1975
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1975
Just a couple of legends. No big deal.
8 May 1976
Started this, and then I realized Philo hadn't responded on until 11:30ish PM... so not on free.
Two items from me.
1: Old Crow Medicine Show will be at the renovated Palace Theatre in St. Paul on June 10. They're performing one of my favorite Dylan albums of all time, Blonde on Blonde, so that's nice.
2: Dylan himself has released his third album of standards recorded by Frank Sinatra. Rolling Stone seems to like it and I pretty much adore Dylan & Sinatra and think this concept is pretty fun:
Dylan moves through this area – the region of Sinatra, and also of standards songwriters like Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein – as if it's territory for him to chart and command.
I know we've covered 'covers' here before, but feel free to rehash any you find particularly well done.
Drop Your Sword List.
This got some pretty good play yesterday, but I was very pleased to hear about Bob's Nobel. I'm an admitted fan of his music, but he's one of the few artists who I go out of my way to listen to the lyrics.
Provided you view this as a "musician" receiving the Nobel for Literature, which author do you think would (or does) make a great lyricist? If you're feeling ambitious, offer a sample of their work and maybe a hint to the genre/sound you imagine they'd be set to.
In the key of What Is And What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin:
They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one
and reappeared again and they were black in the sun
and they rode out of that vanished sea like burnt phantoms
with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not realand they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake
and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again
and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars...
An Ambuscado by The Blood Meridians
Congrats, Zimmy!
What?
4 July 1986
Pretty sure that's The Heartbreakers. Anyone care to refute me?
(Sorry, we're a couple days late on this:)
Congratulations, you crazy kids. Happy 26th.
1971
Here's one for all the damn hippies out there.
31 December 1981
Their voices just don't quite mesh, now do they?
Speaks for itself.
2005
50 years ago today, Dylan. Went. ELECTRIC!
1965