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Voldar: Журнал Political Affairs опубликовал большую статью "о детской болезни левизны" Сьюзи Ротоло и Боба. Suse Rotolo and Bob Dylan’s Left Period Introduction Long reticent about her relationship with the protean and transformative exponent of American popular music, Bob Dylan, Suse (Susan) Rotolo’s evaluation of her relationship with Dylan is modest, and undoubtedly true: “Our time together fed his work. I know I influenced him. We marked each other’s lives profoundly. He once told me that he couldn’t have written certain songs if he hadn’t known me.... I served as his muse during our time together, and that I don’t mind claiming.” (p. 290) A Freewhellin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties covers the years from 1961, when Dylan arrived in New York City, until 1965, when after his achieving enormous celebrity, they parted. This period of Dylan’s career was critically important to American popular culture; during this time, Dylan composed a series of exquisite, politically engaged songs based on a folk music movement identified with the American Left. It concluded with his controversial adoption of more popular, depoliticized modes of music performed on amplified instruments in place of the traditional acoustic instruments. Rotolo’s intriguing work is the best place, to date, to assess the intense, albeit brief, encounter with the Left of a preeminent cultural icon—Bob Dylan. Suse Rotolo and Bob Dylan’s relationship started when a seventeen-year-old girl, who was hanging out in Greenwich Village, met her first love, a twenty-year-old who, in less than five years, rocketed into the firmament of America’s rich musical culture. A Freewhellin’ Time does not retrace the tale of Romeo and Juliet; it is a less common story whose deeper meaning is the narrator’s insistence on maintaining her separateness, her integrity, even at the cost of losing her lover. Fearful of becoming a sidekick to a celebrity, Rotolo withdrew from a relationship others could only dream of possessing. Tragically for Ms. Rotolo she seems to have derived no clear benefit from her brave decision. She senses that she has been “forever enshrined and entombed, also, beside the legend of Bob Dylan.” (p. 3) For all but her family and a circle of close friends, her greatest value continues to be as a source of information about one of the most dominant, and inscrutable, figures of American popular culture. This memoir, which should serve as a means of converting this depressing legacy into a gain for herself, has earned a place on the shelf of must-read books for anyone attempting to fathom this transformative figure. The reader of A Freewhellin’ Time is pulled back and forth from Rotolo’s semi-tragic loss to bemusement as to why she forsook a promising and truly freewheeling life for the meager attention of a misogynistic misanthrope. Rotolo sums it all up, by saying, “[Dylan ] was not known for his generosity.” (p. 158) Sadly, for this reader, she clings to a memory: “Bob gave me a handmade, embroidered Romanian sheepskin jacket.... It was beautiful and very warm. I loved it.” (pp. 268-269). Dylan’s extraordinary sense of entitlement and all-around arrogance is distilled in a couple of sentences. “When I was with him, he seemed to take my presence for granted. I was expected just to be there by his side as he went about his business.” (p. 183) Nothing in A Freewheelin’ Time contradicts the assessment of Dylan by Suse’s older sister Carla, “[He made] no effort of any kind to be polite to anyone.” And then there was Dylan’s blatant womanizing; with Joan Baez and others. Can “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right,” “Boots of Spanish Leather,” and other songs that immortalize their love compensate for Dylan’s narcissism? The calculus of this relationship is best left to the individual reader. However, few would disagree that Rotolo’s memoir is an important feminist text. A Freewhellin’ Time is rich in insights and information about a number of compelling (and less often discussed) topics. It presents an insider’s view of a high point in the performance of American folk music and its ultimate marginalization by commercialization, and (even more fatally) its absorption into a more eclectic, transmogrifying musical modality. In addition, the author chronicles the brief transitional period between the unraveling of the Old Left and the ascendancy of the New Left, a period that neatly coincided with Rotolo’s relationship with Dylan. Interwoven with this strand, A Freewhellin’ Time provides a glimpse of the overlooked story of Italian American radicalism. As might be expected from devoted Communists, Rotolo’s parents transmitted aspects of this movement’s politics and culture to Suse (and to a lesser extent Carla), who in turn shared this heritage to a force majeure of American culture. This last theme is the least explored in the vast biographical literature on Dylan; it is also the least satisfactorily treated part of this otherwise compelling memoir, where it had the best chance of coming fully to light. Greenwich Village A Freewhellin’ Time’s subtitle, A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, refers to the place (and what was becoming known as the East Village) and time that this story unfolded: both.of which provide a wider context for her story. In lieu of attending college (Dylan spent one year attending the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis), Rotolo “took the subway” and entered what was for her an enchanted urban village offering refuge from the miasma of the McCarthy Era and its debased culture. At times, it seems that she is not as regretful about the collapse of her relationship with Dylan as she is nostalgic for a community that offered endless possibilities for sociability and creativity (and where cheap apartments abounded). Typical of Little Italies everywhere, the Village was a district where commercial uses mixed with a wide variety of types of housing. Denoted by names rather than numbers and largely outside Manhattan’s grid, the streets of the Village are generally narrow; they curve and run diagonally. Along these storefront-lined streets, its residents conveniently shopped for fresh bread, fruits and vegetables, fish, and other daily needs. The community clustered around the parish of Our Lady of Pompeii through whose doors, every summer, the Madonna was carried outside to preside over a weeklong festa. The Italian community in the Village was neither as large nor as self-contained as Manhattan’s other two Little Italys—Italian Harlem and the Lower East Side’s Mulberry Street District. Moreover its housing stock was more modern and its population less dense than Italian Harlem and Mulberry Street’s. Nonetheless, the Village bore the salient characteristics of Little Italys everywhere. The inward-looking, tight-knit, predominantly Italian residents were indifferent to (or at most mildly curious about) the goings-on of their exotic neighbors—including those who were gay. As the landlords of the tenements and many smaller dwellings and the proprietors of the commercial establishments, they also benefited from the patronage of those rejected elsewhere. More than for any other outsider community (arguably even the gay and lesbian community), the Village was a community that tolerated behaviors and lifestyles treated with opprobrium elsewhere in America. Donald Tricarico, who wrote the most important study of this community, commented, “the students and artists living in the vicinity were essentially an appendage of the Italian community.... For all purposes and intents, they were guests of the Italian population.” It was the Italians who stayed while others passed through on their way to celebrity, or much more frequently, assimilation into more predictable and conventional identities. Although Rotolo seems very much in touch with her Italian heritage—as evidence by her devotion to grandparents, for example, and later by her extended stay in Italy where she learned the language—she expresses little interest in this aspect of Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village provided a nurturing environment for folk music artists and their devotees. It offered venues where alternative entertainment took root and thrived. Gerdes Folk City (where Rotolo first saw Dylan), the Gas Light, the Bitter End, the Limelight, all located within a few blocks of one another, presented new and established performers to eager audiences. It was a place (and admittedly, an age) where Dylan could simply roll into town and begin performing. With a sharp eye and a deft touch, Rotolo sketches many major figures of the folk music revival—Dave Van Ronk, Odetta, Jack Elliot, Tom Paxton, Ian and Sylvia [Tyson], Joan Baez, Gil Turner—and relates ways in which they interacted. Rotolo notes, “Many did what they loved to do and became known for it far and wide, and others did what they loved to do and managed to make a living at it. Still other burned out and lost their way.” (p. 131) Only one, Bob Dylan, emerged from this small crowd to acquire immortality in the world of American popular music. Rorolo makes an insightful evaluation of Dylan’s music. “Bob’s songs were in the folk idiom yet they were definitely and undeniably written in the present. The writing was timeless and timely—explosively so—and the audience gasped in recognition.” (pp. 231-232) Nonetheless, aside from some banal musings about his good work habits and ability to concentrate, Rotolo gives no hint as to what she observed during their five-year relationship, which coincided with his most formative years, that might explain how he bypassed all the others. Dylan’s lyrics place him in the prophetic tradition of the Bible, Walt Whitman, and William Blake. Did Suse Rotolo know whether Dylan actually read any of those sources? Did he own a Bible, copies of Leaves of Grass, or The Collected Works of Blake? Did he discuss extracts from these works? Did he channel the spirits inhabiting the Old Testament prophets from his studies for his Bar Mitzvah? Was there an especially talented English teacher or two in Hibbing, Minnesota’s high school who exposed him to Whitman and Blake? Whatever Rotolo may know about these and similar questions does not appear in the book. Family Politics Joachim (Pete) Rotolo and Mary Testa (Mary used the Anglicized version of Maria for her first name and the surname of her first husband, who died in a freak accident in 1937) were immersed in the Communist Party. Like other Communists of that period, Suse notes that her parents earned working class incomes but engaged in a culture that bore little relationship to their working and lower-middle-class neighbors and her father’s workmates. She recalls, “The culture I lived in [meant] being around interesting adults from all kinds of backgrounds, all kinds of music, and all those books.” (p. 34) Although Suse does not link her parents to the folk music movement, she mentions their frequenting Café Society, a cabaret located in the Village, where in addition to Billie Holiday and other great jazz artists, featured folk musicians such a Leadbelly and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. In any case, her associations with other children of Communist parents and her work as a counselor at the Communist-sponsored Camp Kinderland thoroughly acquainted her with the folk music world. Long before she met Dylan, Rotolo points out, “Most of us were children of Communists or socialists, red-diaper babies raised on Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and Pete Seeger. We had listened to Oscar Brand’s Folksong Festival on radio while still in our cribs.” (p. 45) Suse Rotolo’s Italian-born father arrived in America at the age of two. His parents were prosperous skilled workers (a seamstress and a decorative iron worker) who eventually bought a brownstone in South Brooklyn. They provided the motivation and material support to guarantee their three children passage into the American middle class—Pete graduated from high school and attended Pratt Institute on a scholarship. At least directly, Pete was untouched by poverty or discrimination. Together with his wife (and many other Italian Americans), the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927 contributed to his embrace of Communism. His path to Party membership was through the John Reed Clubs, clubhouses the party established to disseminate social realist art and encourage workers to write. Pete’s artistic endeavors were laid aside for what Suse defines as “his duty, his ‘Communist work.’” (p. 29) Pete worked in a linotype factory, where he became a shop steward for the union. Questions that arise from the informaton Suse Rotolo gives the reader go unanswered in her memoir. Was Pete one of the select cadre the Party assigned members to work in factories? Suse doesn’t name the union for which her father served as a shop steward. Was it a Communist-led union like the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America? Clear answers to these queries would have significant bearing on her father’s tenacious connection to a job for which he was clearly overqualified. One suspects throughout the book that Suse didn’t do much research to find sources outside of memories and family lore, which could challenge, substantiate, and most importantly, contextualize her own information base. She reports that Pete, whose politics were known to his coworkers, was well liked by them. After he became too sick to work, many of his shop mates visited him on weekends and made a collection to buy him a television, something hitherto excluded from their home where the phonograph had pride of place in the living room. His infirmity yielded one benefit: Pete resumed his artistic endeavors. In 1958, while starting up his car for a visit to Ralph Fasanella, a Party comrade, Suse’s father suddenly died. Mary Testa was the third of the four surviving children of the eight to whom her mother gave birth. After her father, Sisto Pezzati, died of tuberculosis when she was three, Cesarina, their widowed mother, raised Mary and her siblings in a series of abysmal tenement flats in and around Boston under conditions of extreme poverty. Cesarina took in laundry and cleaned houses; her older brother left school to work full time. Mary and her younger brother, Albert, the sibling with whom she remained closest to throughout her life, scoured the railroad tracks in search of lumps of coal for the kitchen stove and chased after the ice wagon to gather ice chips to cool the food in the icebox. The Pezzati children ate polenta every night and were subject to taunts and beatings by local Irish kids. Later in life, her mother refused to eat polenta, and Suse adds, she also “had trouble digesting the Irish.” (p. 71) Mary’s older brother, Pietro, became a successful portrait painter working in the Renaissance style; Josephine, the older sister lived her life as a liberal Catholic. In advance of Mary, Albert, of whom Suse speaks little, joined the Communist Party. Had Suse conducted some additional research, she would have found out that he did important work as a Communist. He ran for State Senator for the American Labor Party in 1940, and later served as secretary-treasurer of the International Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers’ Union, which was expelled from the CIO in 1949 for its Communist leadership. He was indicted under the Taft-Harley Act for falsely signing an anti-Communist affidavit in 1956. Albert served as the spokesperson for his union in the fight against silicosis, a deadly disease afflicting hard-rock miners, and demanded the establishment of a National Industrial Health Institute. Perhaps it was not coincidental that Albert’s struggle to save the lungs of the workers he represented was associated with another rapacious lung disease of the poor, tuberculosis, which killed his father before Albert had a chance even to remember his face. Suse glosses over her mother’s heroic political career. From 1937 to 1939, Mary Testa was deeply involved with the Party’s illegal work. She traveled to Paris, where she met major leaders of the Italian Communist Party including Palmiro Togliatti. During her travels, Mary acted as a courier carrying concealed passports gathered from Italian Americans; in Europe the passports were doctored to provide passage for underground cadres in Italy to travel into Spain to join the International Brigades. These passports later gave safe passage to Italian Communists trapped in France after the defeat of the Spanish Republic. Mary, who traveled to Fascist Italy and war-torn Spain, had placed herself in mortal risk. This work also entailed the possibility of imprisonment in the United States, at a time when the federal government was indicting and convicting Communists (including the Party’s General Secretary, Earl Browder) for passport violations. In 1940, upon her return from Europe, Mary, who had never finished high school, became the founding co-editor of L’Unità del Popolo, a weekly, which was the successor of four previous Communist Party-sponsored Italian-language newspapers—L’Alba Nuova, Il Lavalatore, L’Unità Operaia, and Il Popolo. In 1942, shortly before her first daughter, Carla, was born, she resigned from this position. Thereafter her political work centered on giving speeches and writing articles, in English and Italian, promoting the American Labor Party and helping to elect its sole Congressman, Vito Marcantonio, whose East Harlem district included Italian Harlem. Suse Rotolo remembers that Mary took Carla and her to Marc’s headquarters, where they helped stuff envelopes for mailings to his constituents. On November 19, 1950, Mary Testa chaired a banquet that attracted four-hundred friends and comrades of Michael Salerno, the editor of L’Unità del Popolo, who gathered to say arriverderci before his imminent deportation, accompanied by his American-born wife and son, to Italy. (Salerno never returned to the United States.) In A Freewhellin’ Time there is no indication that Suse has applied for copies of her parents’ FBI files, which however heavily redacted before their release, would have provided much information. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was greatly interested in all the members of he Communist Party and especially those who, as did Suse’s parents, had genuine influence. Their files are almost certainly voluminous. Among other things, they would reveal if they had been placed on the list for detention during a time of national emergency as defined by the Attorney General and detail the extent of their political activities. Rotolo never notes how her Italian-born father obtained citizenship. If he had been naturalized, he was at risk for deportation. (She mentions that the parents of her red-diaper friend Pete Karmen were held on Ellis Island for deportation even though his mother had entered the United States as a child.) A complete run of L’Unità del Popolo is deposited in the New York Public Library. Yet, there is no evidence that she read the paper her mother edited and for which she frequently wrote. Had she done this work, Rotolo might have been able to view her parents with greater equanimity. It might also have allowed her to let go of her need to sanitize her parents as members of “the idealistic, as opposed to the hardcore Stalinist, wing of the American Communist Party.” (p. 33) “Parents were baggage.” (p. 250) With this three-word sentence, Suse Rotolo imagines that she has simultaneously justifies Dylan’s rejection of his parents and her dismissal of her mother as preoccupied with drinking her way through her second widowhood. Elsewhere, she speaks more positively of Mary Testa. “[Mother] taught us about equality, that all men are created equal, and instilled in [Carla and me] a sense of justice.” (pp. 211-212) While still attending high school, Suse traveled to Harlem where she worked in support of the initiatives of the Congress of Racial Equality. She also helped organize for The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy Committee—organizations her mother and father would have felt very comfortable supporting. In 1964, Suse struck out on her own by joining others in defying a United States government ban on travel to Cuba. After returning back to the United States from this two-month experience in political tourism, Rotolo found herself unable to repay Cuba’s hospitality with political work on behalf of the beleaguered island. When at the end of a “break the blockade” rally at a college in Boston it came her turn to give a rousing speech, she was unable to rise to the occasion. “I was in a gloomy frame of mind that evening [and] in general I had lost a good deal of my enthusiasm for politics.” (p. 330) Suse Rotolo and others around Dylan discovered his identity through rumor and a not-too-polite disclosure in a newspaper article that he was not a runaway from a traveling circus, named “Bob Dylan,” but Robert Zimmerman, the oldest of two sons of second-generation Jewish parents who owned and operated a clothing store in Hibbing, Minnesota. He concealed his true identity from his friends and associates and his whereabouts and nascent career from his parents. Mary Testa sensed from her first encounter with Dylan that neither his name nor his purported background were accurate. Royolo reports, “Mother had a hunch right off the bat that the tales he told about himself, not to mention his name, were bogus.” (p. 104) Suse gives no credit to her mother for her prescience, which surely represented a fringe benefit from her life in the Party and especially from her engagement in its illegal work, where identifying infiltrators was literally a matter of life and death. Suse still doesn’t quite get what is so wrong about someone presenting himself, especially within the context of an intimate relationship, as someone other than who he is. Her continued protectiveness of Dylan, especially once she crossed the Rubicon and put her pen to the first line of her memoir, is difficult to comprehend. At her mother’s behest and by her largess, Rotolo traveled to Italy, ostensibly to study Italian. But we hear little about her studies and how they later enriched her life. She does not even chronicle the typical high jinks typical of a ‘60’ American student in Europe. A Freewheelin’ Time has no Epilogue, so the reader doesn’t learn that later, Suse returned to Italy where she found the true love of her life to whom, along with their son, the book is dedicated. This knowledge, withheld by the now unreasonably taciturn Ms. Rotolo, also establishes the rectitude of her mother’s motives. For her daughter, who did not attend college, studying Italian had multiple benefits, including something fairly rare in America, continuity with previous generations. American Folk Music and the Left Rotolo’s entrée into the small, but absorbing, world of folk music was not through any musical talent; it was facilitated by a cultural inheritance from her Communist parents with its attendant subculture. The devotion of American progressives—Communists and those influenced by the Party’s cultural outlook and activities—to folk music flowed directly from Georgi Dimitrof’s insistence in 1935 in The United Front against Fascism that Communists, “not relinquish all that is valuable in the historical past of a country, [and that they help create a] truly national culture that is national in form and socialist in content.” From the enunciation of the Popular Front until the Cold War repression, the Communist movement had widespread influence on American “high” and popular culture. Michael Denning—in his authoritative, The Cultural Front, which documents the pervasive influence of the Communist movement on all aspects of American culture—states, “The folk music revival was spearheaded by Communists.” They were responsible for creating an infrastructure including an organization, People’s Songs, a magazine, Sing Out, and an organization of practitioners of this art form, People’s Artists. Major figures in the folk music world were Communists, including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger; they along with musicologists and performers sympathetic to the Communist movement, agreed that “the people,” its longings and lives should be the focus of progressive music. Rotolo notes that in practice folk music movement “included everything that wasn’t easily classifiable, all of which was freighted, most often implicitly, with left politics. [It was] an amalgam of other genres: bluegrass to country to blues to gospel to traditional.” (p. 128) Rotolo earlier reminds the readers how much international music (for example, the Armenian-American oud player George Mgrdichian and the Israeli singer, Ron Eliran,) was a part of this scene. The international music countered the dominant nativist and chauvinist ideology of that decade, and the “folk” of the folk music were “the workers,” who (unbeknownst to themselves) had created songs deemed inherently oppositional to the dominant culture. The songs’ subjects and underlying assumptions, in fact, rejected the individualism, romanticism, and consumerism of the dominant culture. However, this was much more due to their origins in a pre-industrial society more than any association they may have had with socialism. There were overtly Left songs, which set to traditional (often religious) tunes had lyrics rousing the workers to join unions or memorializing industrial accidents, but they were few in number. Be that as it may, these songs helped sustain a besieged community. Rotolo’s Contribution to Dylan’s Career Suse Rotolo greatly underestimates her contribution to Dylan’s enthronement in the pantheon of American cultural giants. It was neither Dylan’s raspy voice nor his strumming technique that stopped a generation in its tracks. A short list of political anthems that he composed during his time together with Suse Rotolo enraptured a new generation of political activists. His first album, Bob Dylan, included an eclectic and uneven collection of traditional ballads presented by a very young Woody Guthrie wannabe, who had some je ne sais quoi. His second album, A Freewheelin’ Time—which featured “Blowing in the Wind,” “Masters of War,” and “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” – and his third album’s, The Times They Are a-Changin’” – whose soon-to-be classics “The Times They Are a Changin’,” “With God on Our Side,” “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol,” “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” “ When the Ship Comes In,” and “Chains of Freedom” were composed at a moment when American youth were poised to repudiate the domestic cold war and mobilize a massive antiwar movement. This short list of songs gave immediacy and gravity to Dylan’s music; it launched his work into the special space reserved for those few performers/composers of American popular music who create classic American popular music. Suse Rotolo not only introduced Bob Dylan to the Left movement, she also took him to the Museum of Modern Art to see Picasso’s Guernica, encouraged him to listen to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Three Penny Opera, and exposed him to other aspects of the Old Left’s cultural amalgam of folk and high culture. “Pirate Jenny,” from The Three Penny Opera, provided Dylan with the framework for “The Times They Are a–Changin’.” “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” which was based on a front-page article published in the Leftist weekly, The National Guardian, suggests that the murder of Medgar Evers was determined by a culture where the ideology of white supremacy manipulated poor white Southerners into foregoing their own economic interests, might be the single most Marxist song composed in the United States. The refinement of the lyrics of “When the Ship Comes In,” the larger framework of the song, its apocalyptic vision, elevate Dylan’s song to a higher category than, for example, the blithely optimistic ditty of the contemporaneous “If I Had a Hammer” composed by Pete Seeger. Conclusion Suse Rotolo’s memoir represents an important addition to the vast literature on Bob Dylan, who is arguably the largest single influence on American music to emerge from the 1960s. It also documents the transmission of the culture of the Communist Left, to the wider culture—a topic that deserves further attention from the burgeoning field of American Cultural Studies. At its heart, it is story of one young woman’s quest for an elusive autonomy from the complex inheritance of heroic parents and a celebrated partner. Suse Rotolo did something noble when she chose her own integrity over being a satellite of a blazing star. However, she has not yet entirely worked out the complexities of inheriting a rich parental legacy and later attaining a larger degree of acceptance of the satisfactions of participating in the construction of an American legend. Perhaps her next volume should be about her parents, their own families, and their very large, and less ambiguous, impact on her life. http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/9401/

