet", "Mississipi", "Workingman's blues #2" or "Red River Shore".

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@BOOMNERD51]

The electric fiddle really stands out to me as a lyrical and driving force!

[@tomdickandharry7024]

Was it electric? I remember her playing acoustic on rolling thunder, unless I'm losing more of my mind than i already know about! It sounds acoustic to me

[@alphajava761]

"Gentleman Jim" is James Corbett who is known as the father of modern boxing.

[@tracyyork1428]

@alphajava761 Correct, and he was called Gentleman Jim because outside of the ring he was notably humble and polite. Error Flynn starred as Corbett in a bio film in the 1940s.

[@Hexon66]

@@tracyyork1428 But the subtext in the song is that Carter was not white.

[@matthewdooley7855]

Dylan has such an interesting sound. Really takes you to a different time and place.

[@NBKenC]

I highly recommend the whole album. I consider it his best.

[@carlahelin5203]

Me,too. The violin hits all the way to the marrow ❤

[@NBKenC]

@@carlahelin5203 Scarlet is great (I even bought her Christmas album)!

[@carlahelin5203]

@@NBKenC didn’t know she had one. I only heard she was a street musician Dylan grabbed for this album.

[@NBKenC]

@carlahelin5203 I used to buy a Christmas album every year (even though I'm not very into Christmas as an adult). One year, hers was amongst the multitude in a discounted display I was going through. So I took a chance on it.

[@deegomez2089]

As a Heinz 57 variety, as my mother would call us, I identify with your airport "experience" and I'm American! 😩 I love this song so so much. Thanks for this 💚🎶🎵

[@WilliamWarlick]

Telling it as it truly was. Sad times indeed!

[@RichardSchaefer-zx9ig]

Excellent reactions to Dylan's "Hurricane". He does a matter of facts dismantling of the Reuben Carter case/trial. Great fiddle by Scarlet Rivera. A similar but even more egregious tale by Dylan is " The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" from The Times They Are a-Changing LP. It makes a huge impact on the listener, the injustice unimaginable, yet it occurred in my lifetime. I was born in 1953. Also I was sorry to hear of your JFK experience. It's been a part of USA for a while, even effecting white males in '60s + 70s. Long hair youths w non working car signals, not full stop @ stop signs got you pulled over + car inside inspection. I was at a Fiddler's Convention in Union Grove NC in 1975 and was pulled over by police, I had 2 girls w me. It wasn't my car but our roommate let us take it from CT. Anyway I get taken to a school and tested for DWI, I'd had 2 beers. As the reading is going up the cops are cheering, thinking I'm guilty, thank God I was .07 not .08. Like you I walked out unscathed. Peace out😊

[@stevenmeyer9674]

There is so much more to this case. Dylan discovered he had been conned by Carter during his interview with the fighter in his research for the song. He stopped performing this in public soon after the record was released. Carter did receive a tainted trial. but he was also very likely guilty as sin. He was a life long violent criminal who had previously spent ten years in prison before the murder case in question .He also brutally beat the woman who was leading the effort to get him exonerated . he was a really bad man who didn't deserve the sympathy he received.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Incredible song. Glad to hear you got out of that one!

[@JamesJohnson-ig6of]

@@SaeedReacts. I 100% AGREE WITH YOU BRO! GUESS I NEED TO LISTEN A FEW HUNDRED MORE TIMES!

[@shocklobster6266]

Loving your Dylan reactions

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thank you!

[@maryjomuser8116]

Ballad of a thin man off of Highway 61 ,he always sings at his shows. the basic story has always been that it was written about a journalist or journalists whose questions Dylan was sick of answering - and Dylan’s go-to response to someone who annoyed him was pretty much always to write a song about them…

[@warrenhughes911]

Yessir.. great reaction again bro Bob is too much... SHAKESPEARE WITH A GUITAR.!!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Incredible! Thanks for watching!

