Blog: Carnival Saloon

Elvis Presley died 32 years ago today. Continuing Carnival Saloon's Elvis Month I'm marking the occasion with some truly unique tributes to the King. Like many of my more outré recent musical discoveries it was Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour that introduced me to the song-poem phenomenon . On his Presidents Day show Bob played a remarkable track about a remarkable man called Jimmy Carter Says Yes . It's the sort of song you can't imagine anyone ever making. Which is true of most song-poems. If the concept [...]