{"id":428,"date":"2004-07-09T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T10:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/07\/dylans_tracks_gloriously_blood\/"},"modified":"2004-07-09T06:46:26","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T10:46:26","slug":"dylans_tracks_gloriously_blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/07\/dylans_tracks_gloriously_blood\/","title":{"rendered":"DYLAN&#8217;S TRACKS GLORIOUSLY BLOODED: Chuck Rips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Mr. Ricks\u2019 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\u2019s works have earned the &#8220;right&#8221; to be called poetry. What a useless argument: Of course they have earned the right, but we have the right to think to them as songs as well&#8230;<br \/>\n<BR> <BR><br \/>\n&#8211;Ron Rosenbaum in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/pages\/frontpage7.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Observer<\/A>.<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8230;Lars deserves bonus points for being shorter than his wife, and his remark that the band&#8217;s &#8220;in a bit of a shit sandwich&#8221; wins the most-blatant\u2013Spinal Tap\u2013reference award. But he&#8217;s not nearly as lovable as his ancient Danish dad, Torben\u2014a bucktoothed, troll-bearded ex-Wimbledon third-rounder, jazz muso, painter, poet, filmmaker, and arts journalist who looks exactly like the wizard-of-the-rings mountain man inside Led Zep&#8217;s Zoso gatefold. He&#8217;s also the only person brave enough to tell Metallica their music sucks&#8230;<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8211;Chuck Eddy solos on SOME KIND OF MONSTER in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0427\/eddy2.php\" target=\"_blank\">Village Voice<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Mr. Ricks\u2019 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\u2019s works have earned the &#8220;right&#8221; to be called poetry. What a useless argument: Of course they have earned the right, but we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}