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Bob Dylan

Huck's Tune

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May 31, 2007

This sober country waltz from Curtis Hanson's poker-tournament drama, Lucky You, is unlikely to net Dylan another Best Song Oscar. But "Huck's Tune" is a bleak beauty with liquid-mercury drips of steel guitar and at least one knockout lyric passage: "All the merry little elves/Can go hang themselves/My faith is as cold as can be," sung by Dylan in a perfectly crusty, malevolent whisper.

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