Bob of the world

I love this; it’s just up my street. Someone at Slate has devised an interactive map showing every place on the globe that crops up in a Bob Dylan song. From Italy to Mozambique, from the White House to the Texas plains, from the Grand Coulee Dam to Durango, everything is there. Try it and see.

To accompany that, here’s the man in a performance of one of my favourite of his songs, ‘Man of Peace’.

And… where does that song take him? In one version of it the man of peace ‘can ride down Niagara Falls in the barrels of your skull’. (For both links, thanks: CT.)

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