Voldar: Bob Dylan, Hole, and Weezer to Perform at 2010 Bumbershoot Festival Bob Dylan, Weezer, and Hole are set to perform at this year’s Bumbershoot festival. Scheduled to take place Sept. 4-6 at the Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington, the event will also feature Mary J. Blige, The Decemberists and Neko Case, as well as more than 100 other artists. The event’s website also indicates that “one more very special guest,” as yet unnamed, will be announced soon. The annual festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary. As North America’s largest urban arts festival, the event attracts artists representing the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, dance, theater, and the visual arts. It’s anticipated that more than 150,000 people will attend the three-day event. http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/weezer-0603/

Voldar: Боб продолжает не отставать от Тома. Bob Dylan set list - Belgrade Arena, Serbia, June 6, 2010, three more tour debuts Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man live - Skopje, Macedonia 04.06.2010, Metropolis arena set list 1 Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 2 It Ain't Me, Babe 3 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 4 Masters Of War 5 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 6 Beyond Here Lies Nothin' 7 Honest With Me 8 Workingman's Blues #2 9 Cold Irons Bound 10 Forgetful Heart 11 Highway 61 Revisited 12 Not Dark Yet 13 Thunder On The Mountain 14 Ballad Of A Thin Man / 15 Like A Rolling Stone 16 Jolene 17 Blowin' In The Wind Tour debuts of "Beyond Here Lies Nothin' ", "Forgetful Heart", and "Not Dark Yet". Bob Dylan - 03.06.2010 - Live in Sofia - Like A Rolling Stone http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m6d6-Bob-Dylan-set-list--Belgrade-Arena-Serbia-June-6-2010-three-more-tour-debuts

Voldar: Номер не удался... Forget the rumors: Paul McCartney says he has no plans to write with Bob Dylan Paul McCartney has denied the almost endless speculative stories that he and Bob Dylan might work together. "No, that’s a newspaper thing," he told the UK Telegraph in an interview late last week. He just said some very complimentary things about me in some interviews and I love him. I think he’s a great poet and writer so I’ve always admired him. I don’t rule it out and I admire him. But we’re not the kind of people who would ring each other up," On May 26, we reported exclusively that McCartney's press spokesman had dismissed the reports of the two collaborating as speculation. Internet reports later expanded the rumors to say that Ringo Starr would join with McCartney and Dylan. Also in the interview, Stella McCartney said the Meat Free Monday campaign is not out to make people vegetarians. "It’s an environmental conversation, not a vegetarian one. It’s ok to just give up meat for one day. It doesn’t make you a vegetarian if you hate vegetarians. It doesn’t make you a cranky, hemp wearing pot smoker. It’s alright, it’s allowed. It doesn’t make you a kind of the person you don’t want to be. It just means you are doing something positive," she said. http://www.examiner.com/x-2082-Beatles-Examiner~y2009m6d28-Forget-the-rumors-Paul-McCartney-says-he-has-no-plans-to-write-with-Bob-Dylan

Voldar: Для прикола,на болгарском. Bob Dylan, София, 4 юни 2010 г., НДК „Като е Боб... поне да е Марли!” Посрещащият тийни вик измежду многото, сбрали се на ударна automatic-for-the-people електронна забивка последно поколение пред НДК. После лабиринтът на двореца ме завърта и хвърля в монотонно загрявъчно боботене от колоните в зала 1, което декламира история на непознат диалект за някого, който се върнал от Тексас, и нещо си... „Никога не си била в НДК?”, пита зеещият “fuuun” зад фотоапарата американец от задната седалка. Трябва да се забавляваш – помисли си за онези, които са предпочели да си останат вкъщи и ще го пропуснат (FUNN-а). Следва кратко представяне от сцената, което завършва abrupto със стряскащото име „Дилън”, и историята започва да се твори. Някакъв герой от... гражданска война в паралелна вселена, с широкопола шапка, въоръжен с хармоника, под оранжавеещи прожектори, започва да пророкува бъдещето в древните си истории. Имало едно време класическа структура: накъсваш едно бързо (за всичко, което съм пропуснала - от улицата - в университета), после едно бавно („тя се люби точно като жена”). И това било прекрасно и дори велико. За него мъртвите песни пеят. Magic, bible, tarot, Hitler, Jesus, Kennedy, Buddha, mantra, Gita, yoga, kings, Elvis, Beatles, Zimmerman… „Колкото и да се дере, това е все една и съща песен”, отбелязва госпожата до мен. So, how does it feel? Истинско. Оголен до зъби блус, чийто ритъм се впива в стомаха, и непосилна за поп музиката сега лекота, която не може да се маскира. Но ако това е единственият жив дух – болезнено, защото не принадлежи на времето. Боби, Боби, Боби, викат на бис поета от балконите. И неразбиращи възмутени погледи на поколението, което е освидетелствало 60-те. Макар и в друга вселена. http://www.infoweek.bg/infoweekend/weekend.php?show_sub_category=8&id=1625

Goldenday: Voldar пишет: Боби, Боби, Боби, викат на бис поета от балконите. И неразбиращи възмутени погледи на поколението, което е освидетелствало 60-те. Макар и в друга вселена.

Voldar: А это как? „Никога не си била в НДК?”, пита зеещият “fuuun” зад фотоапарата американец от задната седалка

Voldar: Возвращение Боба к концертной деятельности и история 'Never Ending Tour' описывается в статье: Dylan's back pages - Dylan disrupts CSNY 1970, and the start of the 'Never Ending Tour' 1988. In June, 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young played six nights at Bill Graham's Fillmore East, from the 2nd to the 7th. These concerts were recorded for part of the double live album, 4-Way Street. On the final night, according to Clinton Heylin, Bob Dylan was in attendance. Here's Graham Nash's recollection of the evening, courtesy Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock And Out, by Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield (De Capo Press, pp 320-21): We all knew the Big D was out there, so we said, listen, let's not get carried away. Let's just play. Let's just do the one song that each of us had been playing. But because Dylan was there in the audience, Stephen did four songs. I don't know how David and Neil felt but I was outraged. We had a game plan and we'll be in Fat City, right? But Stephen wouldn't follow the plan. So I was arguing like **** with him. This was during the intermission. Bill was standing there. Me and Stephen were ******* screaming at each other. Stephen had a Budweiser can in his hand and he was slowly crushing it to a flat thing. It was all foaming and dripping over and Bill was looking at us and he was going "Oh God". And we went back out and did the best electric set we had ever done. I think that was the Tuesday night. With us it was always that way, Stephen has always been crazy. I think if Stephen was not Stephen Stills, he would have been committed long ago. Here's Nash telling the story another way: I remember one night at the Fillmore East in New York. We were playing, and Dylan had come to see us. Our live shows usually would break down to an acoustic first half, followed by an intermission, followed by an electric set for the rest of the night. Within that structure, we would all have acoustic solos. I would do two songs, David would do two songs, Stephen would do two songs, and Neil would do two songs. But on this particular night, because Dylan was there, Stephen goes out and does five songs. It pissed everyone off righteously. We all wanted to impress Dylan, and yet Stephen takes it on himself to go overboard. Well, we were all so infuriated by the time intermission came that I started talking to Stephen and telling him exactly what I think about him. And while I'm doing it, he's holding a can of Budweiser in his hand, and he's slowly gripping it, crushing it. Stephen is an immensely strong man, and with this maniacal energy of his he crushed the can flat, and now beer is frothing all over the carpet, and all over his pants. And right after that, we went out and played the greatest electrical set we'd ever played. So go figure. Nash seems to have gotten some of his facts wrong, as you can see by the information below. Throughout the six-night run, Stills might have played one extra song on any given night, and this was not one of them. Maybe Dylan showed up on a different night, or Stills' set was just extended. Here's the set list for (Sunday), June 7 : Acoustic set: 1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 2. Blackbird 3. On The Way Home 4. Teach Your Children 5. Tell Me Why 6. Triad (Crosby) 7. Guinnevere (Crosby) 8. Another Sleep Song (Nash) 9. Man In The Mirror (Nash) 10. Don't Let It Bring You Down (Nash) 11. The Loner>Cinnamon Girl>Down By The River (Young) 12. Black Queen (Stills) 13. 49 Bye-Byes>America's Children (including "For What It's Worth") (Stills) 14. Love The One You're With (Stills) --- Electric set: 15. Pre-Road Downs 16. Long Time Gone 17. Helplessly Hoping 18. Southern Man 19. As I Come Of Age 20. Ohio 21. Carry On --- Encore: 22. Woodstock 23. Find The Cost Of Freedom Here's the opening acoustic set from the previous evening: 1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 2. Blackbird 3. On The Way Home 4. Teach Your Children 5. Tell Me Why 6. Triad (Crosby) 7. Guinnevere (Crosby) 8. Simple Man (Nash) 9. King Midas In Reverse (Nash) 10. The Loner>Cinnamon Girl>Down By The River (Young) 11. Black Queen (Stills) 12. 4 + 20 (Stills) 13. 49 Bye-Byes>America's Children (Stills) 14. Love The One You're With (Stills) In any event, after the show, Dylan is said to have attended the post-concert party for CSNY and The Who, who were performing Tommy twice at the Metropolitan Opera House the same evening. Dylan has been associated with the various members of CSNY throughout the years in one way of another, including The Byrds (with Crosby) covering Dylan songs in the mid-1960s - plus Dylan appearing with a reunited Byrds at a Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990, Stills participating at the 1976 "Night Of The Hurricane 2" at the Houston Astrodome, and Nash leaving the Hollies when they decided to record a Dylan tribute album, while Young seems to have formed the closest bond with Dylan, appearing on stage with him on numerous occasions. Wolfgang's Vault is streaming Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Fillmore East concerts from June 4, 5, and 6, but unfortunately not the 7th. I've included part of Stills' solo set from June 6 here. Also on this day in 1988, the "Never Ending Tour" started at the Concord Pavilion in California, with none other than Neil Young playing guitar for part of the set. There have been more than 2,200 Dylan concerts since. Dylan does not like the term "Never Ending Tour". The phrase came from a December, 1989, interview with Adrian Deevoy for Q Magazine (courtesy Michael Gray's Bob Dylan Encyclopedia): Deevoy: 'Tell me about this live thing. You've gone straight into this tour again — one tour virtually straight into the next one.' Dylan: 'Oh, it's all the same tour.' Deevoy: 'It's the Never Ending Tour?' Dylan: (unenthusiastically) 'Yeah, yeah'. In the liner notes for 1993's World Gone Wrong, Dylan wrote "dont (sic) be bewildered by the Never Ending Tour chatter. There was a Never Ending Tour but it ended in '91. ." You can read the whole quote here, at Bob Dylan's official site, just above the You Tube videos. Here's the information for the show: Concord Pavilion, Concord, California, 7 June 1988 1. Subterranean Homesick Blues 2. Absolutely Sweet Marie 3. Masters Of War 4. You're A Big Girl Now 5. Gotta Serve Somebody 6. In The Garden 7. Man Of Constant Sorrow (trad. arr. by Bob Dylan) 8. Lakes Of Pontchartrain (trad.) 9. Boots Of Spanish Leather 10. Driftin' Too Far From Shore 11. Gates Of Eden 12. Like A Rolling Stone // 13. Maggie's Farm First concert of The Never-Ending Tour. First concert of the Interstate 88 Tour, part 1: Summer Tour of North America. First concert with the first Never-Ending Tour Band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), G. E. Smith (guitar), Kenny Aaronson (bass), Christopher Parker (drums). 7-9 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), G.E. Smith (guitar). 1 G.E. Smith (backup vocal) 1-6 and 10-13 Neil Young (guitar). Notes: 1, 2, 8, 10 live debuts. 7 first live performance since 1961. 11 first electric version ever. BobTalk: Alright, thank you! We got Neil Young here playing tonight! (after You're A Big Girl Now) Thank you! That's Neil Young on the guitar. Give him a hand! (after Like A Rolling Stone) Oh, thank you people for being so nice! (before Maggie's Farm) http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m6d6-Dylans-back-pages--Dylan-disrupts-CSNY-1970-and-the-start-of-the-Never-Ending-Tour-1988

