The John Keats of rock 'n' roll, Nobel Laureate, icon.
My favourite albums: John Wesley Harding and Desire.
My favourite albums: John Wesley Harding and Desire.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been. -
Desire and Time Out Of Mind here, followed by Slow Train Coming and New Morning...
... and every artist has to match him, I mean, a masterwork-album with 79 - that's a yardstick... -
I think there are a handful of singer-songwriters who come close, but no one manages to combine artist and enigma quite so well as Dylan.Comment
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Was aware of Dylan because of radio, the sixties maaaan, but never bought an album until he collaborated with my favourite playwright Sam Shepard on "Brownsville Girl". A 15 minute opus to small town America. "Even the swap meets are kinda corrupt round here". Hahahaha.
Dylan had invited Shepard to document the Rolling Thunder revue earlier on. Worth a read.
Then the Murder Most Foul piece came out. Post Nobel Prize. Gave it 2 listens. At first was annoyed by the complete adherence to rhyme. But relaxed into it and marvelled at the delivery of some of the lines.
He is a character. Probably many. He contains multitudes.
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Oh yes, and he is not only enriching the world with his lyrics but also with the things he does and not does. He makes us even think and discuss when he takes a while to decide if to accept the nobel-prize or not. He is a walking synthesis of the arts.Comment
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You may know then that Joni Mitchell wrote "Coyote" for Sam after they had a tryst during Rolling Thunder.Originally posted by Gilly Goodness View PostComment
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Originally posted by luna65 View Post
Spill the tea Luna. Did not know. Knew Sam wrote the play "Cowboy Mouth" with then girlfriend Patti Smith.
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No regrets Coyote..Originally posted by luna65 View Post
Hejira is a thing of beauty!Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.Comment
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I was listening to Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid the other day, I love it since I was 12"We all gotta climb mountains!" - Jon Anderson 2003Comment
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I haven't seen the film in ages. Must get it on BluRay.Originally posted by John Vehadija View Post
Currently listening to Nashville Skyline. I doubt many would hold it up as one of his best, but it was, along with Desire, the first I heard back in the day. My school library had a small cupboard of records that could be borrowed by seniors/6th form pupils, and Desire and Nashville Skyline were in there. Joni's Miles of Aisles as well. This would be around 1975 I guess. There was quite a bit of jazz and classical in there too, Miles, Monk, Beethoven, Mozart, as well as Yessongs and Welcome Back My Friends.... My final year at school was a really cool one!Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.Comment
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Sounds like the Good Ol'DaysOriginally posted by Ash Armstrong View Post"We all gotta climb mountains!" - Jon Anderson 2003Comment
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Desire, Blond on Blond, and Freewheeling are the top 3 for me...Comment
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Seminal albums all !Originally posted by Galactic View PostSometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.Comment
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There's a great line in the new War on Drugs album/song, "I Don't Live Here Anymore":
Which is a hell of a Dylan song to try to dance to… May as well dance to Sound Chaser or something.Like when we went to see Bob Dylan
We danced to "Desolation Row"
("Desolation Row" is a favourite of mine, it's the song that made me actually dabble in Dylan — not too much, mind you, just a dabble — when a professor wheeled in a stereo one afternoon and played it, telling us "If you can't listen to the voice, just take in the words", which, kind of defeated the purpose of bringing in pop music to a poetry seminar…)Comment
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"We all gotta climb mountains!" - Jon Anderson 2003Comment
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