{"id":623,"date":"2006-05-12T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T05:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/05\/wicked_messenger\/"},"modified":"2006-05-12T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T05:20:14","slug":"wicked_messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/05\/wicked_messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"WICKED MESSENGER"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTHE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA
\n<\/B>by Michael Gray (832 pp, Continuum)

While not the David
\nThomson<\/A> of rock, Gray aims pretty high, and hits enough marks to
\nkeep you going back for more (see Marcus, Greil, and Lee, CP). Without ever
\ndescribing his tone or solo style, his incisive entry on Robbie
\nRobertson spins your head around several lampposts: <\/p>\n

…In
\n2005 he saw the rease of another of his rewriting of history, a 5-CD
\nplus one DVD set titled THE BAND: A MUSICAL HISTORY, in which he
\nre-mastered his own choices of material from Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks’
\n1963 single ‘Who Do You Love’ through to the combined Band and Staple
\nSingers performing Robertson’s ‘The Weight’ in a studio in 1977 for
\ninclusion in the LAST WALTZ movie–THE NOTES TO WHICH FUDGE OVER THE
\nDATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING FOR QUITE A NUMBER OF THOSE ITEMS ONCE
\nCLAIMED AS COMING FROM THE BASEMENT TAPES SESSIONS… the re-masters
\ninclude ‘Can YOU Please Crawl Out Your Window?’ single from 1965, ‘Tell
\nMe Mama’ and ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ live from Liverpool May 1966,
\n‘Odds and Ends’ from the Basement Tapes 1967, ‘I Ain’t Got No Home’ from
\nthe Guthrie Memorial Concert in 1968, ‘Forever Young’ from PLANET WAVES
\nrecordedin 1973, and ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ and ‘Highway 61
\nRevisited’ from the 1974 come-back tour… [emphasis added] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All this and NO entry for Peter Stone Brown<\/A>, tsk tsk.


\npub date: June 15, 2006

Continuum<\/A>
Michael
\nGray’s Blog<\/A>


\n BLOG OF THE WEEK <\/B>

Coolfer<\/A>, it’s
\ndaily music industry news links are… CONDI-licious.

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