[@JamesJohnson-ig6of]

BRO A couple more recent Dylan masterpieces are: "Not Dark Yet" & "Things Have Changed"; Original studio versions please! THANK YOU! From Minnesota.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@atlebakken671]

I like your take on Dylan. I spent 40 years digging down in his lyrics and music. I find something new all the time, and I never finish understanding it all. Its addictive. Check out "Ballad of a Thin Man"

[@SaeedReacts.]

Love songs that you can keep exploring for so long and still come up with new interpretations. Thanks for watching and the recommendation.

[@thaddeuspinkney5823]

I am old enough to remember Rubin Caster boxing , the arrest and subsequent trial and conviction. I also remember when this song came out. It was very critical in bringing about attention the case, resulting in Ruben's release. Quite a travesty of justice.

[@BernardHodgson]

Rubin Carter

[@MikeWalsh-f1g]

Saeed my favorite more recent Dylan song is Everything Is Broken.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@maryjomuser8116]

Dylan met Carter in prison The song was released on the album Desire in January 1976, making the Carter case known to a broader public. "Hurricane" is credited with gaining popular support to Carter's defense. During the fall tour preceding Desire's release, Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue played a benefit concert for Carter in New York City's Madison Square Garden, raising $100,000.

[@aaronhaupert3015]

Check out the live version too, you won't be disappointed.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Will add it to my list! Thanks!

[@brianm4550]

Another great job Saeed. Thanks again for doing what you do, we all appreciate it!! Another great song by Bob, probably my favorite!!👍🙏

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thank so much!

[@hongfang2348]

For me, this song gets better with time.

[@CosmicVagabondPixie]

Hi WoW i am so happy you are going thru Bob Dylans Masterpieces he is a very **Unique Genius** being a writer myself he is my **Hero** & sorta nemesis heh tho i know NOT to ever compare yourself to anyone else but yea my LUV for Dylan is Strong!

[@jessierivera3216]

One of the best songs ever❣️Thank you for doing this one❤️ Dylan is a musical and poetic master-another stellar reaction Saeed!💖

[@SaeedReacts.]

Amazing song! Thanks so much for watching!

[@stuarthastie6374]

The way I heard it, Dylan visited Reuben in ja and maybe took notes oh just memorised what he had to say.

[@fanfan8964]

Bob Dylan, what a legend !! Thank you so mutch 🇫🇷🇫🇷👍👍

[@SaeedReacts.]

Incredible song! Thanks for watching!

[@tonybennett4159]

Interesting that Dylan came out of the folk revival of the 60s which also featured talents like Judy Collins and Joan Baez who was Dylan's one time companion. One key aspect was that many of the songs from that movement were ones that told a story, for example "Matty Groves" and "House Carpenter" and Dylan was one among others who picked up on that aspect of song writing and ran with it.

[@lumina1104]

I'm not going to say that he's the only one to have done so, but he's won Grammys, a Pulitzer, and a Nobel Prize. I don't think there are many others, if any. who can say the same.

[@larryC1070]

The very first concert I ever saw in my life was Bob Dylan's Hurricane concert in the Astrodome in Houston in 1975.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Awesome!

[@bazkeen]

Glad you got to listen to the great song 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Rubin Carter received an honorary championship title belt from the World Boxing Council in 1993

[@SaeedReacts.]

Another great song! Very important song!

[@bazkeen]

​@@SaeedReacts.Very true

[@CelestialKitsune13]

There's another song called Hurricane by Laine Hardy that's really good. It's a song about how the people of Louisiana don't mind hurricanes.

[@captainkangaroo4301]

If you like the pace check out “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” on the Blood On The Tracks album that was released a year before Desire.

[@NCSUJenny]

Yah you are killing me! 3 of my top 100. I don't mind the DMB cover of this song either.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Incredible song. You have a top 100? That must have taken some time to put together 😀

[@vernonviz]

What got him was New Jersey. The WBC gave him the Middle weight belt, when he was released

[@warrenhughes911]

Yo, i bet you'd like: Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts.....and Hollis Brown..or Hard Rain..etc..Bob has hundreds..no shizzit..

