You don't have to be coy about any "uh, similarities" to 20th century Americana. The last two decades of Dylan's career are pretty much a cut up of those influences, he's not in any way ashamed of it or trying to hide it.
Oh I know, it's nothing new, but I do get a kick out of hearing the sources when they get identified. I didn't share that in a "gotcha Bobby" way, but rather further listening...
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
I'd like to hear a collection like the one of Presley's sources, The King's Record Collection, and The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead. Or has somebody already done this re BD?
― dow, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
https://images.bonanzastatic.com/afu/images/43a0/90b6/b43c_4185934406/IMG_5111.JPG
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
I know I've seen playlists like that... "the roots of Dylan," or whatever.
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
the “Artists Choice” comp he did for Starbucks or whatever is really cool
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
(not the same thing)
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Bob-Dylan-Music-That-Matters-To-Him/release/2927072
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:46 (four years ago) link
That does look good
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Thursday, 14 May 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
Bob Dylan's new single, "Murder Most Foul," is 17 minutes long and references more than 70 songs. We made a playlist of them all.https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/03/27/822468820/a-list-of-the-songs-named-in-bob-dylans-murder-most-foul
― dow, Thursday, 14 May 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
Lol at Dylan using Cliff's Notes to write his Nobel speech.
― Duke, Thursday, 14 May 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
Tracklist reveal
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Friday, 12 June 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Black Rider the T waits track? Hope so
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:08 (three years ago) link
Or just another co-op of a great title, cf Time Out of Mind?
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
good interview:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 12 June 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
wow, yes that's a characteristically profound latter-day Dylan interview.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 12 June 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
Don and Ghost of Glenn!
You honor many great recording artists in your songs. Your mention of Don Henley and Glenn Frey on “Murder Most Foul” came off as a bit of a surprise to me. What Eagles songs do you enjoy the most?
“New Kid in Town,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” “Pretty Maids All in a Row.” That could be one of the best songs ever.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Assume both of them are referencing the Burroughs book?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 June 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
Out of all your compositions, “When I Paint My Masterpiece” has grown on me over the years. What made you bring it back to the forefront of recent concerts?It’s grown on me as well. I think this song has something to do with the classical world, something that’s out of reach. Someplace you’d like to be beyond your experience. Something that is so supreme and first rate that you could never come back down from the mountain. That you’ve achieved the unthinkable. That’s what the song tries to say, and you’d have to put it in that context. In saying that though, even if you do paint your masterpiece, what will you do then? Well, obviously you have to paint another masterpiece. So it could become some kind of never ending cycle, a trap of some kind. The song doesn’t say that though.
It’s grown on me as well. I think this song has something to do with the classical world, something that’s out of reach. Someplace you’d like to be beyond your experience. Something that is so supreme and first rate that you could never come back down from the mountain. That you’ve achieved the unthinkable. That’s what the song tries to say, and you’d have to put it in that context. In saying that though, even if you do paint your masterpiece, what will you do then? Well, obviously you have to paint another masterpiece. So it could become some kind of never ending cycle, a trap of some kind. The song doesn’t say that though.
love this
also love that he attended his own jukebox musical as an "anonymous spectator, not as someone who had anything to do with it" which is the most dylan-y thing i've ever heard
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 12 June 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
/Black Rider the T waits track? Hope so― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:08 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkOr just another co-op of a great title, cf Time Out of Mind?― calstars, Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink/Assume both of them are referencing the Burroughs book?
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
This sort of confirms my read of "When I Paint My Masterpiece" as something like Bob's version of the Japanese concept where you constantly strive through repetition for a perfection you will never reach with the added irony/false modesty that Bob's had himself a fair number of near-masterpieces over the years. Keep on keepin' on as zen mastery.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Friday, 12 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
it's a very Ozu-like conception of art.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
The Black Rider was a collaboration — Waits, Burroughs, and Robert Wilson. Details here.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 12 June 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Yeah...wondering about time out though
― calstars, Friday, 12 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
has bob covered “what a wonderful world”? seems like something he’d do these days. not that I’d want him too.
― brimstead, Friday, 12 June 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
yeah don't give him ideas. We know he reads the Eagle thread.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
I like his comments on technology / the changing world, and young people.