Voldar: Bob Dylan set list - Zagreb, Croatia, June 7, 2010 live as it happens "Not Dark Yet", Belgrade Arena, Serbia, June 6 Live set list as it's happening, courtesy Expecting Rain Discussions, from "High Water". Note: * No Hat!!* 1. Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat 2. It Ain't Me Babe - Bob on guitar 3. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Bob on guitar 4. Beyond Here Lies Nothing - Bob on guitar (Donnie on trumpet) 5. Just Like a Woman - Bob on keyboard 6. Honest with Me - Harp Center Stage 7. Desolation Row 8. High water - Bob centre stage harp 9. Mr. Tambourine Man - keyboard & guitar 10.I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met) 11. Highway 61 Revisited 12. Love Sick - on harp - center stage 13. Thunder on the Mountain 14. Ballad of a Thin Man - harp - center stage Encore 15. Like a Rolling Stone 16. Jolene 17. All Along The Watchtower Dylan and band members reported to be in good moods . . . "Forgetful Heart", Serbia, June 6 http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m6d7-Bob-Dylan-set-list--Zagreb-Croatia-June-7-2010-live-as-it-happens

Voldar: Боб Дилан 9 июня в Братиславе. перевод со словацкого: БРАТИСЛАВА десятый (AP) - В Словакии, говорит, впервые в своей почти 50-летнюю карьеру легендарный американский музыкант Боб Дилан. Сцена его дебютное выступление было в среду вечером Incheba Expo Арена ". Šesťdesiatdeväťročný музыкант проживает в столице Словакии во вторник утром, в дополнение к числу авторов автомобиль пользовался услугами двух охранников ozborejených. Его выступления посетили несколько словацких лидеров выборах политических партий, актеры, музыканты, промоутеры, музыкальные фестивали и ведущих. Его концерт, на правом берегу Дуная Dylan начал восемь минут после 8:00 вечера. Родной штат Миннесота появился на сцене без слов, который, в свою фанатов не было неожиданностью. В первую же ночь он пел песни и играл на клавишных, но позже показали игру на губных гармошках. Хотя Dylan не тип исполнителя, который играет концерты и все их величайших хитов, по крайней мере некоторые из них играли в среду вечером и петь. В качестве примера было в самом начале песни Stuck Inside Of мобильный телефон с Снова Мемфис-блюз или Just Like женщина. Музыкант, одетый в костюм с белой шляпой на голове в Братиславе была крайне простой декорации, которые изменились в ходе выполнения практике только один раз. Дилан никогда не nepotrpel о последствиях и не общаться с аудиторией на концерте в любом случае заниматься. Это было также Incheba что вы можете наслаждаться одним из самых новых песни Dylanových - красивая баллада Забыв Сердце предпоследний альбом вместе по жизни (2009). Даже до настоящего аудитории, но могут быть переведены в шестидесятые лет через песню Highway 61 Revisited. Незадолго до окончания "основной" части концерта зрители с волнением, не последний, и, несмотря на строгий план сидения было начато непосредственно под сценой. Они будут объединены десятки других людей, которые следили за заключение концерта рядом. Дилан nevyviedlo степени и на текущей аплодисменты и краткое отступление от стадии до его поклонников ссылаться на них играть еще три песни. После того как первый был огромный отклик. Они были одной из самых известных песен в истории музыки - песню Like A Rolling Stone. После того как ее песня после точкой Джолена было другого известного произведения - хит All Along "Сторожевая башня", который стал знаменитым и Jimi Hendrix. Музыкант с еврейскими корнями ограничить общение с поклонниками только кратким "Спасибо, друзья" и простой группы predstavovačku. Здесь, в среду состоял из пяти музыкантов в элегантных серых костюмах, которые Дилан появился в самом конце. Ветеран концерт, который журнал Rolling Stone назвал группу The Beatles во втором самых важных музыкальных художника в истории neodzneli песни Blowin 'на ветру, Достучаться до небес, или г-ну Тамбурин, но даже без них сейчас практически народной песни избежать подавляющего большинства людей домой с чувством выживания исключительный вечер. http://www.webnoviny.sk/kultura/bob-dylan-zdvihol-ludi-v-inchebe-zo-st/157238-clanok.html Bob Dylan set list - Bratislava, Slovak Republic, June 9, 2010, plus more Belgrade footage Bob Dylan - Workingman's Blues ( Beograd 06-06-2010 ) Bratislava, Slovak Republic: Incheba Expo Arena June 9, 2010 1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on keyboard) 2. It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob on guitar) 3. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on guitar) 4. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (Bob on keyboard and harp) 5. Just Like A Woman (Bob on harp) 6. Absolutely Sweet Marie (Bob on Keyboard and harp, Donnie on violin) 7. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on banjo) 8. Shelter From The Storm (Bob on keyboard) 9. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on guitar) 10. Man In The Long Black Coat (Bob on guitar) 11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard) 12. Forgetful Heart (Bob center stage on harp, Donnie on violin) 13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard) 14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp) (encore) 15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard) 16. Jolene (Bob on keyboard) 17. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard) Tour debuts for "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Man In The Long Black Coat". This was the first performance of "Absolutely Sweet Marie" since May 3, 2007.

Voldar: Американский певец и автор песен Боб Дилан, через пять лет, возвращается в Прагу. В рамках своего мирового турне, выступит в пятницу O2 Arena американский певец Bob Dylan. Агентство сообщило о Mediafax Питер Смит из организации агентства Live Nation. Музыкант Боб Дилан сыграл последние два года назад в Остраве, и теперь, после 5 лет, возвращается в Прагу. http://tn.nova.cz/zpravy/hudba/americky-pisnickar-bob-dylan-se-po-peti-letech-vraci-do-prahy.html

Voldar: Именитый американский фотограф Graham Nash устраивает выстывку своих работ 'Unforgettable' rock photos в музее фотографического искусства. Среди его работ есть замечательный тройной портрет Боба. Bob Dylan signing a poster at the Olympia Concert Hall, Paris, France, 1966.

Voldar: 45 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Finds Band in Somers Point Something was happening here and Bob Dylan knew what it was By Jeff Schwachter In the 40 years since Bob Dylan "plugged in" for his notorious electric tour, it's become even more evident how that string of concerts affected the world of popular music. As author Ron Bowman notes in the fantastic liner notes to the recently released boxed set, The Band: A Musical History (Capitol), Dylan's 1965-66 tour with the Hawks (later re-christened the Band) set the standard for future rock performances. "Dylan and his fans had come out of the world of folk music where audiences remained seated, respectful, and paid rapt attention to what was being delivered from the stage," writes Bowman. "Dylan performed with those expectations in mind ... [and with] the Hawks effectively signaled the transformation of rock and roll to rock, the shift from the performer as pop idol to the performer as artist." After debuting his live electric sound to a crowd of folkies (some booing) at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and releasing the groundbreaking, six-minute single, "Like A Rolling Stone," Dylan decided to take his new sound on the road. He also turned to one of the summer of '65's most popular Jersey Shore bar bands to back him. Levon and the Hawks were playing a summer-long engagement at Tony Mart's on Bay Avenue in Somers Point, an immensely popular nightspot -- especially among Philadelphia-area college students -- for its seven bars, go-go girls, and constant supply of hip bands. The five-piece Hawks were a hard-playing, rugged group of virtuosos whose original sound was an intense combination of R&B, rockabilly, soul, country, folk and rock music. Even a few years before they would release their highly influential Music From Big Pink album (as the Band), the group stood out from their contemporaries. "It was incredible because so much of what was going on at Tony Mart's at that time was more like schtick and pop music," says Carmen Marotta, a Somers Point councilman whose father, Anthony Marotta, owned the club, which closed in 1982. "But this was a band that was incredible for their virtuosity and their intensity and their jamming." Led by Arkansas native Levon Helm (drums, vocals) and Canadians Richard Manuel (piano, vocals), Rick Danko (bass, vocals) Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals) and Garth Hudson (organ, saxophone), Levon and the Hawks played six nights a week at Tony Mart's. In return, they received a regular paycheck ($1,300 a week), plus room and board for the entire summer. As Marotta remembers, although the band was still wearing suits and patent-leather shoes, they were so into their music that some nights they had to be pulled from the stage. "One night, my father had to send guys to the stage three times to shake the group off because it was two o'clock and it was illegal to play music after [that time]," says Marotta. Although he was only nine in 1965, Marotta remembers the Hawks' amazingly tight four- and five-piece vocal harmonies, which even back then, were one of their trademarks. People from all over, Marotta recalls, were coming to the Mart that summer to see "these white guys singing soul and blues and funk." A front-page story published in the August 24, 1965 edition of The New York Times noted that Tony Mart's was "the wildest spot on the New Jersey shore and perhaps the entire eastern Seaboard." A few weeks before the article came out, which included a photograph taken inside Tony Mart's showing the back view of a band playing, which could very well be the Hawks, Bob Dylan got word of this hot playing act. It's been rumored that Dylan sent down some folks from New York to catch the Hawks play at the Mart. According to Marotta, some believe Dylan came down to check them out himself. "My sister, Tina, swears that there was a skinny guy in a trench coat that came down, but it's never been authenticated," he says. In his 1993 autobiography, This Wheel's on Fire, Helm remembers that Dylan phoned Tony Mart's in August 1965. After introducing himself to Helm he asked him: "Howja like to play the Hollywood Bowl?" Marotta says Helm probably took the call in a phone booth located towards the rear of the Mart. "That's where you would take those kinds of calls," says Marotta. "It was the only place you could hear." Soon after the phone call, it was Robertson who went to New York to meet Dylan, agreeing shortly thereafter to play guitar with Dylan on a few scheduled dates. Helm eventually joined the band, too, playing a late August show in Forest Hills, NY and then the Hollywood Bowl. Although the rest of the Hawks wouldn't join Dylan on the road until October 1965, the Hawks ended their residency at Tony Mart's soon after Robbie and Levon went to play with Dylan. Marotta remembers that Tony Mart's sent them off with a big party. "They were beloved," says Marotta. "My father got them a cake on their last Sunday night. It was announced that they were leaving. Nobody cared about Dylan. The focus was that we were losing the Hawks." Tony Mart's may have lost a great bar band, but Bob Dylan gained one of the greatest ensembles that ever backed him. He would continue to work with them intermittently until 1976 when the Band decided to call it quits. In a recent interview, featured in the new Martin Scorsese picture No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Dylan acknowledges the significance that the band he "discovered" in Somers Point had on his historic 1966 tour: "The guys that were with me on that tour, which later became the Band, we were all in it together, putting our heads in the lion's mouth," says Dylan. "And I have to admire them for sticking it out with me. Just for doing it, in my book, they were, you know, gallant knights for even standing behind me." Dylan's alluding to the constant booing he and the Hawks had to endure each night during that tour as most of the audiences wrongly expected to hear only acoustic Dylan. In fact, the adverse reactions from some of the audience members were enough to cause Helm to drop out of the tour altogether. Marotta says that years later Helm once told him that the band was very unhappy after first leaving the Mart to join Dylan. "They were wildly popular and they were worshiped at Tony Mart's," he says. "Then they went and played that first gig and got booed and they were like, 'What the hell are we doing here?'" Four decades later, it's obvious. They were changing rock music forever. http://www.atlanticcityweekly.com/arts-and-entertainment/features/somers_point_65-50669357.html

Voldar: Bob Dylan set list - Prague, Czech Republic, June 11, 2010, plus Zagreb footage Here's tonight's set list from Bob Dylan's concert at the O2 Arena, in Prague. June 11, 2010 1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Bob on keyboard then guitar) 2. Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob center stage on guitar) 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob center stage on guitar) 4. Just Like A Woman (Bob on keyboard then center stage on harp) 5. Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (Bob center stage on guitar, Donnie on trumpet) 6. Shelter From The Storm (Bob on keyboard) 7. Honest With Me (Bob on keyboard) 8. Mr. Tambourine Man (Bob on keyboard then center stage on guitar) 9. Cold Irons Bound (Bob center stage on harp) 10. Workingman's Blues #2 (Bob on keyboard then center stage on harp) 11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard) 12. I Feel A Change Comin' On (Bob on keyboard) 13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard) 14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp) (encore) 15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard) 16. Jolene (Bob on keyboard) 17. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on keyboard) Bob Dylan Zagreb 07.06.2010 - Just Like A Woman Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Bob Dylan Zagreb 07.06.2010. - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

Voldar: Bob Dylan from Linz, Austria June 12, 2010 (Courtesy Bob Links) 1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on keyboard) 2. The Man In Me (Bob center stage on harp) 3. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on guitar) 4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on guitar) 5. The Levee's Gonna Break (Bob on keyboard) 6. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob on keyboard) 7. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Bob center stage on harp) 8. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Bob center stage) 9. Honest With Me (Bob on keyboard) 10. What Good Am I? (Bob on keyboard) 11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard) 12. Not Dark Yet (Bob center stage on harp) 13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard) 14. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage on harp) (encore) 15. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard) 16. Jolene (Bob on keyboard) 17. Forever Young (Bob on keyboard then center stage on harp)

Voldar: Боб Дилан выступит на 70-той годовщине культового мотофестиваля в американском городе Sturgis. Dylan Scheduled To Rock Sturgis Motorcycle Rally The mystery around Bob Dylan’s Triumph motorcycle accident in 1966 fell nothing short of legendary. This summer, Dylan will bring motorcycles and music together again at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, August 2-15. Dozens of bikers are gearing up to have the rocker grace the Black Hills. Other featured musical guests include Buckcherry, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, The Doobie Brothers, Kid Rock, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, and many more. Besides live concerts at the Buffalo Chip, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is filled with races, bike shows, freestyle stunters, and plenty of organized rides. Attendees will have the chance to demo a variety of bikes including an exclusive look at new models from Harley-Davidson and Victory http://www.allaboutbikes.com/everyday/news/2409-dylan-schedule-to-rock-sturgis-motorcycle-rally

Voldar: После европейского тура,Боб не собирается расслабляться и выступит 4 июля на фестивале в Ирландии,а затем поедет с гастролями домой. Bob Dylan Gears Up For Late-Summer Tour Bob Dylan will return from his current European stint to headline a tour around the western United States in August and September. After playing Ireland on July 4th, Dylan and his band will launch their latest American tour in Austin, Texas on August 4th and will conclude as the headliner at Seattle’s annual Bumbershoot Festival on September 4th. Check out them confirmed tour dates below. More will be released soon. The Backyard – Austin, TX 8/4 Zoo Amphitheatre – Oklahoma, OK 8/6 Starlight Theatre – Kansas City, MO 8/7 Haymarket Park – Lincoln, NE 8/8 Dehler Park – Biillings, MT 8/11 Mike Lansing Field – Casper, WY 8/12 Snow King Amphitheatre – Jackson Hole, WY 8/14 Botanical Garden – Boise, ID Idaho 8/15 Deer Valley Amphitheater – Park City, UT 8/17 Caesars Palace – Las Vegas, NV 8/18 Citizens Bank Arena – Ontario, CA 8/19 Monterey Fairgrounds – Monterey, CA 8/21 Harvey’s Amphitheatre – Stateline, NV 8/22 Bumbershoot Festival – Seattle, WA 9/4 http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/06/bob-dylan-gears-up-for-late-summer-tour/