[@TheSixtoo]

Great reactions of Dylan! Ive been enjoing watching them. A Nice recomendation is ”North country blues”, there is a Great live version of him in the early 60’s. Its not a big song of his but its a real gem, and wonderful storytelling from a really Young Dylan. He really was a wise man at a Young age. Also, if you liked hurricane there is a great live version of that too from the 70’s

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks so much! It is mindblowing he wrote many of these masterpieces at a young age!

[@jerrymorsett4622]

Ur awesome.......please play more and more dylan songs

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks! Will check out more!

[@gilevin100]

No one can create a song like that. Of course that can be said of most Dylan songs.

[@kokeshi737]

Really enjoying your Dylan analysis. I would love to hear you do a reaction to the song Dignity. It is definitely a lesser known Dylan track , but one of his absolute best lyrically.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@mmcaulay63]

Saeed, I'm enjoying your Dylan reactions very much! For a similar "ripped from the headlines" piece please check out "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" which was written back in 1963. I'm sure you'll find it very moving. I'm also looking forward to you reacting to "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". I think you'll find it to be in the mind blowing category of "It's Alright Ma" and "Desolation Row". He wrote it at age 21. Thanks!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for the recommendations! Amazing he wrote some of these masterpieces at 21

[@TheDivayenta]

True story- there’s even a movie about Ruben Carter played by Denzel Washington. Dylan would visit him in jail. The case was re opened after 20 years and Carter was freed.

[@SaeedReacts.]

I watched the film years ago!

[@teresagormley903]

I used to pass this bar every day to go to school.My sister was in school with Rubin Carter.

[@olajohansson1678]

A song with both poetry and political prowess: 'Blind Willie McTell' and of course 'All Along the Watchtower'. But the poetic pinnacle to me is still 'Changing of the Guards'.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

Great suggestions

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Beautiful songs. I like “A Series Of Dreams” too.

[@GiannaEmme]

Thanks Saeed❤

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thank you for watching!

[@Coolrockndad]

Dylan and Springsteen are the best when it comes to storytelling.

[@carlahelin5203]

Your visceral reaction to the topic is actually refreshing. Too many don’t even acknowledge there is an issue. Racism is so not ok. I’m sorry you got singled out and questioned in the US because of your name. And sadly it feel things are worse around here. Thank you, Saeed, for yet another great job! ❤

[@SaeedReacts.]

It definitely feels like it's getting worse in Europe as well, sadly. It is scary and especially when i think about my daughter and if she will have to deal with this stuff. Breaks my heart. Thank you so much for being here, Carla! Have a great day!

[@ritagryphon222]

Hello from Sweden! Another great reaction and the song brings tears to my eyes every time. Now that we see what is happening in America (and we are also affected by the election results), it feels as if something that was tried to be hidden has burst open and the darkest darkness is pouring out. Let's hope that it will be a cleansing bath and that the positive will win

[@SaeedReacts.]

Hello from Belgium! I also hold out hope for love, peace and positivity ❤️✌️

[@atlebakken671]

Emmylou Harris is doing backing vocals on this album. Check up "One More Cup of Coffee"

[@CosmicVagabondPixie]

Oh WoW & yea mentioned another most favorite writer of mine **Stephen King** Ya **ROCK**

[@peterginger]

Dylan read the court documents and file and wrote a song.

[@BernardHodgson]

He spent nearly 20 years in jail before the guilty verdict was overturned.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Devastating!

[@BernardHodgson]

@@SaeedReacts. Criminal!

[@funkmeisterB-5000]

12:02--You bring up a good point. Rubin was a tireless power-punching machine with a granite chin, and was the number 1 middleweight contender. The champ was a protected mob-owned fighter, While Carter made it clear to them he would not throw fights for no one, no how if he won the title. ( So glad the boxing commissions got the mob out of boxing in the 80's) And the racist cops who arrested him were also rumored to be in the mob's pocket..so it's not impossible.

