Zoo Story: Bob Dylan vs. The Mountain Goats

How have Bob Dylan and John Darnielle, a.k.a. The Mountain Goats, traveled world? Darnielle often sings in the present tense, moving with caution from place to place, detailing the ghosts that live in unexplored pockets of the world. He zooms in on Portmore in Jamaica, or Galesburg in Illinois to set a new backdrop for trials domestic and romantic, personal and imagined. His geography is only surreal in the sense that it is unfamiliar, whether he's Going to Georgia or Going to Ghana. He is alwa...

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