Dylan, who had almost single-handedly dragged folk music from the political into the personal realm in the mid-1960s, had made it safe for untrained, idiosyncratic voices to sing their original "song-poetry".
Thanks to cheaper labor and abundant pulp supplies, paper costs on average 13% less to produce here than in the U.S. Why drag these folks halfway across the world, instead of subjecting them to a snappy PowerPoint presentation?
Pushing for full legalization first and trying to drag these folks along for the ride can cause contention in new markets, and can also cause these people to retrench and double-down on their outdated ideas.
It will also drag ordinary folk to the polls in record numbers, determined to reassert good old American common sense over the conservative extremism Mr Bush has foisted on the country.In fact, the likelihood is that Bush-hatred will actually increase the Toxic Texan's chances of remaining in the White House.
We play a lot with that, the difference between the dragged parallel folk shapes and the more classical holding a tone or re-contextualizing the same melody using a different set of chords that's in a new key.
But the pressure had been building: these struggling, wounded, plain-looking folk dragging themselves across the stage on their bellies, their elbows sticking up poignantly, periodically standing to clasp their own hands between their own legs as if to give themselves wedgies.
Dragging their youngest along, her folks would spend weekends as members of a beachcomber band in nearby bars.
Folks who're not only still dragging Garth around, but have let him sit shotgun.
You see some folks walking around in pain, like a ghost is dragging them by their tongue.
When he had a foreground part in a song, he sustained it to the point of dragging the tempo; "I Am a Rock" and "The Boxer" were nearly transformed from folk-rockers to dirges.
