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Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so fugging good he could play 4 characters in one three minute
Check out a review Art On Art for the new/latest book on Dylan. This time it’s graphic interpretations of the songs, such as Blind Willie McTell, Lay Lady Lay and Knockin On Heaven’s Door.
This is weird, weird, weird ... but fun! Thanks to reader Alf for sending it along: Who talked Dylan into putting on that unspeakable wig? Read this post »
Worn by Bob Dylan in the 80s this leather jacket goes on sale tomorrow, Saturday 21st November at Philips DePury & Company. Other items on sale are a signed copy of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (1967) and Dylan 1966. To put in a bid (and be prepared to pay) live auctioneers.com [...]
Perhaps its a little early for Christmas stuff but when Bryan posted this I couldn't help but get on board with it. Did I mention that all royalties from this his Christmas in the Heart album will be going to...
We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California, which was kind of a precursor to the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. Monterey marked, among other things, the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Above, we give you Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s anthem Like a Rolling [...]
Bob Dylan & band @ United Palace Theatre (on night 1) (wflines) "...this was the first show I've seen since guitarist Charlie Sexton rejoined the band. The setlist was phenomonal: they opened [night three] with a hard rocking, swagger heavy...
Frank Sinatra Sinatra: New York Reprise 2009 The true icons of American music, and there are only a few, include {{Louis Armstrong = 3483}}, {{Bob Dylan = 16590}} and Frank Sinatra. Their art changed the way we listen to music, and probably more important, their personal style made a deep impression on American culture. Of Armstrong, Dylan and Sinatra, it is without a doubt Sinatra, "Ol' Blue...
Here's some media that I've been exploring/enjoying lately that I thought I might share with you. Six Moral Tales: by Eric Rohmer Criterion boxset The title may be mistranslated/misleading, as these films aren't really parables of any kind, but instead are sure handed stories of people grappling with love and their own moralities. These films were first written as a series of stories (Collected in...
My very, very close friend, Vicki Estrada, gave the keynote address at the International Transgender Day Of Remembrance memorial event, held at the San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Community Center . Below is the video of her speech (recorded by Vicki's wife Lynda), and the prepared text for the speech. She begins her speech with the present reality that some hate us all in the lesbian,...
This is my last non-scheduled post for a week or so. Tomorrow morning my mom and I head to my dream destination: Tokyo !!!!!!!!!!!! I am in complete and utter disbelief still and will not get completely excited until I'm actually there and am sure it's all happening. But oh my GOD guys, I can't wait. Well, I kind of can, because I still have to pack, but OH MY GOD!!!!! I would love to hear of any places...
The Times, They are A’Changin’ Come gather round people, wherever your roam… As a Southern Baby Boomer, my childhood memories paint an era reminiscent of Bob Dylan lyrics. The times were charmed for me, yet tumultuous for society; I experienced it firsthand. During the long hot summer of 1957, at the age of three, I moved from Mobile, Alabama to Camden, Arkansas. I know we traveled...
Bob Dylan once said "If I made records for my own pleasure, I would record only Charley Patton songs." For someone of his writing skills, that is a considerable proclamation and one I do not doubt. Gospel, Blues, Proto-Blues, Gut whoops and hollers, slide-finished words, gruff "voice masking" as old as Africa. Patton was so fugging good he could play 4 characters in one three minute song, make them
Bob Dylan's OTHER Christmas Album (!!!) from Jim Linderman blog DULL TOOL DIM BULB in the Mid 1970's, around the time of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album, tape traders and fans of bootleg records such as the Basement Tapes were frantic about a set of tracks rumored to be a Bob Dylan Christmas Album. It even had a title "Snow Over Interstate 80" and track listings. Not only that, it was rumored he...