[@stevenmeyer9674]

Also on this album, was the sympathetic song about Joey Gallo, a mobster guilty of so many atrocities. Don't know what Dylan was thinking during this stage of his career, but am relieved that he changed direction in his future recordings.

[@zunbake3]

Time to review Dylan's last tome, Murder Most Foul. For the early Dylan portfolio, someone mentioned here below The Ballad of Hollis Brown, definitely a must for a writer like you Saeed.

[@ScrotusZangenpepper]

Hi Saeed. Hurricane is a great song. Dylan actually had a co-writer for this one, Jacques Levy. You should be made aware, however, that the song does not give a fair account of the historical facts of the case or of Carter. The film is even more innacurate. It is probably fair to say that the prosecution did not prove there case beyond reasonable doubt and Carter eventually won an appeal. But that is not the same as saying he was innocent. He might not have been. The song makes out he could have been champion of the world. He was never close to being so. He also had a history of violence. The song says it was an all-white jury - it wasn't. Many facts point to Carter being guilty. There is another song on Desire called Joey, also co-written with Levy which is also brilliant but romanticises the nasty mafioso Joey Gallo. I am a massive Dylan fan, he's my favourite artist and I love both these songs but I cannot wholeheartedly recommend them because of the distortions. My top recommendation would be my favourite Bob track, which is also from Desire but is written by Dylan alone. It's the world's greatest love song, Sara, for and about his - at that time estranged - wife.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@wonderfullife7555]

I agree, you must listen to and react to Murder Most Foul.....So Deep, So Telling!!

[@edwardhubschman3610]

Yes, the movie was made many years later, and after Carter was cleared. This song helped publicize his plight, and is rightly credited with raising public consciousness of Carter’s cause. I am of age (and as a lifelong boxing fan) to have seen much of Carter’s boxing career. He was a tremendous puncher, and a good but less than great fighter. While the story of this horrible breach of justice is true, what is rarely mentioned is that Carter’s history as a repeat convicted violent offender prior to these events certainly had to have had an impact on his wrongful arrest and conviction, which if nothing else sheds some light on what otherwise appears to have been a purely purposeful and race based action on the part of the authorities. As always, thanks for your wonderful and heartfelt reaction. You are one of the most astute reactors out there, and one of my very favorites. Be well.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thank you, Edward for adding some more info and details on the background of this case. That is definitely important to know as well. Take care!

[@billpimentel-vm6cu]

It was used during the credits of the film.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@EvanBurr-p1d]

Hi Saeed, you’re a writer and therefore you obviously appreciate lyrics, those that are clever or poignant and also songs that feature a nifty turn of phrase. I’m a writer too and did promise (threaten?) to send you a few choice songs/artists from Canada that are maybe a bit under appreciated. The band is Red Rider and the song is White Hot and it’s about the adventures of the poet Rimbaud. Their biggest tune was probably Twilight Zone, another beauty. Keep up the awesome work!

[@SaeedReacts.]

Hey! Thanks for sharing these recommendations! I will add them to my list.

[@musicairplanes4884]

You should check out the live version.

[@zenhaelcero8481]

It's a really good song. Bob took a few creative liberties with the facts, but the important thing is that the song helped drive public interest in seeing Carter freed for a crime he likely didn't commit.

[@ScrotusZangenpepper]

It's a great song but I don't think the factual distortions should be lightly dismissed. They cast a slight pall over the song.

[@jwhite3359]

Thanks for your honesty on your experiences as a man of color in a white country. As white American man it is so important hear the stories from many different people repeatedly. It’s so sad that racism is a worldwide issue that is so difficult to resolve

[@SaeedReacts.]

It's sad that we discriminate just on skincolor or where someone is from. To me it doesnt make sense at all. We are human with similar hopes, dreams and struggles. Thanks for watching, my friend!

