{"id":857,"date":"2004-10-13T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T18:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/dylan_looks_back\/"},"modified":"2004-10-13T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T18:37:59","slug":"dylan_looks_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/dylan_looks_back.html","title":{"rendered":"DYLAN LOOKS BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan thought he’d had it. “Many didn’t feel my heart was in it any more,” he says. They
\nwere right. He was a burned-out rock star. Then he went into a bar and heard a small jazz band.
\nSuddenly he felt inspired. “It was mostly the singer,” he says. <\/P>
\n

In what’s believed to be his first broadcast interview<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in 19 years
\n— to promote his new memoir “Chronicles,
\nVolume One”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> — Dylan talks about how every day he still thinks
\nof quitting and why he’s bothered when people call him “the voice of his generation.” He
\nsays simply, “these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.” <\/P>
\n

Is he back on track? Judging from the concert at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y.,
\nwhich opened his tour this summer with Willie Nelson, I didn’t think so<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> then. And
\njudging from the tone of his NPR interview yesterday, I don’t think he thinks so now. But
\nmore than any other poet\/songwriter of our time, including all the Beatles, Bob
\nDylan is irreplaceable. Also unstoppable. That’s just how it is and how it should be.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan thought he’d had it. “Many didn’t feel my heart was in it any more,” he says. They were right. He was a burned-out rock star. Then he went into a bar and heard a small jazz band. Suddenly he felt inspired. “It was mostly the singer,” he says. In what’s believed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}