Bob Dylan is 71 years old today. May his music live forever. I used to think that only he and Joan Baez were capable of singing his songs, but there have been so many good covers of his work in recent years, from artists who have broken away from his style, that I’ve revised that [...]
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She may have been singing this back to Bob
Posted in Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Music on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
N.T. Wright sings Dylan
Posted in Bob Dylan, Humor, Music, Religion on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This works a whole lot better if you know who N.T. Wright is. Anglican bishop, author, speaker, New Testament scholar, theologian. “N.T.” stands for New Testament, or Nicholas Thomas, take your pick. Some people don’t care for Tom Wright, but those people aren’t the sort who like Bob Dylan either, so it’s a wash. Here Tom [...]
May you stay forever young
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
May God bless and keep you always; may your wishes all come true. May you always do for others and let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung; and may you stay forever young.” Bob Dylan turns 70 today. Ouch. So I’ve arranged a party with [...]
Four Simple Tunes: #4, “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan
Posted in Bob Dylan, Four Simple Tunes, Music on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The fourth and final in the series: This tune is so simple that it’s probably the most powerful of the four. It’s quintessential rock, and this ahead-of-its-time performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 turned a page in musicology. It also made him some enemies: Should Dylan go electric or stay folk? As it [...]
Like a complete unknown
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bob Dylan’s birthday comes every year about the same time as my own, but he has had a lot more of them. Bob was born in Minnesota on May 24, 1941 and named Robert Allen Zimmerman. The name “Dylan” he borrowed from Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet whose lyrics influenced him greatly, as did the [...]