― Charging for Brewskis™ (morrisp), Friday, 12 June 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Not sure if this was already discussed, but alleged credits have been posted on the H0ffman F0rums (bold emphasis mine):
Bob Dylan - vocals, guitarCharlie Sexton - guitarBob Britt - guitarDonnie Herron - steel guitar, violin, accordionTony Garnier - bassMatt Chamberlain - drums
Additional musicians:Blake MillsBenmont TenchAlan PasquaFiona AppleTommy Rhodes
Enginereed and mixed by Chris ShawAssistant engineer - Joseph LorgeMastering - Greg Calbi
All songs written by Bob Dylan
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
no piano or keyboards?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
That surprised me too.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
You mean no piano or keyboards from Bob? Well, I guess if you have Benmont and Fiona or Alan Pasqua ...
A lot of those session cats (Chamberlain, Mills, Tench) travel in similar Largo circles.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Apple and Mills are having a hell of a year huh
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
well there's piano on "murder most foul", just whoever played it wasn't part of the core band presumably
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
Just realized Garnier's been with Dylan for 31 years...or, more than half of Dylan's career.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
Bob Britt was killing it when I saw him in the fall as was Matt Chamberlain.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
so hyped that chamberlain is on the record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I saw Charlie Sexton play with Dylan 20 years ago! Great guitarist.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
That early 2000s band with Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton on guitar was the best.
― Night of the Living Crustheads (PBKR), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Love & Theft was the best
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
i'm so hyped for this record!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
yeah, me too. bob fuckin dylan!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
is this not being released on vinyl?
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
and if not, because of that Apollo plant fire? I want this record!
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
it's on vinyl, double album
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
hrm I looked at Bull Moose and then Amazon and don't see it
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
https://bobdylanstore.com/products/rough-and-rowdy-ways-2lp-digital-album
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
shrewd move bobby
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
weird I have it pre-ordered from Amazon now it's not showing up as an optionwonder if they just sold through the stock they were getting?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
I could see this new one posting pretty huge vinyl sales
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
lol this album
The usual latter-day admixture of brazen and brain-dead.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
Great show in DC last night. Stage banter update: he brought up the Mayflower Hotel and mentioned J. Edgar Hoover used to eat lunch there every day. Then he name-dropped Country Joe of all people, who was born here.
― Chris L, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
yes, amazing show! black rider was surprisingly one of the highlights for me
― Heez, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
"Well, the fish tail ponds and the orchid treesThey can give you that bleeding heart disease"
feeling this line from key west. reminds me of driving around the south and just being stunned by the natural beauty. gives me that bleeding heart disease. i think of his later years in the romantic poet lineage where nature stands in for deep emotion
― Heez, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersOnDateControllerServlet?weeksago=884&boardid=41
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 8 January 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
Oops
More tour -
Bob Dylan and His Band present the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour this fall in North America!See https://t.co/IlnO4bIndr for October dates, which go on sale this Friday, August 25.More dates will be posted soon.Don’t you dare miss it! pic.twitter.com/cCZOtoUxh4— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) August 21, 2023
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 21 August 2023 16:25 (eight months ago) link
Wow Bob's better at twitter than I thought
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 August 2023 18:08 (eight months ago) link
I was wondering about this, namely, is this his first big ticket sale since the nu Ticketmaster dynamic pricing kicked in in earnest? We all know Dylan can't possibly gaf, so I wonder what prices will be like.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 12:11 (eight months ago) link
Not sure about the other venues announced, but the last one on the docket so far, Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, NY is a pretty sweet out-of-left-field choice. Only seats a couple thousand, beautiful place, and in my experience their bread and butter is touring Broadway shows with film screenings to fill dates between. Anyway here's the pricing for that one. Honestly not insane in the current climate, though lol at the fact that having a physical ticket as a memento has become a premium perk:
FRONT ROW PACKAGE – $533.50One (1) Front Row reserved ticketCommemorative ticketMerchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasersCollectible laminate to remember your evening
GOLD HOT SEAT PACKAGE – $433.50One (1) premium Price Level 1 reserved ticketCommemorative ticketMerchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasersCollectible laminate to remember your evening
SILVER HOT SEAT PACKAGE – $263.50One (1) Price Level 2 reserved ticketCommemorative ticketMerchandise item designed and created exclusively for package purchasersCollectible laminate to remember your evening
Price Level A Seating – $133.50Price Level B Seating – $83.50 Lia Seating – $63.50
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:14 (eight months ago) link