An Insider's View of the Bob Dylan Story Another Side of Bob Dylan, by Victor and Jacob Maymudes On Point discussion with Jacob Maymudes and Tom Ashbrook NPR rebroadcasts this, repeats tonight on WBUR at 8pm Eastern. Related articles A Dylan Insider's Back Pages 6 … [Read more...]
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DYLAN’S TRACKS GLORIOUSLY BLOODED: Chuck Rips
...Mr. Ricks’ work is filled with offhand Empsonian brilliance, uncanny erudition and a belief in literary value that will, hopefully, finally shut up the poorly read types who waste time questioning whether Dylan’s works have earned the "right" to be called poetry. What a useless argument: Of … [Read more...]
2017 LIST
2017 LISTS Bob Dylan, Triplicate (Columbia) Beck, Colors (Capitol/Virgin EMI) Kendrick Lamar, Damn (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) Various, Afro Beats Hot Hits (Shanachie) Arcade Fire, Everything Now (Columbia) Saint Etienne, Home Counties (Heavenly) Old Crow Medicine Show, 50 … [Read more...]
January Leftovers:
Happens every year, I haul out all my data and assemble a best-of list and submit to Village Voice pazznjop poll. Always find something new somebody else has discovered, always forget a couple titles that should have made my own list. This one's weird: could have easily topped my list, and you don't … [Read more...]
Sweet November, or Whither Anthony Newley
Dylan's Nobel Extra points for how the announcement landed on Paul Simon's 75th birthday (October 13). I like what Milo Miles wrote: Like many an academically beloved poet — say, Ezra Pound or T. S. Eliot — Mr. Dylan has always placed himself on a literary continuum where allusions focus and … [Read more...]
Marching Through Springsteen Chapter Titles: Definitive Pianists, Composers to Follow
Bruce Springsteen's memoirs announced, sample chapters include: Blood on the Turnpike, Human Town, Lucky Touch, Hear Those Tires SQUEAL, Chuck Berry Stole All My Riffs (So I Stole Some Song Titles), Prince Almost Stole My Mojo, Hitchhiking to We Are the World, Leftover Songs for Breakfast, Car Parts … [Read more...]
Modified Limited November Hangout: Lowdown on the UpClick
There Is No White Race by Walter Mosley (July 9, 2014) "The white race is a fiction created by aggressive colonization and slavery. In the colonies destined to become the United States, the European colonists found themselves pitted against the indigenous (red) people while enslaving Africans … [Read more...]
Links Gone Wild: September Gurl Clicks
Love and Mercy The Brian Wilson of Your Dreams A film of great ambition and daring, with performances than extend, rather than rescue, the script. And a soundtrack for the ages, both in Wilson's primary material (and cunning recreations of studio sessions), and the interior soundscapes by Trent … [Read more...]
Pazz, Jop, Flop, Fly
Pazz & Jop went up, with these album results: 1 D'Angelo, Black Messiah RCA Points: 2008 Mentions: 163 2 Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2 Mass Appeal Points: 1734 Mentions: 163 3 The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream Secretly Canadian Points: 1244 Mentions: … [Read more...]
Sorkin HBO Rape UVA Rolling Stone Snowden #Keywords
Lots of good ink on The Newsroom's rape episode, but it's not like West Wing didn't already prove this megalomaniac's zeal for self-aggrandizement... Remember when he stopped production to compose his very own post-9/11 special episode, Isaac and Ishamel (Season 3, Ep. 3)? (Reminds me of Dylan … [Read more...]
Spotify Lightning: Right Spark, Wrong Rod
COVERS Bill Murray, Dylan's "Shelter From the Storm," St. Vincent closing credits SPOTIFY COVERAGE STILL WEAK In The New Yorker, John Seabrook leaves the reader asking the single most pertinent, obvious yet invisible question coursing through this non-story: why would anybody rely on "record … [Read more...]
Chris Smither
Chris Smither's 70th birthday release, minus some missing liner notes that completely misdirected listeners: Never mind that Eric Von Schmidt gave him an early break by inviting him onstage at Passim's in Harvard Square, or that the Boston Music Awards granted him Best Folk Artist status. Chris … [Read more...]
Nixon in Purgatory, plus: Obama’s Words to Live By: Harry Shearer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD46pHpRVzo MORE: https://soundcloud.com/leshowharryshearer/le-show-with-harry-shearer-august-10th-2014#t=38:48 Nixon at 38:48 https://soundcloud.com/leshowharryshearer/le-show-with-harry-shearer-august-3rd-2014#t=37:56 "We Tortured Some Folks" at … [Read more...]
Buried in the Files: That Eric Alper entry
Moondog Matinee, The Band (Capitol) I first fell in love with this record growing up in Boulder, Colorado, after I saw Dylan play with the Band at the Denver Coliseum in early 1974. I had Planet Waves in my ear, and knew the early Band albums, but this record hovered over them all with an aura of … [Read more...]