[Bob Dylan met Woody Guthrie for the first time in February 1961 at Greystone Hospital, New Jersey.] It was the beginning of a deep friendship between the two. Although they were separated by thirty years and two generations, they were united by a love of music, a kindred sense of humour and a common view toward the world. - from the sleeve notes to the album Bob Dylan, released in March 1962 by Colombia Records. [Moving to New York, Dylan continued] as he has since he was ten, to assimilate musical ideas from everyone he met, every record he heard. He fell in with Dave Van Ronk and Jack Elliot. - from the sleeve notes to the album Bob Dylan, released in March 1962 by Colombia Records. He ... appeared opposite John Lee Hooker, the blues singer at Gerde's Folk city. - from the sleeve notes to the album Bob Dylan, released in March 1962 by Colombia Records. He listed to everything with both ears - Hank Williams, the late Jimmie Rodgers, Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Carl Perkins, early Elvis Presley. A meeting with Mance Lipscomb, Texas songster, left its mark on his work, as did the blues recording of Rabbit Brown and Big Joe Williams. - from the sleeve notes to the album Bob Dylan, released in March 1962 by Colombia Records. Leadbelly Leadbelly, Mance Lipscombe and Big Joe Williams." And, above all other, Woody Guthrie. - from the sleeve notes to the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Colombia Records. The way I think about the blues comes from what I learned from Big Joe Williams. The blues is more than something to sit home and arrange. What made the real blues singers so great is that they were able to state all the problems they had; but at the same time, they were standing outside of them and could look at them. And in that way, they had them beat. What's depressing today is that many young singers are trying to get inside inside the blues; forgetting that those older singers used them to get outside their troubles. - from the sleeve notes to the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Colombia Records. I don't carry myself yet the way that Big Joe Williams, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Lightnin' Hopkins have carried themsleves. I hope to be able to someday, but they're older people. I sometimes am able to do it, but it happens, when it happens, unconsciously. You see, in time, with those older singers, music was a tool - a way to live more, a way to make themselves feel better at certain points. As for me, I can make myself feel better some times, but at other times, it's still hard to go to sleep at night. - from the sleeve notes to the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Colombia Records. - from the sleeve notes to the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, released in May 1963 by Colombia Records. Woody Guthrie was my last idol / he was the last idol / because he was the first idol / I'd ever met / that taught me / fact t face / that men are men / shatterin even himself / as an idol / an that men have reasons / for what they do / an what they say / an every action can be questioned / leavin no command / untouched an took for granted / obeyed and bowed down to / forgettin your own natural instincts - from the sleeve notes to the album The Times They Are A-Changin', released in January 1964 by Colombia Records. Woody never made me fear / and he didn't trample any hopes / for he just carried a book of Man / and gave it t me t read awhile - from the sleeve notes to the album The Times They Are A-Changin', released in January 1964 by Colombia Records. i'm standing there watching the parade / feeling combination of sleepy john estes. jayne mansfield. humphrey bogart / mortimer snurd. murph the surf and so forth - from the sleeve notes to the album Bringing It All Back Home, released March 1965 by Colombia Records. erotic hitchhiker wearing japanese blanket. gets my attention by asking didn't he see me at this hootenanny down in puerto vallarta, mexico / i say no you must be mistaken. i happen to be one of the Supremes - from the sleeve notes to the album Bringing It All Back Home, released March 1965 by Colombia Records. if someone thinks norman mailer is more important than hank williams, that's fine. i have no arguments an i never drink milk - from the sleeve notes to the album Bringing It All Back Home, released March 1965 by Colombia Records. i would not want t be bach. mozart. tolstoy. joe hill. gertrude stein or james dean / they are all dead - from the sleeve notes to the album Bringing It All Back Home, released March 1965 by Colombia Records. |
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Bob Dylan - Nobel Banquet Speech
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Bob Dylan - Nobel Banquet Speech
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Banquet speech by Bob Dylan given by the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji, at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2016
Good evening, everyone. I extend my warmest greetings to the members of the Swedish Academy and to all of the other distinguished guests in attendance tonight.
I'm sorry I can't be with you in person, but please know that I am most definitely with you in spirit and honored to be receiving such a prestigious prize. Being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature is something I never could have imagined or seen coming. From an early age, I've been familiar with and reading and absorbing the ...
Posted 11 Dec 2016, 15:02 by Robert Allen Zimmerman -
Shadows in the Night. The New Album by Bob Dylan
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Shadows in the Night
New Dylan album released today
Posted 2 Feb 2015, 18:20Shadows in the Night is the title of the new album by Bob Dylan, his 36th studio album, which gets its release today. A collection of covers, Dylan describes it as 'a real privilege to make'.
"I've wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That's the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for ...
Posted 14 Feb 2015, 13:44 by Robert Allen Zimmerman -
Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol 10
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Another Self Portrait
The Never Ending Bootleg Series
posted 25 Aug 2013, 15:16This week sees the release of the eagerly anticipated Another Self Portrait, no 10 in the ever-expanding Bob Dylan Bootleg Series containing 35 rare and previously unreleased (except on bootleg presumably) recordings. The tracks that have been selected for this edition comprise mainly out-takes from the recording sessions that produced the trio of albums that include Nashville Skyline, Self-Portrait and New Morning.
Self Portrait was Dylan's tenth studio album. Released in June 1970 by Columbia Records it consists mostly of covers with a few live recordings thrown in. Largely derided by critics at the time of its release (one of whom ...
Posted 14 Feb 2015, 14:27 by Robert Allen Zimmerman -
Like a Rolling Stone
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Like a Rolling Stone
posted 27 May 2013, 06:12I been all over these United States, but I ain't never yet found Fennario.
An interesting and indeed, most welcome tribute was paid to Bob Dylan, on the occasion of his 72 birthday, which was also, apparently, the 50th anniversary of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (you didn't know that, did you?).
An interactive map, charting "every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about", has been prepared and made public, courtesy of Slate.com. The map claims to present "entries for every place-name in a song written by Dylan and released on some kind of album (including the official Greatest Hits and Bootleg series)." Mind ...
Posted 14 Feb 2015, 13:58 by Robert Allen Zimmerman -
Tour Dates Announced for April, 2013
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Upcoming Tour Dates and Venues
posted 27 Feb 2013, 16:28From the horse's mouth (namely, the official Bob Dylan website):
Bob Dylan and his Band will perform U.S. concert dates in April. Ticket sales begin this weekend. Visit the Upcoming Dates page at bobdylan.com regularly for dates and ticket information.
Good news for Dylan's North American fans. The rest will have to wait their turn but it's a good bet that he'll get around eventually. By all accounts the guy likes touring and the day he stops touring will be the day he drops dead - and who wants to think about that dreadful day.
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Workingmens' Blues
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