Voldar: The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan By Jann S. Wenner RS47: November 29, 1969 They say Bob Dylan is the most secretive and elusive person in the entire rock and roll substructure, but after doing this interview, I think it would be closer to the point to say that Dylan, like John Wesley Harding, was “never known to make a foolish move.” The preparations for the interview illustrates this well. About 18 months ago, I first started writing Bob letters asking for an interview, suggesting the conditions and questions and reasons for it. Then, a little over a year ago, the night before I left New York, a message came from the hotel operator that a “Mr. Dillon” had called. Two months later, I met Bob for the first time at another hotel in New York: He casually strolled in wearing a sheepskin outfit, leather boots, very well put together but not too tall, y’understand. It was 10 A.M. in the morning, and I rolled out of bed stark naked—sleep that way, y’understand — and we talked for half an hour about doing an interview, what it was for, why it was necessary. Bob was feeling out the situation, making sure it would be cool. That meeting was in the late fall of 1968. It took eight months—until the end of June this year—to finally get the interview. The meantime was covered with a lot of phone calls, near misses in New York City, Bob’s trips to California, which didn’t take place and a lot of waiting and waiting for that right time when we were both ready for the show. The interview took place on a Thursday afternoon in New York City at my hotel, right around the corner from the funeral home where Judy Garland was being inspected by ten thousand people, who formed lines around several city blocks. We were removed from all that activity, but somehow it seemed appropriate enough that Judy Garland’s funeral coincided with the interview. Bob was very cautious in everything he said, and took a long time between questions to phrase exactly what he wanted to say, nothing more and sometimes a little less. When I wasn’t really satisfied with his answers, I asked the questions another way, later. But Bob was hip. Rather than edit the interview into tight chunks and long answers, I asked Sheryl to transcribe the tapes with all the pauses, asides and laughs left in. So, much of the time, it’s not what is said, but how it is said, and I think you will dig it more just as it went down. To bring us up to date after all that, August through September was spent trying to get Baron together with Bob to get some new photographs of him, in a natural, non-performance situation. But it proved fruitless. Perhaps if we had had another six months to work on getting the photographs, but Bob was simply not to be rushed or pushed into something he really didn’t feel like doing at the time. (“I’ll have Baron meet you in New York tomorrow.” “Well, tomorrow I might be in Tucson, Arizona,” “Baron will fly to Tucson,” etc.) The photographs we have used are from rehearsals for the Johnny Cash show and from the Isle of Wight, ones you probably have not seen yet, and some photos of Bob from a long time ago. Bob promised that we would get together soon to take some photos, and if we do, you’ll see them as soon as we get them. But don’t hold your breath. Meantime, here’s the interview. WENNER: When do you think you’re gonna go on the road? DYLAN: November... possibly December. WENNER: What kind of dates do you think you’ll play – concerts? Big stadiums or small concert halls? DYLAN: I’ll play medium-sized halls. WENNER: What thoughts do you have on the kind of back-up you’re going to use? DYLAN: Well, we’ll keep it real simple, you know... drums... bass... second guitar... organ... piano. Possibly some horns. Maybe some background voices. WENNER: Girls? Like the Raylettes? DYLAN: We could use some girls. WENNER: Do you have any particular musicians in mind at this time? DYLAN: To go out on the road? Well, I always have some in mind. I’d like to know a little bit more about what I’m gonna do. You see, when I discover what I’m gonna do, then I can figure out what kind of sound I want. I’d probably use... I’d want the best band around, you know? WENNER: Are you going to use studio musicians or use some already existing band? DYLAN: I don’t know... you see, it involves putting other people on the bill, full-time. I’d only probably use the Band again... if I went around. WENNER: And they’d do the first half of the show? DYLAN: ...Sure... sure... WENNER: Are you thinking of bringing any other artists with you? DYLAN: Well, every so often we do think about that. (laughter) We certainly do. I was thinking about maybe introducing Marvin Rainwater or Slim Whitman to “my audience.” WENNER: Have you been in touch with either of them DYLAN: No... no. WENNER: What did you think when you saw yourself on the Cash show? DYLAN: (Laughs) Oh, I’d never see that... I can’t stand to see myself on television. No. WENNER: Did you dig doing it? DYLAN: I dig doing it, yeah. Well, you know, television isn’t like anything else... it’s also like the movie business, you know, where they call you and then you just sit around. So by the time you finally do something, you have to do it three or four times, and usually all the spirit’s gone. WENNER: You didn’t watch it on TV? DYLAN: (Laughs) I did watch it on TV... just because I wanted to see Johnny. I didn’t realize they slowed Doug Kershaw down, too. They slowed his song down to... his song was like this... (taps out steady beat)... and they slowed him down to... (taps slow rhythm)... you know? WENNER: Just by slowing down the tape? DYLAN: They just slowed him down. I don’t know how. I don’t know what happened. I think the band slowed him down or something, but boy he was slowed down. During rehearsals and just sitting around, he played these songs... the way we was going at it, maybe 3/4 time, and they slowed him down to about 2/3 time, you know? WENNER: Did you have any difficulty working with the TV people doing something like that? DYLAN: O no, no, they’re wonderful people... they really are. It was by far the most enjoyable television program I’ve ever done. I don’t do television just because you get yourself in such a mess... so I don’t do it. WENNER: You told me once that you were going to do a TV special? DYLAN: That’s what I’m talking about. WENNER: In Hollywood? DYLAN: No, I’m talking about CBS. WENNER: In New York? DYLAN: Well, we don’t know that yet. They don’t have in mind exactly what they would like. They kind of leave it wide open, so we’re trying to close the gap now. WENNER: What do you have in mind for it? DYLAN: Oh, I just have some free-from type thing in mind. A lot of music. WENNER: Presenting other artists? DYLAN: Sure... I don’t mind. I don’t know who, but... WENNER: Why haven’t you worked in so long? DYLAN: Well, uh... I do work. WENNER: I mean on the road. DYLAN: On the road... I don’t know, working on the road... Well, Jann, I’ll tell ya — I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. A lot of things just to keep going, you know? And I don’t want to live that way anymore. And uh... I’m just waiting for a better time – you know what I mean? WENNER: What would you do that would make the tour that you’re thinking about doing different from the ones you did do? DYLAN: Well, I’d like to slow down the pace a little. The one I did do... the next show’s gonna be a lot different from the last show. The last show, during the first half, of which there was about an hour, I only did maybe six songs. My songs were long, long songs. But that’s why I had to start dealing with a lot of different methods of keeping myself awake, alert... because I had to remember all the words to those songs. Now I’ve got a whole bag of new songs. I’ve written ‘em for the road, you know. So I’ll be doing all these songs on the road. They’re gonna sound a lot better than they do on record. My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. WENNER: Why? DYLAN: Well, I don’t know why. They just do. WENNER: On “Nashville Skyline”–who does the arrangements? The studio musicians, or... DYLAN: Boy, I wish you could’ve come along the last time we made an album. You’d probably enjoyed it... ‘cause you see right there, you know how it’s done. We just take a song; I play it and everyone else just sort of fills in behind it. No sooner you got that done, and at the same time you’re doing that, there’s someone in the control booth who’s turning all those dials to where the proper sound is coming in... and then it’s done. Just like that. WENNER: Just out of rehearsing it? It’ll be a take? DYLAN: Well, maybe we’ll take about two times. WENNER: Were there any songs on “Nashville Skyline” that took longer to take? DYLAN: I don’t know... I don’t think so. There’s a movie out now, called “Midnight Cowboy.” You know the song on the album, “Lay, Lady, Lay”? Well, I wrote that song for that movie. These producers, they wanted some music for their movie. This was last summer. And this fellow there asked me, you know, if I could do some music for their movie. So I came up with that song. By the time I came up with it, though it was too late. (Laughs) It’s the same old story all the time. It’s just too late... so I kept the song and recorded it. WENNER: There’s something going on with “Easy Rider” – you wrote the lyrics for a song that Roger McGuinn wrote the music for, or something? Were you involved in that at all? DYLAN: They used some of my music in it. They used a song of the Band’s, too. They also used Steppenwolf music. I don’t know anything more about it than that. WENNER: Do you know which song of yours they used? DYLAN: “It’s Alright, Ma”–but they had Roger McGuinn singing it. WENNER: Have you been approached to write music for any other movies? DYLAN: Uh-hum. WENNER: Considering any of them? DYLAN: Unh-unh. WENNER: Why? Scripts? DYLAN: Ummmm... I don’t know. I just can’t seem to keep my mind on it. I can’t keep my mind on the movie. I had a script a while ago, that was called “Zachariah and the Seven Cowboys.” (laughs) That was some script. Every line in it was taken out of the Bible. And just thrown together. Then there was another one, called “The Impossible Toy.” Have you seen that? (laughs) Yeah. Let’s see, what else? Ummm... no, I’m not planning on doing any music for movies. WENNER: When are you going to do another record? DYLAN: You mean when am I going to put out an album? WENNER: Have you done another record? DYLAN: No. Not exactly. I was going to try and have another one out by the fall. WENNER: Is it done in Nashville again? DYLAN: Well, we... I think so... I mean it’s... seems to be as good a place as any. WENNER: What first got you involved with or attracted you to the musicians at the Columbia studios. DYLAN: Nashville? Well we always used them since “Blonde on Blonde.” Well, we didn’t use Pete on “Blonde on Blonde.” WENNER: What was Joe South like to work with? DYLAN: Joe South? Well he was quiet. He didn’t say too much. I always did like him though. WENNER: Do you like his record? DYLAN: I love his records. WENNER: That album, “Introspect”? DYLAN: Um-hmm, I always enjoyed his guitar-playing. Ever since I heard him. WENNER: Does he have any solos on “Blonde on Blonde”? DYLAN: Um-hmm. Yes he does. He has a... he’s playing a high guitar lick on... well, if you named me the songs, I could tell you which one it was, but it’s catchin’ my mind at the moment. He was playing... he played a big, I believe it was a Gretsch, guitar–one of those Chet Atkins models. That’s the guitar he played it on. WENNER: “Absolutely Sweet Marie”? DYLAN: Yeah, it could’ve been that one. Or “Just Like a Woman”... one of those. Boy he just... he played so pretty. WENNER: On “Nashville Skyline,” do you have any song on that that you particularly dig? Above the others. DYLAN: Uh... “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You.” I like “Tell Me That It Isn’t True,” although it came out completely different than I’d written it. It came out real slow and mellow. I had it written as sort of a jerky, kind of polka-type thing. I wrote it in F. That’s what gives it kind of a new sound. They’re all in F... not all of them, but quite a few. There’s not many on that album that aren’t in F. So you see I had those chords...which gives it a certain sound. I try to be a little different on every album. WENNER: I’m sure you read the reviews of “Nashville Skyline.” Everybody remarks on the change of your singing style... DYLAN: Well Jann, I’ll tell you something. There’s not too much of a change in my singing style, but I’ll tell you something which is true... I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself. That’s true. I tell you, you stop smoking those cigarettes (laughter)... and you’ll be able to sing like Caruso. WENNER: How many songs did you go into “Nashville Skyline” with? DYLAN: I went in with uhh... the first time I went into the studio I had, I think, four songs. I pulled that instrumental one out... I needed some songs with an instrumental... then Johnny came in and did a song with me. Then I wrote one in the motel... then pretty soon the whole album started fill in’ in together, and we had an album. I mean, we didn’t go down with that in mind. That’s why I wish you were there... you could’ve really seen it happen. It just manipulated out of nothing. WENNER: How many songs did you do with Johnny? DYLAN: Well, we did quite a few. We just sat down and started doing some songs... but you know how those things are. You get into a room with someone, you start playing and singing, and you sort of forget after a while what you’re there for. (laughs) WENNER: You must have a lotta songs with him on tape... are you thinking of putting out a collection of them? DYLAN: Well I’m not, no. But you usually have to leave those things in the hands of the producers. WENNER: Is there one afoot? DYLAN: A tape? WENNER: No, an album. DYLAN: No... not that I know of. If there was an album, I believe that we would both have to go back into the studio and record some more songs. WENNER: There’s not enough there already... or it’s just not good enough? DYLAN: Well, it’s uhh... what it comes down to is a choice of material. If they wanted an album–a joint album–they could probably get a lot more material with a broader range on it. If we went there with actually certain songs in mind to do... see, that didn’t happen last time. WENNER: How did you make the change... or why did you make the change, of producers, from Tom Wilson to Bob Johnston? DYLAN: Well, I can’t remember, Jann. I can’t remember... all I know is that I was out recording one day, and Tom had always been there – I had no reason to think he wasn’t going to be there – and I looked up one day and Bob was there. (laughs) WENNER: There’s been some articles on Wilson and he says that he’s the one that gave you the rock and roll sound... and started you doing rock and roll. Is that true? DYLAN: Did he say that? Well, if he said it... (laughs) more power to him. (laughs) He did to a certain extent. That is true. He did. He had a sound in mind. WENNER: Have you ever thought of doing an album... a very arranged, very orchestrated album, you know, with chicks and...? DYLAN: Gee, I’ve thought of it... I think about it once in a while. Yeah. WENNER: You think you might do one? DYLAN: I do whatever comes naturally. I’d like to do an album like that. You mean using my own material and stuff WENNER: Yeah, using your own material but with vocal background and... DYLAN: I’d like to do it. Who wouldn’t? WENNER: When did you make the change from John Hammond... or what caused the change from John Hammond? DYLAN: John Hammond. He signed me in 1960. He signed me to Columbia Records. I think he produced my first album. I think he produced my second one, too. WENNER: And Tom Wilson was also working at Columbia at the time? DYLAN: He was... you know, I don’t recall how that happened... or why that switch took place. I remember at one time I was about to record for Don Law. You know Don Law? I was about to record for Don Law, but I never did. I met Don Law in New York, in 1962... and again recently, last year when I did the “John Wesley Harding” album I met him down in the studio. He came in... he’s a great producer. He produced many of the earlier records for Columbia and also for labels which they had before–Okeh and stuff like that. I believe he did the Robert Johnson records. WENNER: What did you do in the year between “Blonde on Blonde” and “John Wesley Harding”? DYLAN: Well I was on tour part of that time... Australia, Sweden... an overseas tour. Then I came back... and in the spring of that year, I was scheduled to go out–it was one month off, I had a one-month vacation – I was gonna go back on the road again in July. “Blonde on Blonde” was up on the charts at this time. At that time I had a dreadful motorcycle accident... Which put me away for awhile... and I still didn’t sense the importance of that accident till at least a year after that. I realized that it was a real accident. I mean I thought that I was just gonna get up and go back to doing what I was doing before... but I couldn’t do it anymore. What did I do during that year? I helped work on a film... which was supposed to be aired on “Stage 67,” a television show which isn’t on anymore... I don’t think it was on for very long. WENNER: What change did the motorcycle accident make? DYLAN: What change? Well, it... it limited me. It’s hard to speak about the change, you know? It’s not the type of change that one can put into words... besides the physical change. I had a busted vertebrae; neck vertebrae. And there’s really not much to talk about. I don’t want to talk about it. WENNER: Laying low for a year... you must have had time to think. That was the ABC-TV show? What happened to the tapes of that? How come that never got shown? DYLAN: Well, I could make an attempt to answer that, but... (laughs)... I think my manager could probably answer it a lot better. WENNER: I don’t think he answers too many questions. DYLAN: Doesn’t he? He doesn’t answer question? Well he’s a nice guy. He’ll usually talk to you if you show some enthusiasm for what you’re talking about. WENNER: So what happened to the tapes? DYLAN: You mean that film? As far as I know, it will be sold... or a deal will be made, for its sale. That’s what I’m told, but you see, Jann, I don’t hold these movie people in too high a position. You know this movie, “Don’t Look Back”? Well, that splashed my face all over the world, that movie “Don’t Look Back.” I didn’t get a penny from that movie, you know... so when people say why don’t you go out and work and why don’t you do this and why don’t you do that, people don’t know half of what a lot of these producers and people, lawyers... they don’t know the half of those stories. I’m an easy-going kind of fellow, you know... I’m forgive and forget. I like to think that way. But I’m a little shy of these people. I’m not interested in finding out anymore about any film. WENNER: Did you like “Don’t Look Back”? DYLAN: I’d like it a lot more if I got paid for it. (laughter) WENNER: There was supposed to be another film that Pennebaker shot – I don’t know when or where – may be it was the ABC film... DYLAN: That was it. Sure it was. That’s the one you’re talking about. WENNER: Is it a good one? DYLAN: Well, we cut it fast on the eye. It’s fast on the eye. I’d have to let you see it for yourself, to think about if it’s a good one. I don’t know if it’s a good one. For me, it’s too fast for the eye... but there are quite a few people who say it’s really good. Johnny Cash is in it. John Lennon’s in it. The Band’s in it. Who else... a lot of different people from the European capitals of the world are in it. WENNER: Princes and princesses? (laughs) DYLAN: Well not princesses, (Laughs) but presidents (laughs) and people like that. WENNER: What is the nature of your acquaintance with John Lennon? DYLAN: Oh, I always love to see John. Always. He’s a wonderful fellow... and I always like to see him. WENNER: He said that the first time that you met, in New York, after one of the concerts or something like that, it was a very uptight situation. DYLAN: It probably was, yes. Like, you know how it used to be for them. They couldn’t go out of their room. They used to tell me you could hardly get in to see them. There used to be people surrounding them, not only in the streets, but in the corridors in the hotel. I should say it was uptight. WENNER: How often have you seen them subsequently? DYLAN: Well, I haven’t seen them too much recently. WENNER: What do you think of the bed-ins for Peace? Him and Yoko. DYLAN: Well, you know... everybody’s doing what they can do. I don’t mind what he does, really... I always like to see him. WENNER: Do you read the current critics? The music critics, so-called “rock and roll writers?” DYLAN: Well I try to keep up. I try to keep up-to-date... I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to. I don’t know half the groups that are playing around now. I don’t know half of what I should. WENNER: Are there any that you’ve seen that you dig? DYLAN: Well I haven’t seen any. WENNER: I mean like Traffic, and... DYLAN: See, I never saw Traffic... I never even saw Cream. I feel bad about those things, but what can I do? WENNER: See them? (laughs) DYLAN: Well, I can’t now. I’m going to see this new group, called Blind Faith. I’m going to make it my duty to go see them... ‘cause they’ll probably be gone (laughter) in another year or so. So I’d better get up there quick and see them. WENNER: Do you like Stevie Winwood singing? DYLAN: Oh sure, sure... Stevie Winwood, he came to see us in Manchester. Last time we were in Manchester... that was 1966. Or was it Birmingham? His brother – he’s got a brother named Muff – Muff took us all out to see a haunted house, outside of Manchester, or Birmingham, one of those two. Or was it Newcastle? Something like that. We went out to see a haunted house, where a man and his dog was to have burned up in the 13th century. Boy, that place was spooky. That’s the last time I saw Stevie Winwood. WENNER: Have you been listening to his have you heard the Traffic records? The stuff that he’s been doing lately? DYLAN: I heard them doing “Gimmie Some Lovin’”; I love that. I didn’t get all the names... after that. I seem to recall hearing a Traffic record. I know I’ve heard the Traffic... the group, Traffic, on the radio. I’ve heard that. WENNER: Have you heard the San Francisco bands? DYLAN: Jefferson Airplane? Quicksilver Messenger Service. Yeah, I’ve heard them. The Grateful Dead. WENNER: Do you like them? DYLAN: Yeah, sure do. WENNER: Is there anything happening on the current rock and roll scene that strikes you as good? DYLAN: Yeah, I heard a record by Johnny Thunder. It’s called “I’m Alive.” Never heard it either, huh? Well, I can’t believe it. Everyone I’ve talked to, I’ve asked them if they’ve heard that record. WENNER: Is it on the radio right now? DYLAN: I don’t know. I heard it on the radio a month ago, two months ago... three months ago. It was one of the most powerful records I’ve ever heard. It’s called “I’m Alive.” By Johnny Thunder. Well, it was that sentiment, truly expressed. That’s the most I can say... if you heard the record, you’d know what I mean. But that’s about all... WENNER: Do you like the stuff that Ray Stevens is doing? DYLAN: Oh, I’ve always liked Ray Stevens. Sure. WENNER: Have you had occasion to go to Memphis, you know, when you’re down there... or Muscle Shoals or Pensacola, any of the great musical centers of the South? DYLAN: No, I’ve never been in any of the recording studios there. WENNER: Have you ever met Ray Stevens? DYLAN: Uh, I’ve been in the same building with Ray Stevens, He was behind another door... but I’ve never met him; I’ve never shook his hand. No. WENNER: I don’t want to get nosy or get into your personal life... but there was a series recently in the Village Voice, about your growing up, living, and going to high school. Did you read that series? DYLAN: Yeah I did. At least, I read some of it. WENNER: Was it accurate? DYLAN: Well, it was accurate as far as this fellow who was writing it... this fellow... I wouldn’t have read it if I thought... he was using me to write his story. So I feel a little unusual in this case, ‘cause I can see through this writer’s aims. But as far as liking it or disliking it, I didn’t do neither of those things. I mean it’s just publicity from where I am. So if they want to spend six or seven issues writing about me (laughs)... as long as they get it right, you know, as long as they get it in there, I can’t complain. WENNER: You must have some feelings about picking up a newspaper that has a hundred thousand circulation and seeing that some guy’s gone and talked to your parents and your cousins, and uncles... DYLAN: Well, the one thing I did... I don’t like the way this writer talked about my father who has passed away. I didn’t dig him talking about my father and using his name. Now that’s the only thing about the article I didn’t dig. But that boy has got some lessons to learn. WENNER: What did he say? DYLAN: That don’t matter what he said. He didn’t have no right to speak about my father, who has passed away. If he wants to do a story on me, that’s fine. I don’t care what he wants to say about me. But to uhh... I got the feeling that he was taking advantage of some good people that I used to know and he was making fun of a lot of things. I got the feeling he was making fun of quite a few things ... this fellow, Toby. You know what I mean, Jann? Soooo ... we’ll just let that stand as it is... for now. WENNER: I’ve gone through all the collected articles that have appeared, all the early ones and Columbia records’ biographies, that’s got the story about running away from home at 11 and 12 and 13-one-half... why did you put out that story? DYLAN: I didn’t put out any of those stories! WENNER: Well, it’s the standard Bob Dylan Biography.... DYLAN: Well, you know how it is, Jann... If you’re sittin’ in a room, and you have to have something done... I remember once, I was playing at Town Hall, and the producer of it came over with that biography... you know, I’m a songwriter, I’m not a biography writer, and I need a little help with these things. So if I’m sitting in a room with some people, and I say “Come on now, I need some help; gimme a biography,” so there might be three or four people there and out of those three or four people maybe they’ll come up with something, come up with a biography. So we put it down, it reads well, and the producer of the concert is satisfied. In fact, he even gets a kick out of it. You dig what I mean? But in actuality, this thing wasn’t written for hundreds of thousands of people... it was just a little game for whoever was going in there and getting a ticket, you know, they get one of these things too. That’s just show business. So you do that, and pretty soon you’ve got a million people who get it on the side. You know? They start thinkin’ that it’s written all for them. And it’s not written for them–it was written for someone who bought the ticket to the concert. You got all these other people taking it too seriously. Do you know what I mean? So a lot of things have been blown out of proportion. WENNER: At the time when all your records were out, and you were working and everybody was writing stories about you, you let that become your story... you sort of covered up your parents, and your old friends... you sort of kept people away from them... DYLAN: Did I? WENNER: Well, that was the impression it gave... DYLAN: Jann, you know, my best friends... you’re talking about old friends, and best friends... if you want to go by those standards, I haven’t seen my best friends for over 15 years. You know what I mean? I’m not in the business of covering anything up. If I was from New Jersey, I could make an effort to show people my old neighborhood. If I was from Baltimore, same thing. Well, I’m from the Midwest, Boy, that’s two different worlds. This whole East Coast... there are a few similarities between the East Coast and the Midwest; and, of course, the people are similar, but it’s a big jump, So, I came out of the Midwest, but I’m not interested in leading anybody back there. That’s not my game. WENNER: Why do you choose to live in the East? DYLAN: Well, because we’re nearer New York now. We don’t choose anything... we just go with the wind. That’s it. WENNER: Most people who become successful in records, especially artists, start wondering at some point about whether they’re becoming businessmen, taking care of contracts, and making money... did you ever get that? DYLAN: Yeah, I certainly did. I’d love to become a businessman, (laughs). Love it. WENNER: What do you think of the music business? DYLAN: I’d love to become a businessman in the music business. WENNER: Doing what? DYLAN: Well, doing that same thing that other businessmen are doing ... talking about recording, publishing, producing... WENNER: Have you ever wanted to produce an album for some other artist? DYLAN: I have. WENNER: Which one? DYLAN: Uhh... it’s been a long time. I can’t even remember which one. I saw somebody once, it was down in the Village. Anyway... WENNER: Are there any artists around today that you’d like to produce? DYLAN: Well, there was some talk about producing Burt Lancaster doing the hymn “I Saw St. Augustine”... WENNER: Well, the movie business being what it is... going back to reviews that you’ve gotten for various albums; everybody has a lot of strange interpretations and decisions... have you ever read any criticisms about that that you liked or thought was accurate–or possibly got close to what you were trying to do? DYLAN: Mmmmm... I can’t say that I have. I don’t recall. Like I say, Jann, I don’t keep up with it as much as I should. WENNER: At the time when “Highway 61” and “Bringing It All Back Home” were coming out... do you remember anything from them? DYLAN: Do you? WENNER: Yeah, the liner notes. DYLAN: What did you like about those liner notes? WENNER: I think they were very groovy. They explained what was going on in the album, and how the album came to be recorded, and how it all came to be said. Why didn’t you publish “Tarantula”? DYLAN: Why? Well... it’s a long story. It begins with when I suddenly began to sell quite a few records, and a certain amount of publicity began to be carried in all the major news magazines about this “rising young star.” Well, this industry being what it is, book companies began sending me contracts, because I was doing interviews before and after concerts, and reporters would say things like “What else do you write?” And I would say, “Well, I don’t write much of anything else.” And they would say, “Oh, come on. You must write other things. Tell us something else. Do you write books?” And I’d say, “Sure, I write books.” After the publishers saw that I wrote books, they began to send me contracts... Doubleday, Macmillan, Hill and Range (laughter)... we took the biggest one, and then owed them a book. You follow me? But there was no book. We just took the biggest contract. Why? I don’t know. Why I did, I don’t know. Why I was told to do it, I don’t know. Anyway, I owed them a book. So I sat down, and said “Wow, I’ve done many things before, it’s not so hard to write a book.” So I sat down and wrote them a book in the hotel rooms and different places, plus I got a lot of other papers laying around that other people had written, so I threw it all together in a week and sent it to them. Well, it wasn’t long after that when I got it back to proofread it. I got it back and I said “My gosh, did I write this? I’m not gonna have this out.” Do you know what I mean? “I’m not gonna put this out. The folks back home just aren’t going to understand this at all.” I said, “Well, I have to do some corrections on this,” I told them, and set about correcting it. I told them I was improving it. Boy, they were hungry for this book. They didn’t care what it was. They just wanted... people up there were saying “Boy, that’s the second James Joyce,” and “Jack Kerouac again” and they were saying “Homer revisited”... and they were all just talking through their heads. They just wanted to sell books, that’s all they wanted to do. It wasn’t about anything... and I knew that–I figured they had to know that, they were in the business of it. I knew that, and I was just nobody. If I knew it, where were they at? They were just playing with me. My book. So I wrote a new book. I figured I was satisfied with it and I sent that in. Wow, they looked at that and said “Well, that’s another book.” And I said, “Well, but it’s better.” And they said, “Okay, we’ll print this.” So they printed that up and sent that back to proofread it. So I proofread it–I just looked at the first paragraph–and knew I just couldn’t let that stand. So I took the whole thing with me on tour. I was going to rewrite it all. Carried a typewriter around... around the world. Trying to meet this deadline which they’d given me to put this book out. They just backed me into a corner. A lot of invisible people. So finally, I had a deadline on it, and was working on it, before my motorcycle accident. And I was studying all kinds of different prints and how I wanted them to print the book, by this time. I also was studying at lot of other poets at this time... I had books which I figured could lead me somewhere... and I was using a little bit from everything. But still, it wasn’t any book; it was just to satisfy the publishers who wanted to print something that we had a contract for. Follow me? So eventually, I had my motorcycle accident and that just got me out of the whole thing, ‘cause I didn’t care anymore. As it stands now, Jann, I could write a book. But I’m gonna write it first, and then give it to them. You know what I mean? WENNER: Do you any particular subject in mind, or plan, for a book? DYLAN: Do you? WENNER: For yours or mine? DYLAN: (laughs) For any of them. WENNER: What writers today do you dig? Like who would you read if you were writing a book? Mailer? DYLAN: All of them. There’s something to be learned from them all. WENNER: What about the poets? You once said something about Smokey Robinson... DYLAN: I didn’t mean Smokey Robinson, I meant Arthur Rimbaud. I don’t know how I could’ve gotten Smokey Robinson mixed up with Arthur Rimbaud, (laughter) But I did. WENNER: Do you see Allen Ginsberg much? DYLAN: Not at all. Not at all. WENNER: Do you think he had any influence on your songwriting at all? DYLAN: I think he did at a certain period. That period of... “Desolation Row,” that kind of New York type period, when all the songs were just “city songs.” His poetry is city poetry. Sounds like the city. WENNER: Before, you were talking about touring and using drugs. During that period of songs like “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Baby Blue” which a lot of writers have connected to the drug experience, not in the sense of them being “psychedelic music,” or drug songs, but having come out of the drug experience. DYLAN: How so? WENNER: In terms of perceptions. A level of perceptions... awareness of the songs... DYLAN: Awareness of the minute. You mean that? WENNER: An awareness of the mind. DYLAN: I would say so. WENNER: Did taking drugs influence the songs? DYLAN: No, not the writing of them, but it did keep me up there to pump ‘em out. WENNER: Why did you leave the city and city songs for the country and country songs? DYLAN: The country songs? WENNER: The songs... you were talking about “Highway 61” being a song of the city, and songs of New York City... DYLAN: What was on that album? WENNER: “Highway 61”? “Desolation Row,” “Queen Jane”... DYLAN: Well, it was also what the audiences wanted to hear, too... don’t forget that. When you play every night in front of an audience, you know what they want to hear. It’s easier to write songs then. You know what I’m talking about? WENNER: Who do you think your current audience is? Who do you think you’re selling records to? What kind of people? DYLAN: Well, I don’t know. When I go out on the road, I’ll find out, won’t I? WENNER: Did you get any indication of that from who showed up in the audience in Nashville? DYLAN: No, they were just people. Just people. I find every audience more or less the same, although you can have a certain attachment or disattachment for one because it may be bigger or smaller. But... people are just people. WENNER: Many people – writers, college students, college writers – all felt tremendously affected by your music and what you’re saying in the lyrics. DYLAN: Did they? WENNER: Sure. They felt it had a particular relevance to their lives... I mean, you must be aware of the way that people come on to you. DYLAN: Not entirely. Why don’t you explain to me. WENNER: I guess if you reduce it to its simplest terms, the expectation of your audience– the portion of your audience that I’m familiar with–feels that you have the answer. DYLAN: What answer? WENNER: Like from the film, “Don’t Look Back” –people asking you “Why? What is it? Where is it?” People are tremendously hung-up on what you write and what you say, tremendously hung-up. Do you react to that at all? Do you feel responsible to those people? DYLAN: I don’t want to make anybody worry about it... but boy, if I could ease someone’s mind, I’d be the first one to do it. I want to lighten every load. Straighten out every burden. I don’t want anybody to be hung-up... (laughs) especially over me, or anything I do. That’s not the point at all. WENNER: Let me put it another way... What I’m getting at is that you’re an extremely important figure in music and an extremely important figure in the experience of growing up today. Whether you put yourself in that position or not, you’re in that position. And you must have thought about it... and I’m curious to know what you think about that... DYLAN: What would I think about it? What can I do? WENNER: You wonder if you’re really that person. DYLAN: What person? WENNER: A great “youth leader”... DYLAN: If I thought I was that person, wouldn’t I be out there doing it? Wouldn’t I be, if I thought I was meant to do that, wouldn’t I be doing it? I don’t have to hold back. This Maharishi, he thinks that– right? He’s out there doing it. If I thought that, I’d be out there doing it. Don’t you... you agree, right? So obviously, I don’t think that. WENNER: What do you feel about unwillingly occupying that position? DYLAN: I can see that position filled by someone else... not by... the position you’re speaking of... I play music, man. I write songs. I have a certain balance about things, and I believe there should be an order to everything. Underneath it all. I believe, also, that there are people trained for this job that you’re talking about– “youth leader” type of thing, you know? I mean, there must be people trained to do this type of work. And I’m just one person, doing what I do. Trying to get along... staying out of people’s hair, that’s all. WENNER: You’ve been also a tremendous influence on a lot of musicians and writers, they’re very obviously affected by your style, the way you do things... DYLAN: Who?

