It's a Saturday morning. In a few hours, I'll be going to the office for some extra work. This is not my idea of a great weekend but at least I have a few minutes in the morning to write, type and mentally prepare myself for the stressful week.
I'm currently listening to an Italian version of Romance in Durango called Avventura a Durango. I used to not listen to Romance since I used to think it's just a weird Dylan version of Marty Robbin's El Paso. I'm now beginning to see that the song is actually beautiful. It's like El Paso but not so much.
Another song I associate with Romance in Durango is Desolation Row from Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. To me, Romance is the romantic sibling of Desolation because they both sound hot and bring a sense of urgency. El Paso doesn't sound urgent even though it's a song about a man on the run. Anyway, the perfect time to listen to these songs is when you're traveling around the Luzon Central Plain during the peak of the dry season.
Fabrizio de Andre, the guy who sang Avventura a Durango, also wrote an Italian version of Desolation Row. His version is called Via della poverta and it's a song I listen to every once in a while.
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