Audio Example 8.5:

"Time Passes Slowly," first piano break

Chapter 8
Audio Example 8.5
Page 211

"Time Passes Slowly," first piano break

New York, NY (Columbia Studio E)August 12, 1970

Dylan's first piano break—jazzy and unsteady—projects a sense of unintentional slapstick. It is like a comic pratfall with a recovery at the very last instant ("ta-da!").