Voldar: Часть 2. WENNER: Well, somebody like Phil Ohs, for example... a lot of people like that. DYLAN: Phil Ochs, uh... was around the same time I was, I remember when he came to town. He had his... he was doing his “Stand Tall Billy Sol” type songs. I mean, he had it then. I think he made it, there being a certain amount of momentum– he pushed–from being on the scene. But he did bring his own thing in, when he same in. He didn’t – as some people – come in as a dishwasher, to dig some sounds and suddenly put down the broom, and pick up the guitar. You know what I mean? WENNER: I’m thinking also of other singers, of people who were singing before and playing the guitar. DYLAN: Do you see any influence in the Motown? All those things that the Motown records are doing now? Like “Runaway Child” and those kind of things. I mean, Motown wasn’t doing those kind of records a few years ago, were they? What do you think they’re doing, Jann? Are they really sincere and all that kind of thing? WENNER: I think they’re sincere about making good records, and they’re going to sell a lot of them. I dig that. Do you like the Motown records? DYLAN: Well, yeah... I like them... WENNER: Do you like the ones today better than the ones that they were doing before? DYLAN: Oh I have always liked the Motown records. Always. But because I like them so much, I see that change. WENNER: Have you got anything to do with that change? DYLAN: Have I? Not that I know of. WENNER: Do you think that you’ve played any role in the change of popular music in the last four years? DYLAN: I hope not. (laughs) WENNER: Well, a lot of people say you have. DYLAN: (laughs) Well, you know, I’m not one to argue. (laughs). WENNER: There’s a lot of talk about you and Albert Grossman, your relationship with Albert Grossman, and whether he’s going to continue to manage you. DYLAN: Well... as far as I know, things will remain the same, until the length of our contract. And if we don’t sign another contract, or if he does not have a hand in producing my next concerts or have a hand in any of my next work, it’s only because he’s too busy. ‘Cause he’s got so many acts now... it’s so hard for him to be in all places all the time. I mean you know, it’s the old story... you can’t be in two places at once. That old story. You know what I mean? WENNER: When does your contract with him expire? DYLAN: Sometime this year. WENNER: You were supposed to leave Columbia and sign with MGM? A million dollars... what happened to that? DYLAN: It... went up in smoke. WENNER: Did you want a new label? DYLAN: I didn’t, no. WENNER: Who did? DYLAN: I believe my advisors. WENNER: I take it you haven’t had any recent trouble with Columbia, like you used to have in the beginning... DYLAN: No... no. WENNER: Do you know approximately how many songs that you’ve recorded that have not been released? Like songs left over from recording “John Wesley Harding” or “Blonde On Blonde”? Do you have any idea how many? DYLAN: Well, we try to use them all. There may be a few lying around. WENNER: What do you think was the best song, popular song, to come out last year? DYLAN: Uhh... I like that one... of Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Rolling On the River”? WENNER: Any others? DYLAN: George Jones had one called “Small Town Laboring Man.” WENNER: You’ve been very reluctant to talk to reporters, the press and so on... why is that? DYLAN: Why would you think? WENNER: Well, I know why you won’t go on those things. DYLAN: Well, if you know why, you tell ‘em... ‘cause I find it hard to talk about. People don’t understand how the press works. People don’t understand that the press, they just use you to sell papers. And, in a certain way, that’s not bad... but when they misquote you all the time, and when they just use you to fill in some story. And when you read it after, it isn’t anything the way you pictured it happening. Well, anyhow, it hurts. It hurts because you think you were just played for a fool. And the more hurts you get, the less you want to do it. Ain’t that correct? WENNER: Were there any writers that you met that you liked? That you felt did good jobs? Wrote accurate stories... DYLAN: On what? WENNER: On you. For instance, I remember two big pieces – one was in the New Yorker, by Nat Hentoff... DYLAN: Yeah, I like ‘em. I like that. In a way, I like ‘em all, whether I feel bad about ‘em or not, in a way I like ‘em all. I seldom get a kick out of them, Jann, but... I mean, I just can’t be spending my time reading what people write. (laughter). I don’t know anybody who can, do you? WENNER: Do you set aside a certain amount of time during the day to... how much of the day do you think about songwriting and playing the guitar? DYLAN: Well, I try to get it when it comes. I play the guitar wherever I find one. But I try to write the song when it comes. I try to get it all... ‘cause if you don’t get it all, you’re not gonna get it. So the best kinds of songs you can write are in motel rooms and cars... places which are all temporary. ‘Cause you’re forced to do it. Rather, it lets you go into it. You go into your kitchen and try to write a song, and you can’t write a song – I know people who do this – I know some songwriters who go to work every day, at 8:30 and come home at 5:00. And usually bring something back... I mean, that’s legal too. It just depends on... how you do it. Me, I don’t have those kind of things known to me yet, so I just get ‘em when they come. And when they don’t come, I don’t try for it. WENNER: There’s been a lot of artists who have done your songs... songs that you have released and songs that you haven’t released. Have you written any songs lately for any other artists to do, specifically for that artist? Or any of your old songs. DYLAN: I wrote “To Be Alone With You”–that’s on “Nashville Skyline”–I wrote it for Jerry Lee Lewis. The one on “Nashville Skyline.” (Laughter.) He was down there when we were listening to the playbacks, and he came in. He was recording an album next door. He listened to it... I think we sent him a dub. “Peggy Day,” I kind of had the Mills Brothers in mind when I did that one (laughter). WENNER: Have you approached them yet? DYLAN: (Laughter.) No, unfortunately, I haven’t. WENNER: During what period of time did you write the songs on “Nashville Skyline”? During the month before you went down to do it or... DYLAN: Yeah, about a month before we did it. That’s why it seemed to be all connected. WENNER: You’re going to do your next album in Nashville? DYLAN: I don’t know, Jann. I don’t know where I’m gonna be doing the next album. Sometimes I envy the Beatles... they just go down to the studio, and play around... I mean, you’re bound to get a record. You know what I mean? Bound to geta record. Their studio is just a drive away... boy, I’d have an album out every month. I mean, how could you not? WENNER: Have you ever thought about getting four- or eight-track equipment up where you live? DYLAN: Well, everyone’s talking about that now. But it’s just talk as far as I know. I would come to New York if I wanted to use the studio, because it’s all here... if you need a good engineer, or if you need a song, or somebody to record it, an artist... whereas, some place like up in the country there, in the mountains, you could get a studio in, but that doesn’t guarantee you anything else but the studio. You can get violin players, cello players, you can get dramatic readers... you can get anybody at the drop of a hat, in New York City. I imagine it’s that way over in London, where the Beatles make their records. Anything they want to put on their record, they just call up and it’s there. I’d like to be in that position. WENNER: What do you look for when you make a record... I mean, what qualities, do you judge it by when you hear it played back? DYLAN: Ummmm... for the spirit. I like to hear a good lick once in a while. Maybe it’s the spirit... don’t you think so? I mean, if the spirit’s not there, it don’t matter how good a song it is or... WENNER: What do you think of the current rock and roll groups doing all the country music? DYLAN: Well, once again, it really doesn’t matter what kind of music they do, just so long as people are making music. That’s a good sign. There are certainly more people around making music than there was when I was growing up. I know that. WENNER: Do you find any that are particularly good–country rock, or merely rock and roll bands, doing country material, using steel guitars? DYLAN: As long as it sounds good... WENNER: Do any particular one of those groups appeal to you? DYLAN: Who... who are in those groups? WENNER: Oh, Flying Burrito Brothers... DYLAN: Boy, I love them... the Flying Burrito Brothers, unh-huh. I’ve always known Chris, you know, from when he was in the Byrds. And he’s always been a fine musician. Their records knocked me out. (laughs). That poor little hippie boy on his way to town... (laughs). WENNER: What about the Byrds... they did a country album... DYLAN: “Sweetheart” Well, they had a distinctive sound, the Byrds... they usually were hanging in there... WENNER: Of all the versions of “This Wheel’s On Fire,” which do you like the best? DYLAN: Uh... the Band’s. Who else did it? WENNER: Julie Driscoll... the Byrds did it. DYLAN: I remember hearing the Julie Driscoll one... I don’t remember hearing the Byrds. WENNER: What was the origin of that collection of songs, of that tape? DYLAN: The origin of it? What do you mean? WENNER: Where was that done? DYLAN: Well that was done out in... out in somebody’s basement. Just a basement tape. It was just for... WENNER: Did you do most, did you write most of those songs, those demos, for yourself? DYLAN: Right. WENNER: And then decide against them? DYLAN: No, they weren’t demos for myself, they were demos of the songs. I was being pushed again... into coming up with some songs. So, you know... you know how those things go. WENNER: Do you have any artists in mind for any of those particular songs? DYLAN: No. They were just fun to do. That’s all. They were a kick to do. Fact, I’d do it all again. You know... that’s really the way to do a recording – in a peaceful, relaxed setting – in somebody’s basement. With the windows open... and a dog lying on the floor. Let me explain something about this interview. If you give one magazine an interview, then the other magazine wants an interview. If you give one to one, then the other one wants one. So pretty soon, you’re in the interview business... you’re just giving interviews. Well, as you know, this can really get you down. Doing nothing but giving interviews. So the only way you can do it is to give press conferences. But you see, you have to have something to give a press conference about. Follow me? So that’s why I don’t give interviews. There’s no mysterious reason to it, there’s nothing organized behind it ... it’s just that if you give an interview to one magazine, then another one’ll get mad. WENNER: Why have you chosen to do this interview? DYLAN: ‘Cause this is a music paper. Why would I want to give an interview to Look magazine? Tell me, why? WENNER: I don’t know... to sell records. DYLAN: To sell records, I could do it. Right. But I have a gold record without doing it, do you understand me? Well, if I had to sell records, I’d be out there giving interviews to everybody. Don’t you see? Mr. Clive Davis, he was president of Columbia Records, and he said he wouldn’t be surprised if this last album sold a million units. Without giving one interview. Now you tell me, Jann, why am I going to go out and give an interview? WENNER: To get hassled... DYLAN: Why would I want to go out and get hassled? If they’re gonna pay me, I mean... who wants to do that. I don’t. WENNER: Do you have any idea how much money your publishing has brought in over the last five years? DYLAN: Well, now, that’s difficult to answer because my songs are divided up into three, no, four companies. So there you have it. There you have it right there. WENNER: Which companies? DYLAN: Well, I’ve got songs with Leeds Music. I’ve got songs with Whitmark Music. I’ve got a bunch of songs with Dwarf Music. I’ve got songs in Big Sky Music. So you see, my songs are divided up, so... WENNER: Do you own Big Sky Music wholly yourself? DYLAN: It’s my company. I chose to start this company. WENNER: You put all the estimated income from those four companies together, or estimated gross income from publishing from those, it must be a considerable... DYLAN: Not as much as the Beatles. WENNER: Yeah, but other than the Beatles? DYLAN: Not as much as those writers from Motown. WENNER: Other than the writers from Motown... DYLAN: You know there are many more musical organizations than me. They’ve got staffs of writers bringing in more money than you can dream of. WENNER: What songwriters do you like? Do you like any of the teams like Holland, Dozier, Holland or Hayes and Porter... DYLAN: Yeah, I do. I know that fellow – what’s his name, Isaac Hayes? – he does a real nice song called “The Other Woman.” I believe that’s the title to it. It’s on his album. I think it’s on his new one. I don’t believe he wrote it, though. WENNER: Otis Redding was playing at the Whiskey A Go Go, a coupla years ago, you came in and talked to Otis. What was that all about? DYLAN: He was gonna do “Just Like A Woman.” I played him a dub of it. I think he mighta cut it for a demo... I don’t think he ever recorded it, though. He was a fine man. WENNER: Why did you think “Just Like A Woman” would be a good song for him to do? DYLAN: Well I didn’t necessarily think it was a good song for him to do, but he asked me if I had any material. It just so happened that I had the dubs from my new album. So we went over and played it. I think he took a dub... that was the first and only time I ever met him. WENNER: I take it that you dug Otis real well. Are there any other soul singers that you dig as much as Otis? DYLAN: You mean rhythm and blues pop? Well, you know I’ve always liked Mavis Staples ever since she was a little girl. She’s always been my favorite... she’s always had my favorite voice. WENNER: Have you heard their new Stax album? DYLAN: I heard one of those... the ones they’re doing with other people. Yeah, I heard that, that one that Pop Staples did. (laughs) It’s ridiculous. Oh, Steve Cropper did do a nice song on that album... that he wrote, called “Water.” WENNER: On his own album? DYLAN: No, not on his own album. On the “Jammed Together” album. I find it interesting seeing... Mr. Staples being referred to as “Pop.” (laughter) WENNER: Have you heard the Steve Cropper solo album? DYLAN: Yeah, I heard that too. WENNER: Do you like that? DYLAN: Sure. I’ve always dug Steve Cropper... his guitar playing. Ever since the first Booker T. record. I heard that back in the Midwest. Yeah, everybody was playing like him. WENNER: What records of Otis’ did you dig? DYLAN: I’ve got one that contained that song where he was born in a tent by the river–(hums and sings) “A Change Is Gonna Come.” Yeah, I like that one. WENNER: What is your day-to-day life like? DYLAN: Hmmmm... there’s no way I could explain that to you, Jann. Every day is different. Depends on what I’m doing. WENNER: Do you paint a lot? DYLAN: Well, I may be fiddling around with the car or I may be painting a boat, or... possibly washing the windows. I just do what has to be done. I play a lot of music, when there’s a call in... I’m always trying to put shows together, which never come about. I don’t know what it is, but sometimes we get together and I say, “Okay, let’s take six songs and do ‘em up.” So we do six songs, we got ‘em in, let’s say, 40 minutes... we got a stopwatch timing ‘em. But I mean nothing happens to it. We could do anything with it, but I mean... Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I’m sorry I did. All the time you’re hurrying, you’re not really as aware as you should be. You’re trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me? WENNER: That’s the awkwardness of this interview. DYLAN: Well, I don’t find anything awkward about it. I think it’s going real great. WENNER: The purpose of any interview is to let the person who’s being interviewed unload his head. DYLAN: Well, that’s what I’m doing. WENNER: And trying to draw that out is... DYLAN: Boy, that’s a good... that’d be a great title for a song. “Unload my head. Going down to the store... going down to the corner to unload my head.” I’m gonna write that up when I get back, (laughter) “Going to Tallahassee to unload my head.” WENNER: What do you think can happen with your career as a singer? DYLAN: What are the possibilities? WENNER: Go on the road, continue to make records... for instance, do you foresee continuing to make records? DYLAN: If they’re enjoyable. I’m going to have to receive a certain amount of enjoyment out of my work pretty soon. I’d like to keep a little closer to the studios than I am now. It’s awful hard for me to make records when I’ve got to go 4,000 miles away, you know? Like I say, when you do have these companies around who’re just there to serve... WENNER: Are you thinking of moving to Nashville? I mean that would be... DYLAN: Well, if I moved to Nashville, I’d still have to book studio time, wouldn’t I? WENNER: But still, you’d have the accessibility of the session men and the engineers... DYLAN: That’s true. But I’d have to do everything with that same sound, wouldn’t I? I couldn’t really use a variety of techniques. WENNER: Can you see a time when you would stop making records? DYLAN: Well, let’s put it this way: making a record isn’t any more than just recording a song, for me. Well, that’s what it’s been up ‘til now. Not necessarily going into the studio for any other reason than to record a song. So, if I was to stop writing songs, I would stop recording. Or let’s say, if I was to stop singing, I guess I would stop recording. But I don’t forsee that. I’ll be recording, ‘cause that’s a way for me to unload my head. WENNER: You said in one of your songs on “Highway 61”... “I need a dump truck, mama, to unload my head.” Do you still need a dump truck or something? (laughter) DYLAN: What album was that? WENNER: It was on “Highway 61.” What I’m trying to ask is what are the changes that have gone on between the time you did “Highway 61” and “Nashville Skyline” or “John Wesley Harding”? DYLAN: The changes. I don’t think I know exactly what you mean. WENNER: How has life changed for you? Your approach to... your view of what you do... DYLAN: Not much. I’m still the same person. I’m still uhh... going at it in the same old way. Doing the same old thing. WENNER: Do you think you’ve settled down, and slowed down? DYLAN: I hope so. I was going at a tremendous speed... at the time of my “Blonde on Blonde” album, I was going at a tremendous speed. WENNER: How did you make the change? The motorcycle accident? DYLAN: I just took what came. That’s how I made the changes. I took what came. WENNER: What do they come from? DYLAN: What was what coming from? Well, they come from the same sources that everybody else’s do. I don’t know if it comes from within oneself anymore than it comes from without oneself. Or outside of oneself. Don’t you see what I mean? Maybe the inside and the outside are both the same. I don’t know. But, I feel it just like everyone else. What’s that old line – there’s a line from one of those old songs out... “I can recognize it in others, I can feel it in myself.” You can’t say that’s from the inside or the outside, it’s like both. WENNER: What people do you think from the outside have influenced a change? DYLAN: Uhh... what change are you talking about? WENNER: The change from “Highway 61” to “Nashville Skyline”... DYLAN: I’m not probably as aware of that change as you are, because I haven’t listened to that album “Highway 61”... I’d probably do myself a lot of good going back and listening to it. I’m not aware of that change. I probably could pinpoint it right down if I heard that album, but I haven’t heard it for quite a while. WENNER: Are there any old albums that you do listen to? DYLAN: Well, I don’t sit around and listen to my records, if that’s what you mean. WENNER: Like picking up a high school yearbook, and just... DYLAN: Oh, I love to do that...every once in a while. That’s the way I listen to my records – every once in a while. Every once in a while I say “Well, I’d like to see that fellow again.” WENNER: Are there any albums or tracks from the albums that you think now were particularly good? DYLAN: On any of my old albums? Uhh... As songs or as performances? WENNER: Songs. DYLAN: Oh yeah, quite a few. WENNER: Which ones? DYLAN: Well, if I was performing now... if I was making personal appearances, you would know which ones, because I would play them. You know? But I don’t know which ones I’d play now. I’d have to pick and choose. Certainly couldn’t play ‘em all. WENNER: Thinking about the titles on “Bringing It All Back Home.” DYLAN: I like “Maggie’s Farm.” I always liked “Highway 61 Revisited.” I always liked that song. “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Blowing In the Wind” and “Girl From the North Country” and “Boots of Spanish Leather” and “Times They Are A Changing’”... I liked “Ramona”... WENNER: Where did you write “Desolation Row”? Where were you when you wrote that? DYLAN: I was in the back of a taxi-cab. WENNER: In New York? DYLAN: Yeah. WENNER: During the period where you were recording songs with a rock and roll accompaniment, with a full-scale electric band, of those rock and roll songs that you did, which do you like? DYLAN: The best rock and roll songs... which ones are there? WENNER: Uhh... “Like A Rolling Stone”... DYLAN: Yeah, I probably liked that the best. WENNER: And that was the Tom Wilson record... how come you never worked with that collection of musicians again? DYLAN: Well, Michael Bloomfield, he was touring with Paul Butterfield at that time... and I could only get ‘im when I could. So I wouldn’t wait on Michael Bloomfield to make my records. He sure does play good, though. I missed having him there, but what could you do? WENNER: In talking about the songs as performances, which of the performances that you did, that were recorded... DYLAN: I like “Like A Rolling Stone”... I can hear it now, now that you’ve mentioned it. I like that sound. You mean, which recorded performances? WENNER: Yeah, I mean in your performance of the song... DYLAN: Oh... I like some of them on the last record, but I don’t know, I tend to close up in the studio. After I’ve... I could never get enough presence on me. Never really did sound like me, to me. WENNER: On “Nashville Skyline”, you see a lot of echo, and a lot of limiting. What made you decide to alter your voice technically and use those kind of studio tricks? Rather than doing it more or less flat. DYLAN: Well, how would you have liked it better? Would you have liked it flat? WENNER: I dig the echo. DYLAN: I do too. I dig the echo myself. That’s why... we did it that way. The old records do sound flat. I mean there’s just a flatness to them, they’re like two-dimensional. Isn’t that right? Well in this day and age, there’s no reason to make records like that. WENNER: “Nashville Skyline Rag” was that a jam that took place in a studio, or did you write the lyrics before? DYLAN: Ummm... I had that little melody quite a while before I recorded it. WENNER: There’s a cat named Alan Weberman who writes in the East Village Other. He calls himself the world’s leading Dylanologist. You know him? DYLAN: No... oh, yes, I did. Is this the guy who tears up all my songs? Well, he oughta take a rest. He’s way off. I saw something he wrote about “All Along the Watchtower,” and boy, let me tell you, this boy’s off. Not only did he create some type of fantasy – he had Allen Ginsberg in there–he couldn’t even hear the words to the song right. He didn’t hear the song right. Can you believe that? I mean this fellow couldn’t hear the words... or something. I bet he’s a hard working fellow, though. I bet he really does a good job if he could find something to do but it’s too bad it’s just my songs, ‘cause I don’t really know if there’s enough material in my songs to sustain someone who is really out to do a big job. You understand what I mean? I mean a fellow like that would be much better off writing about Tolstoy, or Dostoevsky, or Freud... doing a really big analysis of somebody who has countless volumes of writings. But here’s me, just a few records out. Somebody devoting so much time to those few records, when there’s such a wealth of material that hasn’t even been touched yet, or hasn’t even been heard or read... that escapes me. Does it escape you? I understand putting time into it, but I read this, in this East Village Other; I read it...and it was clever. And I got a kick out of reading it (laughter) on some level, but I didn’t want to think anybody was taking it too seriously. You follow me? WENNER: He’s just representative of thousands of people who do take it seriously. DYLAN: Well, that’s their own business. Why don’t I put it that way. That’s their business and his business. But... I’m the source of that and I don’t know if it’s my business or not, but I’m the source of it. You understand? So I see it a little differently than all of them do. WENNER: People in your audience, they obviously take it very seriously, and they look to you for something... DYLAN: Well, I wouldn’t be where I am today without them. So, I owe them... my music, which I would be playing for them. WENNER: Does the intensity of some of the response annoy you? DYLAN: No. No, I rather enjoy it. WENNER: I’m trying to get back to the thing about being a symbol of youth culture, being a spokesman for youth culture... what’re your opinions or thoughts on that? At some point you pick up the paper or the magazine and find out that this is happening and you know that you’re considered like this. That people are watching you for that... and you’ve got to say to yourself, “Am I hung-up?” DYLAN: Well, not any more than anybody else is who performs in public. I mean, everyone has his following. WENNER: What do you think your following is like? DYLAN: Well, I think there are all kinds... I imagine they’re... you would probably know just as much about that as I would. You know, they’re all kinds of people. I remember when I use to do concerts, you couldn’t pin ‘em down. All the road managers and the sound equipment carriers, and even the truck drivers would notice how different the audiences were, in terms of individual people. How different they... like sometimes I might have a concert and all the same kind of people show up, I mean, what does that mean? WENNER: Did you vote for President? DYLAN: We got down to the polls too late, (laughter) WENNER: People are always asking about what does this song mean and what does that song mean, and a lot of them seem to be based on some real person, just like any kind of fiction, you expect... are there any songs that you can relate to particular people, as having inspired the song? DYLAN: Not now I can’t. WENNER: What do you tell somebody who says, “What is ‘Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat’ about?” DYLAN: It’s just about that. I think that’s something I mighta taken out of the newspaper. Mighta seen a picture of one in a department store window. There’s really no more to it than that. I know it can get blown up into some kind of illusion. But in reality, it’s no more than that. Just a leopard skin pillbox. That’s all. WENNER: How did you come in contact with the Band? DYLAN: Well. There used to be this young lady that worked up at Al Grossman’s office – her name was Mary Martin, she’s from Canada. And she was a rather persevering soul, as she hurried around the office on her job; she was a secretary; did secretarial work, and knew all the bands and all the singers from Canada. She was from Canada. Anyway, I needed a group to play electric songs. WENNER: Where did you hear them play? DYLAN: Oh, I never did hear them play. I think the group I wanted was Jim Burton and Joe Osborne. I wanted Jim Burton, and Joe Osborne to play bass, and Mickey Jones. I knew Mickey Jones, he was playing with Johnny Rivers. They were all in California though. And there was some difficulty in making that group connect. One of them didn’t want to fly, and Mickey couldn’t make it immediately, and I think Jim Burton was playing with a television group at that time. WENNER: He used to play with Ricky Nelson? DYLAN: Oh, I think this was after that. He was playing with a group called the Shindogs, and they were on television. So he was doing that job. Anyway, that was the way it stood, and Mary Martin kept pushing this group who were out in New Jersey – I think they were in Elizabeth, New Jersey or Hartford, Connecticut, or some town close to around New York. She was pushing them, and she had two of the fellows come up to the office, so we could meet. And it was no more... no more, no less. I just asked them if they could do it and they said they could (laughs). These two said they could. And that was how it started. Easy enough, you know. WENNER: How come you never made an album with them? DYLAN: We tried. We cut a couple sides in the old New York Columbia studios. We cut two or three and right after “Positively 4th Street,” we cut some singles and they didn’t really get off the ground. You oughta hear ‘em. You know, you could find ‘em. They didn’t even make it on the charts. Consequently, I’ve not been back on the charts since the singles. I never did much care for singles, ‘cause you have to pay so much attention to them. Unless you make your whole album full of singles. You have to make them separately. So I didn’t really think about them too much that way. But, playing with the Band was a natural thing. We have a real different sound. Real different. But it wasn’t like anything heard. I heard one of the records recently ... it was on a jukebox. “Please Crawl Out Your Window.” WENNER: That was one of them? What were the others? DYLAN: There were some more songs out of that same session... “Sooner or Later”– that was on “Blonde on Blonde.” That’s one of my favorite songs. WENNER: What role did you play in the “Big Pink” album, the album they made by themselves. DYLAN: Well, I didn’t do anything on that album. They did that with John Simon. WENNER: Did you play piano on it or anything? DYLAN: No. WENNER: What kind of sound did you hear when you went in to make “John Wesley Harding”? DYLAN: I heard the sound that Gordon Lightfoot was getting, with Charlie McCoy and Kenny Buttrey. I’d used Charlie and Kenny both before, and I figured if he could get that sound, I could. But we couldn’t get it. (laughs) It was an attempt to get it, but it didn’t come off. We got a different sound... I don’t know what you’d call that... it’s a muffled sound. There used to be a lot of friction in the control booth, on these records I used to make. I didn’t know about it, I wasn’t aware of them until recently. Somebody would want to put limiters on this and somebody would want to put an echo on that, someone else would have some other idea. And myself, I don’t know anything about any of this. So I just have to leave it up in the air. In someone else’s hands. WENNER: The friction was between the engineer and the producer... DYLAN: No, the managers and the advisors and the agents. WENNER: Do you usually have sessions at which all these people are there, or do you prefer to close them up? DYLAN: Well, sometimes there’s a whole lot of people. Sometimes you can’t even move there’s so many people... other times, there’s no one. Just the musicians. WENNER: Which is more comfortable for you? DYLAN: Well, it’s much more comfortable when there’s... oh, I don’t know, I could have it both ways. Depends what kind of song I’m gonna do. I might do a song where I want all those people around. Then I do another song, and have to shut the lights off, you know? WENNER: Was “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland” originally planned as a whole side? DYLAN: That song is an example of a song... it started out as just a little thing, “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowland,” but I got carried away, somewhere along the line. I just sat down at a table and started writing. At the session itself. And I just got carried away with the whole thing... I just started writing and I couldn’t stop. After a period of time, I forgot what it was all about, and I started trying to get back to the beginning, (laughs) yeah. WENNER: Did you plan to go down and make a double record set? DYLAN: No. Those things just happen when you have the material. WENNER: Do you like that album? DYLAN: “Blonde on Blonde”? Yeah. But like I always think that a double set could be made into a single album. But I dug “Blonde on Blonde” and the Beatle’s thing. They are like huge collections of songs. But a real great record can usually be compacted down... although the Beatles have that album, and “Blonde on Blonde”...I’m glad that there’s two sides, that there’s that much... WENNER: How long did that take to record? DYLAN: “Blonde on Blonde”? Well I cut it in between. I was touring and I was doing it whenever I got a chance to get into the studio. So it was in the works for a while. I could only do maybe two or three songs at a time. WENNER: How long did “John Wesley Harding” take? DYLAN: You mean how many sessions? That took three sessions, but we did them in a month. The first two sessions were maybe three weeks to a month apart, and the second one was about two weeks from the third. WENNER: “John Wesley Harding”–why did you call the album that? DYLAN: Well, I called it that because I had that song, “John Wesley Harding.” It didn’t mean anything to me. I called it that, Jann, ‘cause I had the song “John Wesley Harding,” which started out to be a long ballad. I was gonna write a ballad on... like maybe one of those old cowboy... you know, a real long ballad. But in the middle of the second verse, I got tired. I had a tune, and I didn’t want to waste the tune, it was a nice little melody, so I just wrote a quick third verse, and I recorded that. But it was a silly little song (laughs)... I mean, it’s not a commercial song, in any kind of sense. At least, I don’t think it is. It was the one song on the album which didn’t seem to fit in. And I had it placed here and there, and I didn’t know what I was gonna call the album anyway. No one else had any ideas either. I placed it last and I placed it in the middle somewhere, but it didn’t seem to work. So somehow that idea came up to just put it first and get done with it right away, and that way when it comes up, no one’ll... you know, if someone’s listening to “All Along the Watchtower” and that comes up, and they’ll say, “Wow,” WENNER: What’s that?’ DYLAN: (laughs) WENNER: You knew that cowboy... DYLAN: I knew people were gonna be brought down when they heard that, and say “wow, what’s that?” You know a lot of people said that to me, but I knew it in front. I knew people were gonna listen to that song and say that they didn’t understand what was going on, but they would’ve singled that song out later, if we hadn’t called the album “John Wesley Harding” and placed so much importance on that, for people to start wondering about it... if that hadn’t been done, that song would’ve come up and people would have said it was a throw-away song. You know, and it would have probably got in the way of some other songs. See, I try very hard to keep my songs from interfering with each other. That’s all I’m trying to do. Place ‘em all out on the disc. Sometimes it’s really annoying to me, when I listen to all these dubs; I listen to one, and then I put on another one, and the one I heard before is still on my mind. I’m trying to keep away from that. WENNER: Why did you choose the name of the outlaw John Wesley Harding? DYLAN: Well, it fits in tempo. Fits right in tempo. Just what I had at hand. WENNER: What other titles did you have for the album? DYLAN: Not for that one. That was the only title that came up for that one. But for the “Nashville Skyline” one, the title came up “John Wesley Harding, Volume II.” We were gonna do that... the record company wanted to call the album “Love Is All There Is.” I didn’t see anything wrong with it, but it sounded a little spooky to me... WENNER: What about “Blonde on Blonde”? DYLAN: Well, that title came up when... I don’t even recall how exactly it came up, but I do know it was all in good faith. It has to do with just the word. I don’t know who thought of that. I certainly didn’t. WENNER: Of all the albums as albums, excluding your recent ones, which one do you think was the most successful in what it was trying to do? Which was the most fully realized, for you? DYLAN: I think the second one. The second album I made. WENNER: Why? DYLAN: Well, I got a chance to... I felt real good about doing an album with my own material. My own material and I picked a little on it, picked the guitar, and it was a big Gibson–I felt real accomplished on that. “Don’t Think Twice.” Got a chance to do some of that. Got a chance to play in open tuning... “Oxford Town,” I believe that’s on that album. That’s open tuning. I got a chance to do talking blues. I got a chance to do ballads, like “Girl From the North Country.” It’s just because it had more variety. I felt good at that. WENNER: Of the electric ones, which do you prefer? DYLAN: Well, sound-wise, I prefer this last one. ‘Cause it’s got the sound. See, I’m listening for sound now. WENNER: As a collection of songs? DYLAN: Songs? Well, this last album maybe means more to me, ‘cause I did undertake something. In a certain sense. And... there’s a certain pride in that. WENNER: It was more premeditated than the others? I mean, you knew what you were gonna go after? DYLAN: Right. WENNER: Where did the name “Nashville Skyline”... DYLAN: Well, I always like to tie the name of the album in with some song. Or if not some song, some kind of general feeling. I think that just about fit because it was less in the way, and less specific than any of the other ones on there. Certainly couldn’t call the album “Lay, Lady Lay.” I wouldn’t have wanted to call it that, although that name was brought up. It didn’t get my vote, but it was brought up. “Peggy Day – Lay, Peggy Day,” that was brought up. A lot of things were brought up. “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with Peggy Day.” That’s another one. Some of the names just didn’t seem to fit. “Girl From the North Country.” That was another title which didn’t really seem to fit. Picture me on the front holding a guitar and “Girl From the North Country” printed on top. (laughs) “Tell Me That It Isn’t Peggy Day.” I don’t know who thought of that one. WENNER: What general thing was happening that made you want to start working with the Band, rather than working solo? DYLAN: I only worked solo, because there wasn’t much going on. There wasn’t. There were established people around... yeah, The Four Seasons... there were quite a few other established acts. But I worked alone because it was easier to. Plus, everyone else I knew was working alone, writing and singing. There wasn’t much opportunity for groups or bands then; there wasn’t. You know that. WENNER: When did you decide to get one together, like that? You played at Forest Hills, that was where you first appeared with a band? Why did you feel the time had come? DYLAN: To do that? Well, because I could pay a backing group now. See, I didn’t want to use a backing group unless I could pay them. WENNER: Do you ever get a chance to work frequently with the Band? In the country. DYLAN: Work? Well, work is something else. Sure, we’re always running over old material. We’re always playing, running over old material. New material... and different kinds of material. Testing out this and that. WENNER: What do you see yourself as – a poet, a singer, a rock and roll star, married man... DYLAN: All of those. I see myself as it all. Married man, poet, singer, songwriter, custodian, gatekeeper... all of it. I’ll be it all. I feel “confined” when I have to choose one or the other. Don’t you? WENNER: You’re obligated to do one album a year? DYLAN: Yes. WENNER: Is that all you want to do? DYLAN: No, I’d like to do more. I would do dozens of them if I could be near the studio. I’ve been just lazy, Jann. I’ve been just getting by, so I haven’t really thought too much about putting out anything really new and different. WENNER: You’ve heard the Joan Baez album of all your songs... DYLAN: Yeah, I did... I generally like everything she does. WENNER: Are there any particular artists that you like to see do your songs? DYLAN: Yeah, Elvis Presley. I liked Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley recorded a song of mine. That’s the one recording I treasure the most... it was called “Tomorrow Is A Long Time.” I wrote it but never recorded it. WENNER: Which album is that on? DYLAN: Kismet. WENNER: I’m not familiar with it at all. DYLAN: He did it with just guitar. http://www.jannswenner.com/Archives/Bob_Dylan.aspx