[@tomdickandharry7024]

It's called divide and conquer, Saeed

[@dyl-annfan6]

"Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" "Masters of War" "John Brown" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" "Highlands" "Tangled up in Blue" "Idiot Wind" all story telling songs, all tempos... just a few

[@lathedauphinot6820]

“Hollis Brown” is chilling. I remember him playing it at Live Aid with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. In college we used to play “Highlands” and The Allman Brothers’ “Mountain Jam” on the jukebox when we’d go play pool, because you pay for two songs and get an hour of music. As far as Dylan’s story songs, what about “Lily, Rosemary, and The Jack Of Hearts”?

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for these recommendations!

[@nicksylvester426]

Another Dylan selection worth reacting to (among the many) is "murder most foul" about the JFK assasination.

[@dilandilanjoao4310]

Hi there😊 Dylan delivers another amazing script but, only this time it's a true story that really happened. The guy was on the way to win the world title of professional boxing. Instead, he go 27 years in jail " for something that he never done" !! 27 !! And was finally proved he was innocent. Imagine this. Dylan in great shape. One word to Carmen Rivera on the violin. A girl who was playing on the sidewalk, trying to get a few bucks. She told her story live on a TV show. When she was invited to be present on a certain studio to participate on a audition. She was inside the recording studio and several musicians were there, technicians, etc, then she asks to someone Is that who i think it is ?(approximately dialog . Yeahp that's Bob Dylan 😊. It seems he was very polite but a man with few words. The rest is history. Imagine... A man of few words 😅. Take care ✌peace

[@SaeedReacts.]

I saw the film with Denzel Washington years ago, but had never heard the song. Thanks for watching and sharing some info!

[@williamdemerchant7295]

"Ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game."💲talks. The Court (Dark-side Mix) by Peter Gabriel from 2023 calls out the hypocrisy of courts around the world.

[@maggiebryan2355]

❤❤❤it was in the film

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@maryjomuser8116]

Please listen to 'ForeverYoung' and 'Sara' he wrote for his wife

[@jamietfranklin]

You understand more than a little bit. That's the unfair ugliness of it all. My heart to you for the wrongs done.

[@franksullivan1873]

Truestory

[@BOOMNERD51]

Sorry you faced that here, Saeed. Before I retired in 2007, I was a civilian Connecticut State Police Research Analyst where we tallied up crime reporting from all the agencies in CT to forward to the FBI. They had Crime in the US, while our annual report was Crime in CT, started in 1929 by the Chiefs of Police as the "Uniform Crime Reporting." Unfortunately aside from the index crimes we counted, I wound up as the Hare Crime Analyst as well: not by choice. It was horrifying how the attacks on Sept. 11th caused widespread victimization of and Arabic or suspected people in hate crimes. Driven by the shock of the attacks, so many Hate Crimes, including assault, vandalism, threatening joined the rest of these crimes. aWe we're meticulous about all our crime reporting from murder, arson, and Hate Crimes to count them correctly, before passing them to the FBI. Hate Crime was so emotional because the intent had to be hate, even if the victim did not fit the description of the offender's slurs. We were trained to count each incident when the target of the offenders hate had been expressed regardless of the victim's fitting the description. I remember defending myself with the FBI contact, because our data varies a little bit from what each police agency submitted to us and the FBI. I explained to her that each year we wrote to every police chief to check implausible cases, submitted on tape. I was committed to sending correct info even if the police department didn't correct their computer report. One town had an inordinate amount of Anti Native American Native Crime. The Chief of Police had to admit that thefts from a White neighbor from another white guy we're likely NOT hate crime. It turns out the computer system had "Hate Crime Involved" one keystroke after "Anti Native American hate crime. As I say, it was painful to see anti- Middle Eastern European go off the scales. I understand why this song is triggering! ;-(

[@deegomez2089]

This Native American thanks you for your honesty 😊

[@SaeedReacts.]

Wow, thank you for taking the time to share this. It is heartbreaking sometimes to see and experience these things. Although there is a part of me that understands the frustration and the anger, but it is often directed towards innocent people.

[@hlawrencepowell]

Scarlet Rivera is amazing, but that Rob Stoner bass is amazing! But, you have to listen to the song Blind Willie McTell. Dylan's best song about racism.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@johnrobb8435]

You should check out an older Dylan song about racial injustice "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" .

