Songwriting
Bob Dylan has a deep (and sometimes-mocked) affinity for rhyme. Despite the ease of caricature that this rhyme obsession allows, Dylan should be considered a master of words because of his use of r...
Music
The music of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" can be discussed, oddly, mostly in terms of another song. "Subterranean Homesick Blues" owes much of its sound to the Chuck Berry song "Too Much Monkey Bu...
Title
Many suspect that the title of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" refers to Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel, The Subterraneans. Jack Kerouac was one of the best-known and most popular writers of the so-called...