Voldar: Bob Dylan, Hop Farm Festival, Kent, review At 69, Bob Dylan sounds more comfortable performing songs from later in his career. Bob Dylan concerts should come with a public warning: if you attend expecting to hear the young man of Blonde on Blonde or Bringing it All Back Home, his powers undiminished by cigarettes and time, then you will leave disappointed. If, on the other hand, you come to see Dylan at 69, in the middle of a late flourish of creativity, then he will still have the power to transfix you. Since 1997’s Time Out of Mind, he has used themes of middle-age and mortality as inspiration, and he appears now as an ageing troubadour trying to process his new experiences into song. The breathy growl that his voice has become is backed by a supportive blend of rockabilly, rock ’n’ roll, blues and swing that emphasises his love for the American musical tradition. It’s this newer Bob who arrived at the family-friendly Hop Farm Festival for his only UK date of 2010. Though opening with a collection of Sixties tracks (including Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Just Like a Woman and Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright), Dylan refashioned them as if they were taken from a more recent album. Simple Twist of Fate – from 1975’s Blood on the Tracks – now sees his broken voice exposed as the band hushes, providing the most affecting moment of the evening. With a delivery somewhere between crooning and storytelling, he adds a moving sense of world-weariness to its heartbreaking end-of-marriage narrative. Dylan sounds most comfortable performing songs from later in his career, and a quietly anthemic Working Man’s Blues and pacy Thunder on the Mountain show just how creative the past 13 years have been for him. Here we get to listen to the songs as Dylan intended them to sound and, although the lyrics may not be hard-wired into fans’ memories, the passion of his performance made them unlikely highlights of the evening. It was the slower, harmonica-fuelled Ballad of a Thin Man that was the evening’s stand-out moment, however. As he repeated the refrain ''…do you Mr Jones’’ with bitter clarity, it was impossible not to feel that the protest singer from Minnesota still has a hunger to attack the establishment and its hypocrisies. The encore – the almost inevitable Like a Rolling Stone – was the one song where Dylan’s discipline slipped and he strained to sing like his younger self. The song is a crowd-pleaser, and both old and young fans were happy to assist as his voice was left horribly exposed by the rousing melody. It was ironic that the final song was Forever Young – Dylan seems to be at his weakest when he tries to keep up with his youth. Having first seen Dylan in concert in 2003, I’ve witnessed how a lack of intonation and a lazy stage presence can make him a disappointing live performer. Here in the Kentish sun, though, he proved that he’s still more than capable of holding thousands of fans in thrall and – unlike many his age – restlessly refuses to imitate his younger self badly. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/bob-dylan/7872063/Bob-Dylan-Hop-Farm-Festival-Kent-review.html

