IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH,
IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY
b/w JUST LIKE TOM THUMB'S BLUES
by Jochen Markhorst

    "At the time, the two mellow songs, It Takes A Lot To Laugh on Side 1 and Tom Thumb's Blues on Side 2, fell away in the shadow of surrounding eight-thousanders like "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Desolation Row", and drowned out anyway in the deluge of brilliant songs Dylan produced in these 500 mercurial days from BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME to BLONDE ON BLONDE, shaking one masterpiece after another out of his polka-dot shirt sleeve. But when the waves have calmed down, the extraordinary beauty of these two indispensable breathers emerges too.
    Dylan author Jochen Markhorst takes the reader through the beauty and background of the songs, the genesis and the sketches, the build-up to the masterpieces and its reverberations."

    Independently published, June 20, 2025, paperback, 146 pages. ISBN 9798288946387.

Thank you to Knut Högvall for this item. [0625]