Tears to Embrace

I was on another quest to find old music I left behind. The recent Bob Dylan biopic, "A complete unknown" fired me up. Using a lyric for the movie title from what might be considered Bob's true break out hit, "Like a Rolling Stone" was inspired. While he was not a complete unknown at the time, he was not the world wide phe-nom he would become after this song hit the top 40 list on AM stations coast to coast. I remember slow dancing awkwardly to this tune with girls at Teen Club on Friday nights. Hormones roared hard back then.

Bob would reinforce his popularity with a string of awesome albums. His music touched millions and still does.

A comment under the YouTube offering of "Like a rolling Stone" came from a young man named Luke. His comment brought tears to my eyes. Memories of similar sad times came flooding in. Alzheimer's is such an evil disease. I cannot think of a worse way to die than fading away. Granny Lochary, my mother in law, was physically there, but she had left the room quite awhile ago. Anyway, here is Luke's comment responding to his Bob Dylan listening experience of  "Like a Rolling Stone".

Luke

I'm 17 and My dad died from Alzheimer's recently (he had kids late), I never listened to Bob Dylan but he loved him so much,it was all my dad would listen to, even through his bad memory, whenever we put bob on he would start smiling and get nostalgia and he would start singing along, this song is the last song he ever listened to, my sister played it for him the night he died, this time he was motionless but i know he enjoyed it, this song means so much to me now and I cry every time I play it, but im now a huge bob dylan fan, Everytime i put bob on i feel connected to my dad and thats so special to me, i know bobs gone and wont see this comment lol but i had to put this out here, thank you bob for helping me connect to my father, much love to all the old heads in this comment section still jamming out to Dylan, RIP John Burckhard Sep 2nd 1950- dec 7th 3:24 AM 2024

Even painful tears can and should be occasionally embraced.

Keep it 'tween the ditches........................................

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Without any further comment, here is Bob Dylan's, "Like a Rolling Stone". This is for you Luke.