Voldar: Dylan's back pages - Farm Aid II, with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, July 4, 1986 In 1986, Bob Dylan toured the United States for the first time in five years. It was the joint "True Confessions" tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, a traditional rock band Dylan hooked up with at the original Farm Aid in 1985. The Queens of Rhythm - this time Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, and Louise Bethune - were also there. The appearance help restore Dylan's credibility as a viable live act after the devastatingly bad reviews he received after his misunderstood Live Aid set two months earlier. Farm AId, in fact, was inspired by a comment made by Dylan at Live Aid: I hope that some of the money...maybe they can just take a little bit of it, maybe...one or two million, maybe...and use it, say, to pay the mortgages on some of the farms and, the farmers here, owe to the banks.... The following year, Dylan, with Petty, the Heartbreakers, and the Queens, toured "Down Under", then, after a break, the United States. The set list format was similar to the track listing of the Before The Flood album, with Dylan performing solo, Dylan backed by Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Petty and the Heartbreakers with two of their own sets. For the second Farm Aid - which took place in Manor, Texas - Dylan did not appear live, but via satellite, from Buffalo, New York, with the Heartbreakers et al in tow. It was a double bill with the Grateful Dead. Part of the Dead's set was also broadcast at Farm Aid II, as well as three songs by the Heartbreakers, leading into three with Dylan joining Petty and the gang. Since this was the relatively early days of satellite television transmissions, astute viewers could watch the entire live feed, not just the part that was broadcast on television. Thus it wasn't long before the first two hours of the Dylan/Petty set was in the hands of collectors. The feed ended abruptly after the third - and final - Dylan song was broadcast. It's a fascinating document, seeing a live concert as it happens, not as a heavily edited and sanitized "rockumentary", like Hard To Handle. Some of the more humorous moments occur once Dylan eventually notices a camera over his shoulder. From that point on, Dylan seemed amused and somewhat bothered by it, and periodically looked directly into the camera. Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York, 4 July 1986 1. So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye (Weldon Rogers) 2. Positively 4th Street 3. Clean Cut Kid 4. Emotionally Yours 5. Trust Yourself 6. We Had It All (Donny Fritts-Troy Seals) 7. Masters Of War Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Straight Into Darkness (Tom Petty) Think About Me (Tom Petty) The Waiting (Tom Petty) Breakdown (Tom Petty) 8. To Ramona 9. One Too Many Mornings 10. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 11. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know (Cecil A. Null) 12. Band Of The Hand 13. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky 14. Lonesome Town (Baker Knight) 15. Ballad Of A Thin Man Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Bye Bye Johnny (Chuck Berry) Make It Better (Forget About Me) (Tom Petty) * Spike (Tom Petty) * Refugee (Tom Petty & Mike Campbell) * 16. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 * 17. Seeing The Real You At Last * 18. Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) * 19. I And I 20. Like A Rolling Stone 21. In The Garden — 22. Blowin' In The Wind 23. Uranium Rock (Warren Smith) 24. Knockin' On Heaven's Door Concert #19 of the 1986 True Confessions US Tour. Concert #38 with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. 1986 concert #38. Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums) and with The Queens Of Rhythm: Carolyn Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Louise Bethune (backing vocals). 8-10 Bob Dylan solo (vocal & acoustic guitar). 8, 9, 24 Bob Dylan (harmonica). 11, 22, 24 Bob Dylan and Tom Petty (shared vocals). 16 Howie Epstein (slide guitar), Tom Petty (bass). http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m7d3-Dylans-back-pages--July-4-1986-with-Tom-Petty-and-1987-with-the-Grateful-Dead?cid=examiner-email