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation!

[@victorbortolussi2964]

I'm always as confused as you were when they bring Ruben to the hospital and the guy that initially survived says it's Not Ruben?

[@SaeedReacts.]

Even with an eyewitness saying it wasnt him, they still went after him. Its almost unbelievable this happened

[@ScrotusZangenpepper]

Hi Saeed. Hurricane is a great song. Dylan actually had a co-writer for this one, Jacques Levy. You should be made aware, however, that the song does not give a fair account of the historical facts of the case or of Carter. The film is even more innacurate. It is probably fair to say that the prosecution did not prove there case beyond reasonable doubt and Carter eventually won an appeal. But that is not the same as saying he was innocent. He might not have been. The song makes out he could have been champion of the world. He was never close to being so. He also had a history of violence. The song says it was an all-white jury - it wasn't. Many facts point to Carter being guilty. There is another song on Desire called Joey, also co-written with Levy which is also brilliant but romanticises the nasty mafioso Joey Gallo. I am a massive Dylan fan, he's my favourite artist and I love both these songs but I cannot wholeheartedly recommend them because of the distortions. My top recommendation would be my favourite Bob track, which is also from Desire but is written by Dylan alone. It's the world's greatest love song, Sara, for and about his - at that time estranged - wife.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for letting meknow avout that and sharing some info on the case.

[@raymondbooth3189]

Recent dylan i would recommend i contain multitudes or my version of you is very clever and witty.

[@petemora8408]

Thanks Saeed, another awesome reaction! You know, I was thinking, I believe a genius storytelling writer like Dylan (on some level) has a license to use certain charged words - not using the full word (n- word) would diminish the conveying of the twisted mindset of these horrible type of people.

[@SaeedReacts.]

I feel the same way. Pretending it never happened is way worse.

[@mejbarron]

Saeed, if you ever feel like doing a Dylan song when you have nothing from your recommenders, try the story telling song Girl from the Red River Shore. You will have no trouble finding it. I send a cover of the song just to demonstrate how this song resonates and inspires artists both great and unknown to take it on. There are many covers. All are good so far. "Red river shore (Bob Dylan cover)" By @KAPE kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHanaZKMoNZ9hM0

[@williamdemerchant7295]

Girl From the North Country and Masters of War are two of my Dylan favourites.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks so much for sharing this recommendation. Hope to do many more of his songs.

[@boosingh]

By the time Hurricane was arrested he was past his prime. Considered a "journeyman" fighter he was no longer a legitimate contender. He had a title shot several years prior but lost in a controversial decision.

[@williamdemerchant7295]

The murders were in June of 1966 at a time when racial tensions were very high in New Jersey. Carter was convicted in 1967, and finally released in late 1985.

[@johndrake7816]

May I recommend an earlier Dylan song about another factual case of outrageous injustice. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. I think it is a masterpiece of storytelling and songwriting. I am really enjoying your channel. I appreciate your intelligence and perception.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for watching and the recommendation! Much appreciated!

[@dignity0327]

Give a listen to the "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol" or "The Ballad of Hollis Brown." Similar themes....

[@ScrotusZangenpepper]

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll is an early and brilliant Dylan song about a white man who killed a black woman and got off with a very lenient sentence. However this also - but to a much lesser extent than Joey or Hurricane - gives a somewhat misleading picture of the events: a black maid died after being struck by the toy cane of a white "nobleman", but her death was not a direct result of blunt force trauma, as the song implies, because she had serious preexisting medical conditions so her stroke was probably a stress reaction to being physically and verbally abused. Also, Dylan's song says the culprit was charged with 1st degree murder, when it was actually 2nd degree, and Dylan has his name as Zanzinger rather than Zantzinger.

[@spartyman7]

You don't talk about how great the singing is, how great the muscianship is, just the story. That's a shame you missed how great the actual "song" is.

[@SaeedReacts.]

I am doing most reactions from a writer's perspective. You are correct.