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You can tell by the way he smiles... Related articles by ZemantaDylan, Mellencamp, Baez Bring Civil Rights Songs to White House (rollingstone.com)Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Natalie Cole and More to Perform at White House Civil Rights Concert (pastemagazine.com)White House to welcome Bob Dylan, … [Read more...]

Gary Kamiya on Ronald Reagan's 1964 campaign speech for that other Barry: The Speech tapped into the primordial American myth: untrammeled individuality. There must be a territory for Huck Finn to light out to, a promised land where authority--or government--does not reach. In this always-beckoning … [Read more...]

REGRETS: I'VE HAD A FEW My first brush with colored vinyl was also my first record: a yellow 45 rpm of the Andrew Sisters singing "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbing Along." And I remember a records store on the Hill in Boulder that had a hanging display of the Dave Mason Alone and … [Read more...]

You young'uns may not remember, but Sinead caused a scandal on SNL back in 1992, and got booed off Bob Dylan's stage two weeks later, all for confronting the "real enemy" as an abused Irish Catholic. It's time for a major essay on how right she was and how oblivious Dylan remains. … [Read more...]

(adapted from the hit facebook meme, expanded and enlarged) BLONDE ON BLONDE, DYLAN PLASTIC ONO BAND, LENNON MCCARTNEY, MCCARTNEY GET HAPPY and/or KING OF AMERICA, COSTELLO SMALL MIRACLES, DRONGOS VERY GREASY, DAVID LINDLEY EL RAYO-X PINKER PROUDER PREVIOUS and/or LABOUR OF LUST, NICK LOWE LEFTY … [Read more...]

Geezers and used record hounds gathered at this Center for Arts at the Armory benefit Saturday night, featuring the Neighborhoods and Burma. Most impressive opener: Faces on Film, cross between David Byrne, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, backed by Pavement, if Pavement was a really good version of The Band, … [Read more...]

First, a comment: Does anybody really think the economy would be in this much trouble if we HADN'T been spending $10b/month in Iraq? How come nobody's asking THAT question? ARTICLES OF THE WEEK Ed Ward reviews Ted Gioia's Delta Blues in Truthdig Anil Dash on music industry, Dylan Tom Carson on Veep … [Read more...]

PLAYLIST FOR ZEP AUDITION (SINGERS/SONGS): Sorry about the monitors, people, we had like ZERO notice. Here are the ground rules: no breaks, no key changes, bring your own water and leave your cards at the door. If you are performing your own material, please give your changes to John Paul Jones IN … [Read more...]

"Snagged by a sour, pinched guitar riff, the song has an acerbic tinge...and Dylan sings the title rejoinders in mock self-pity. It's less an indictment of the system than a coil of imagery that spells out how the system hangs itself with the rope it's so proud of."... (How did this ever get by … [Read more...]

Greil Marcus on "rock poetry" in last week's Guardian: The June 1966 issue of the youth-oriented American fashion magazine Glamour carried an unusual feature: lyrics from the soon to be released Bob Dylan song Visions of Johanna, which Dylan had been performing onstage, alone, with an acoustic … [Read more...]

Another TOP TEN POMO list by Jason Gross of Perfect Sound Forever: 1. Bugs Bunny "Rabbit Rampage" (Warner Bros, June 11, 1955) One of Chuck Jones's many classic cartoons with that rascally wabbit,this is also the baby of one of his long-time partners, MichaelMaltese. Here, Maltese's background as … [Read more...]

For my money, the two heros of I'M NOT THERE are David Cross, in wickedly inspired casting as Allen Ginsberg, and Al Kooper, who oversaw the BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions to make the score a delight to hear on those large theatrical speakers. Otherwise, Haynes's movie is about as avant-garde as a game … [Read more...]

Dear Tim, I too have blown hot and cold with Max Weinberg - though mostly cold I'd have to say. And I would say the same about Springsteen himself. Come to think of it, this has been an ongoing thirty-year issue for me. When Springsteen first arrived on the scene in the 1970s as John Hammond's … [Read more...]

A Paler Shade of White by Sasha Frere-Jones in the New Yorker The first and most obvious point is: here's an essay that's long overdue, of the stripe the New Yorker should have been running for at least the past twenty-thirty years, ever since Ellen Willis left. The color line is still the most … [Read more...]