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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 ...
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.
Like the previous album, The Woman I Loved So Well, Words & Music features an expanded line-up of the band. Core band members Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Andy Irvine and Liam O'Flynn were joined again by keyboard player Bill Whelan, now a member of the band, [1]: 275 and fiddler Nollaig Casey, [1]: 281 who had been performing live with the band since 1980.
The latter was also performed during the interval of the Eurovision Song Contest, ... "I Pity The Poor Immigrant" (song) "Arthur McBride" (song)
She performed versions of "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" and "Masters of War." [9] Subsequently, Gilmore entered the studio with producer and husband Stonier and recorded the entire set of tracks found on Dylan's original release of John Wesley Harding. The album – also titled John Wesley Harding – was released 23 May 2011.
Dylan scholar Tony Attwood sees the song as "fitting neatly alongside 'Drifter's Escape', representing the other side of the coin of the outcast in American society". Whereas the narrator of "Drifter's Escape" is an honest man who "steals only in desperation", the narrator of "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" is a man whose "past success and well-being ...
Relatives of my father would pity my parents, because I was an unmarried 20 year-old woman. ... Poor, dusty and with an unrestful population (the government's main cash income is selling fishing ...
"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]