5/10/2023 0 Comments False Prophet by Rachel Dylan![]() ![]() ![]() What does this syringe mean at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps the world? And who is that silhouetted person in the background hanging on a rope? Since it is not our intention to get involved in American politics, we leave these questions open for interpretation. ![]() The cigarette the dressed up skeleton had in his hand on the original picture was photoshopped into a syringe. There has been a lot of debate on the internet about the artwork accompanying the release of the single “False Prophet”. The dragging blues riff- very much resembling Billy Emerson’s “If Loving is Believing”- feels like a performance in a nightclub near hell while the flames of Armageddon burn all around them. It is not hard to visualize Bob and his band playing “False Prophet” “at midnight on Judgement Day in the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street”. When we hear this masterpiece “False Prophet” it feels as if this blues song were performed at a place to which Dylan alludes in his song ”My own version of You”. Bob Dylan's "False Prophet" - an analysis by Kees de Graafīob Dylan’s “False Prophet” – an analysis by Kees de Graaf – Part 1. ![]()
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