Bob Dylan "Shadows in the Night"

like honestly all our bodies will betray us before it's over

what do you want? she knows she can't sing like she did, that's why she retired

if she came back for one night because a friend talked her into it and there was a crowd of people who wanted to appreciate what she meant to them, why on earth is that wrong?
so fucking what if she doesn't have a strong voice anymore? she doesn't owe you or anyone else shit. fuck "legacies", it's hard for people when they can't do the things that once defined
who they are anymore. you don't think she's thought about this?

i seemed like it was a nice moment, a nice evening for everyone who was there. that's all that matters.

there's nothing wrong with it, as i said above. i'm glad she and her fans got something out of it. i was just sad at what had happened to her voice. a little shocked, even. that's it.

why don't you actually read what i wrote instead of projecting all this crap onto me?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-thanks-jimi-hendrix-johnny-cash-in-musicares-speech-20150207

Dylan also poked fun at critics who trash his singing voice. "Why don't they say those same things about Leonard Cohen?" Dylan said. "Why do I get special treatment?"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/02/07/people-bob-dylan-dissed-musicares-speech-merle-haggard-tom-t-hall/23030167/

More of the folks Dylan praised or dissed

"Yakety yak, don't talk back. Charlie Brown is a clown. Baby, I'm a hog for you. Novelty songs. They weren't saying anything serious.

"But Doc's songs, they were better. This Magic Moment. Lonely Avenue. Save the Last Dance for Me. Those songs broke my heart. I figured I'd rather have his blessings any day than theirs."

Weird that he sort of trashed Merle Haggard, since he opened a tour of Bob's not too long ago.

Lol at the sketchy visual provided by the artists referenced in his "sure Atlantic had good acts but sun was REVOLUTIONARY" bit, why not say Atlantic had a lot if natural talent but sun was intelligent bob

"Y'know I never cared what people thought of my tunes but I gotta say everyone who dug me was outstanding and everyone who didn't was ok at best."

I hope his tombstone reads "I was probably better than you"

Poor Marsha Ambrosius!

If she had only had the opportunity to go compliment him, before she sang the national anthem

is dylan off his meds? what a meany.

Merle, on FB today:

Bob Dylan I've admired your songs since 1964. "Don't Think Twice" Bob, Willie and I just recorded it on our new album.

It's not half as mean in context. But who cares about that?

i read the context. it's still pretty churlish. oh well.

when will the never-ending tour end? when the heroin runs out

haha why don't people say that about… tom waits… or leonard cohen… or lou reed…

uh bob

Don't think anyone's linked the whole transcript yet:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-grammys-2015-transcript-of-bob-dylans-musicares-person-of-year-speech-20150207-story.html#page=1

It seems weird that someone who has received as much critical acclaim as Dylan has over the years should still remember and seem bothered by ancient slights. I guess no matter how much praise you receive as an artist it's never enough. Still seems a bit petty. The story about Billy Lee Riley was genuinely touching though.

The whole thing isn't nearly as bitter as ppl are making it out to be. There are a lot of really poignant parts, weird parts, goofy parts, mean parts, very dylan I guess.

A good and slightly boring album.

The speech is pretty consistent with that last big Rolling Stone interview, where he hit some of the same petty grievances. Difference this time is naming so many names. (And weird ones, too -- I would've figured him for a Tom T. Hall fan, but maybe he never listened deeper than "I Love.") Anyway, hard to be surprised that the guy who wrote "Positively 4th Street" 50 years ago has grown into a surly old man.

Well, he's got Bob Lefsetz on his side, so...

He also takes on two ILM sacred cows, ABBA and Steeely Dan. I don't think he's a fan of them being in the rock and roll hall of fame.

The song choices were confounding. A track from “Saved”? Another from “Oh Mercy”? Even the most dedicated Dylanologist would not only be disappointed, but would struggle to know the lyrics of these obscurities.

so what kind of Dylan fan would you be if you didn't applaud these choices?

Kiki from Brooklyn, NY comments in the nytimes:

"Dylan was always just himself."
I strongly disagree. Robert Zimmerman has NEVER been himself in public, always appearing in character as Bob Dylan, and, really, that has been a key to his greatness. He plays the character of an idealized, oracular, mysterious poet, ever speaking truth in riddles and indirection. He has acted in movies, but he only plays the Bob Dylan character. He plays is so well, that most people don't even realize he's in character all the time when he's in public. I'm sure if we'd known the inside details of the middle class kid from Hibbing, or the details of where his lyrics came from, it would diminish our ability to take the character seriously. I suspect that there is a highly analytical and ambitious man behind the character, but we'll probably never know.

Sam Cooke said this when told he had a beautiful voice: He said, "Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not to be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth." Think about that the next time you [inaudible].

i just died laughing at this

Kiki otm

Right. It's not like the clear demarcation between, say, Jim and Iggy.

many lols, especially at

"Y'know I never cared what people thought of my tunes but I gotta say everyone who dug me was outstanding and everyone who didn't was ok at best."

― da croupier, Saturday, February 7, 2015 2:05 PM (4 days ago)

I don't find this boring. I just want more. I'm glad that a Rogers & Hammerstein tune gets play, and I've always been a fan of 'Lucky Old Sun.' Frankie Laine due for some sort of revival. There's something so chill about this album. I had it shuffled with a Buddy Guy antholgoy and the new Father John Misty and it sort of felt like some sort of cranky-classy mdidle ground.

I want more score-settling with fellow musicians for perceived slights.

Dylan needs to do series of McConaughey-style car ads were he throws other musicians out of said cars.

Merle Haggard just knows what you need
But Buck Owens knows what you want

follow up to the musicares speech
www.bobdylan.com/news/conversation-bill-flanagan

or:
Holland-Dozier-Holland said Bob Dylan was just an illusion but Bill "Smokey" Robinson said his talent was growing, like the size of a fish that a man claims broke his reel, and we know who America's greatest living poet was, don't we?

(xp obv) thanks for link for weekend reading

Bob Dylan has second album of standards, says Daniel Lanois

stadowing e-40 on the day shift

I'll take another volume. I love this one.

yeah i think it said early on that he had recorded something upwards of 22 tracks... yeah, i'll take another volume, I'm really enjoying this album. wonder if the stuff he left off of Shadows is different in tone or the same general mellow vibe.
new noir-y video (starring robert davi!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxy_hy22CA

good video, needs more davi

god, both dylan and davi look like they're in warren beatty's dick tracy, but they don't actually need a bunch of makeup/prosthetics

still laughing at that video, especially bob's period-appropriate hair styling

kind of violent though (again)

still disappointed this isn't called Stadows in the Night

what do you mean, it is

I thought it was Saddos in the Night

This is a pretty cool performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=157&v=u_djZiswcrQ

yeah sounded great...
he added autumn leaves to his set on the most recent neverending tour jaunt.

man he looks spooked tho, give the man a guitar to at least hold or something

This is my most played record of 2015 thus far. I truly adore it.

I guess I should get around to listening to it. The only post-2000 Dylan albums I don't own are this one and the Christmas one.

It's a great record for late night listening

gave it a spin sunday and lots of tunes now stuck in my head