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"I Pity the Poor Immigrant" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on November 6, 1967, at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee, produced by Bob Johnston. The song was released on Dylan's eighth studio album John Wesley Harding on December 27, 1967. The song's lyrics reference the Biblical Book of Leviticus. The ...
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John Wesley Harding is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on December 27, 1967, by Columbia Records.Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to semi-acoustic instrumentation and folk-influenced songwriting after three albums of lyrically abstract, blues-indebted rock music.
"I Pity The Poor Immigrant" "Jacob's Ladder" "Ain t Gwine Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')" "Sweet Mama Janisse" (Jan, 1971 Bearsville Recording Studios, Woodstock, NY) "You Ain t No Streetwalker, Honey But I Do Love The Way You Strut Your Stuff" "Good Morning Little School Girl" "Shady Grove" "Butter" [2]
In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon observe that the hobo, "a vagabond or tramp, traveling by train throughout America and offering his services to farms to earn enough money to survive", was a "key figure in early 20th century American society", including in the works of Dylan's influences Woody Guthrie and ...
Comedian and writer Julio Torres talks about his new movie, "Problemista," in which he stars alongside Tilda Swinton and plays an aspiring toy designer who immigrates from El Salvador, like Torres ...
A fact from I Pity the Poor Immigrant appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 August 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Bob Dylan's song "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" uses phrases from the Book of Leviticus? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022 ...
The album features seven original songs by Akron/Family and three original songs by Angels of Light, plus a version of "Mother/Father" (originally performed by Gira's former group Swans, from the album, The Great Annihilator) and a cover of Bob Dylan's "I Pity the Poor Immigrant". Akron/Family play backing instruments on all of the Angels of ...