Voldar: Bob Dylan adds Oakland, California, concert on August 24, plus Limerick footage "Tangled Up In Blue", July 4 If you've been one of those following Bob Dylan's late summer U.S. tour dates, you probably noticed a gap between a Nevada gig on Sunday, August 22 and the one in Oregon the following Friday. Just Like A Woman", Limerick For some unknown reason, Dylan seems to be taking Mondays off, so it seemed that additional dates on the 24th and 25th would be announced shortly. Well, Bob Dylan's official website had just posted a new show: August 24: Fox Theater, Oakland, CA On sale: 7/25 10:00am Pre-sale: 7/19 10:00am Although I have no inside information, it looks likely that another show will be added the following night. Neil Young is scheduled to play there for three nights, so it's not out of the question that Dylan might add a second show at this small venue. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner~y2010m7d9-Bob-Dylan-adds-Oakland-California-concert-on-August-24-plus-Limerick-footage

Voldar: Bob Dylan, Gorillaz, Dizzee Rascal, Green Day and more are to join Rhythms Del Mundo on a new album in aid of the Artists Project Earth (APE) charity. Featuring Rhythms Del Mundo afro-cuban take on each of the source songs, the guests contribute vocals with the album, titled 'Revival', featuring an impressive role call of songs and guests vocalists. The album is in aid of the Artists Project Earth (APE), a UK NGO focusing on disaster relief and climate change awareness. Talking about his involvement, Dizzee Rascal says, "I feel very proud to be given the opportunity to make such a contribution to APE and am glad to be involved in such a huge project that will give much needed help and hope to those suffering in Haiti, Chile and Tibet." While Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay adds, “Just because the plight of Haiti is no longer in the media focus, it doesn’t mean to say that everything has been sorted out. People still need our help.” APE Founder Kenny Young said, “…as the media lens has focused elsewhere, their needs have not diminished. People in Haiti and now Chile and the Tibetan Plateau are still struggling to survive and rebuild their lives. They still need our help.” Full Track Listing: Rhythms del Mundo feat. Wyclef Jean – Stayin’ Alive Rhythms del Mundo feat. Groove Armada – Superstylin’ Rhythms del Mundo feat. Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. Rhythms del Mundo feat. Dizzee Rascal – Holiday Rhythms del Mundo feat. Green Day - I Fought The Law Rhythms del Mundo feat. Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain´s A Gonna Fall Rhythms del Mundo feat. Bebe - Smells Like Teen Spirit Rhythms del Mundo feat. Afrique - Yele Daya (Football Crazy) Rhythms del Mundo feat. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark Of The Matinee Rhythms del Mundo feat. KT Tunstall - Somebody To Love Rhythms del Mundo feat. Coldplay & Lele - Clocks/Relojes Rhythms del Mundo feat. Shanade - Chain Of Fools Rhythms del Mundo feat. Augusto Enriquez - Under The Boardwalk Rhythms del Mundo feat. Zucchero - Baila http://www.clashmusic.com/news/gorillaz-dylan-join-rhythms-del-mundo

Voldar: 'Isis' updated information on new Bob Dylan 'Bootleg Series', mono box set Isis magazine has posted updated information on two upcoming Bob Dylan archival releases. In October, Sony Legacy be releasing The Bootleg Series Vol. 9, and a box set of the first eight Bob Dylan albums in mono. The official announcement is expected to be made next month. The Bootleg Series will be “a set of non-live recordings, well-known to collectors”. It is based on the "Witmark Demos", but is expected to include some "Leeds Demos" as well. A total of 47 tracks are expected to be included. The first Bob Dylan eight albums. from Bob Dylan to John Wesley Harding, were originally available in mono. They have never officially been available on compact disc before. Throughout most of the 1960s, more attention had been paid to monaural mixes than stereo. However, but the end of the decade, mono was phased out in favor of stereo. The new CDs were reportedly newly mastered, with "using first issue copies of the mono LPs for reference". Here's a list of Witmark and Leeds demos, courtesy of Olof: Leeds Music Demos New York City, New York February 1962 1. Hard Times In New York Town 2. Poor Boy Blues 3. Ballad For A Friend 4. Rambling, Gambling Willie 5. Man On The Street 6. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 7. Standing On The Highway Witmark & Sons Demos New York City, New York December 1962 1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 2. Tomorrow Is A Long Time 3.The Death Of Emmett Till 4.Let Me Die In My Footsteps 5. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 6.Quit Your Low Down Ways 7.Baby, I'm In The Mood For You Witmark Studio New York City, New York Winter 1963 1. Bound To Lose, Bound To Win 2. All Over You 3. I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day 4. Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues Witmark Studio New York City, New York March 1963 1. Long Time Gone 2. Masters Of War 3. Farewell 4. Oxford Town 5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 6. Walkin' Down The Line Witmark Studio New York City, New York April 1963 1. I Shall Be Free 2.Bob Dylan's Blues 3.Bob Dylan's Dream 4. Boots Of Spanish Leather Witmark Studio New York City, New York May 1963 1. Girl From The North Country 2.Seven Curses 3.Hero Blues Witmark Studio New York City, New York August 1963 1. Whatcha Gonna Do 2. Gypsy Lou 3. Ain't Gonna Grieve 4.John Brown 5.Only A Hobo 6.When The Ship Comes In (Dylan, Piano) Witmark Studio New York City, New York October 1963 1. The Times They Are A-Changin' Witmark Studio New York City, New York December 1963 1. Paths Of Victory Witmark Studio, New York City, New York January 1964 1. Guess I'm Doing Fine 2.Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt) Unidentified Recording Studio New York City, New York Mid to late June 1964 1. Mr. Tambourine Man 2.Mama, You Been On My Mind 3. I'll Keep It With Mine http://www.bobdylanisis.com/Dylan%20Digest.htm

Voldar: Mellencamp Hits the Road with Dylan, Plans Fall Tour Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp kicked off their summer tour in Lincoln, Nebraska, yesterday, delivering two sets of spirited Americana nicely suited to Haymarket Park and its Midwestern surroundings. Mellencamp last played the venue as part of a Farm Aid benefit "100 years ago," he joked to the crowd. (The concert, for the record, was actually in 1987.) While his set favored crowd favorites and enduring deep cuts like "Pink Houses" and "Paper In Fire," Mellencamp also brought the crowd into the here-and-now, unveiling songs from his new T Bone Burnett-produced disc No Better Than This. One, "Save Some Time to Dream," was a gorgeously spare, Neil Young-ish country tune featuring tight rhythmic backup from his six-piece band. Meanwhile, Mellencamp reinvigorated classic tunes like "Cherry Bomb," which he freshened with an off-the-cuff a capella arrangement. Dylan, sporting his trademark black suit and white cowboy hat, had nothing new to play. But he delivered an energetic set of classics, some with striking new arrangements. Soaring pedal steel guitar lent "Lay Lady Lay" a newfound vulnerability, "Just Like a Woman," became soft and reflective, and "Cold Irons Bound" sounded bold and jammy. The latter two showcased Dylan’s inimitable balance of the meditative and aggressive. Dylan and Mellencamp's tour wraps in September, but Mellencamp will continue on this fall with sixteen Midwestern dates in support of No Better Than This. Unlike his immaculately produced '80s albums, Mellencamp wrote this record quickly, on acoustic guitar, and recorded it in mono on a 55-year-old Ampex tape recorder. "I looked at T Bone and I said, 'What the fuck were we doing in the '80s?'" Mellencamp told RS. "I made a record once that took almost a year. I spent millions of dollars dicking around with songs, and in the long run it paid off because it sold millions of copies. But I go back and I listen to the record today, and it was...more of a craftsman thing." No Better is Mellencamp’s latest rootsy record in a series that began with 2003's blues and folk covers disc Trouble No More.To get the proper vibe, Mellencamp and Burnett cut the new disc in the legendary Sun Studios, San Antonio; Texas' Gunter Hotel (where Robert Johnson recorded tracks like "Terraplane Blues"); and the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia. The latter location — the oldest black church in America and a one-time stop on the Underground Railroad — struck a spiritual chord with Mellencamp and his wife Elaine, who decided to be baptized under the altar where Mellencamp had been recording. The album may be stripped down, but Mellencamp plans an ambitious fall tour. There will be three different sections: a 30-minute "Sun Studio" set, a 30-minute acoustic set, and an hour of plugged-in tunes. And each show will start with a screening of Kurt Markus' It's About You, which chronicles the making of the record. "On those early tours [in the ‘50s], you went to see Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, and the show started with a movie called The Girl Can't Help It," said Mellencamp, explaining his inspiration for showing the documentary. "It's not an original idea, but it's an idea that hasn't been done in decades." The setlist for Mellencamp and Dylan's show — plus dates for Mellencamp's upcoming trek — are below. John Mellencamp's Setlist Pink Houses Paper in Fire No Better Than This Check It Out Save Some Time to Dream Cherry Bomb (Acapella) Don’t Need This Body Small Town Home on the Range Rain on the Scarecrow The West End Troubled Land If I Die Sudden Crumblin’ Down Authority Song Bob Dylan's setlist Watching The River Flow Lay Lady Lay Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine) Stuck Inside of Mobile with The Memphis Blues Again Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Just Like A Woman Cold Irons Bound Workingman Blues #2 Highway 61 Revisited Tryin’ to get to Heaven Thunder on The Mountain Ballad of a Thin Man Like A Rolling Stone All Along The Watchtower http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/189908

Voldar: Fans flock to see Bob Dylan at the Buffalo Chip STURGIS — Just like a rolling stone, Bob Dylan rolled through the Black Hills Tuesday and gave his fans at Buffalo Chip Campground a chance to see the endless tour the performer has been on for years. “I’ve seen him about 25 times,” Jan Medgaarden of Austin, Minn., said. Tuesday’s concert had more meaning for Medgaarden and her husband, Gary. They celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary Tuesday. They were married during the 1990 Sturgis motorcycle rally. “We weren’t going to stay, but since Bob was here just to play for our anniversary, we had to,” Medgaarden said. She couldn’t nail down her favorite Dylan song but said “The Times They Are A-Changin” would be a good opener. “It seems to work for every generation,” Medgaarden said. Dylan and his gray-suited band chose to start with “Rainy Day Women #24 and #35” followed by “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” While Medgaarden has seen Dylan numerous times, fans such as Sharon Blane have waited much longer. The Stirling, Scotland, resident first saw Dylan in Sheffield, England, with Joan Baez in 1964. She caught Dylan again in 2000 in Stirling. “I’m just traveling around with my brother,” Blane said. “It’s a complete coincidence that we are both here at the same time.” Blane, and many others in the crowd, stood out for not being bikers. Medgaarden fit in with her Dylan “Love and Theft” tour T-shirt. Before the show, rumors circulated that John Mellencamp would play a song with Dylan. The two are sharing a tour and will be in Billings, Mont., next. Buffalo Chip chief executive officer Rod Woodruff confirmed at a Tuesday afternoon press conference that Mellencamp was at the Buffalo Chip Campground. While there were fans waiting for decades to see Dylan, not everyone came to the campground for his show. “We’ve been in this spot since 4 this afternoon, waiting for Kid Rock’s 10 o’clock show,” Amy Haselhorst of Vermillion said. Haselhorst said that she came to like Kid Rock after his recent country music crossover success. “Dylan’s just a bonus,” she said. The 1960s icon, dressed in a black suit with a red stripe on the pants, had some people crying and some, as much as they love him, having a hoot at the outfit. “He looks a bit like an Italian ice cream salesman, doesn’t he?” Blane said. That didn’t stop her from getting as close to the stage as she could. If she didn’t, the packed audience would have made it difficult for her to go anywhere else. But, as one voice yelled, there was nowhere else to be. http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/sturgisrallydaily/article_6af440c0-a505-11df-928e-001cc4c03286.html

Voldar: Legends Dylan, Mellencamp perform at Ontario arena Timeless singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will make a tour stop at the Citizens Business Bank Arena with hitmaker John Mellencamp on Thursday. Dylan, who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, is known for influential compositions like "Highway 61 Revisited," "Like A Rolling Stone," "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin."' In an interview, he was asked why he doesn't play the same songs in the same way, like many other musicians of his generation. "I couldn't if I tried," Dylan said. "Those guys you are talking about all had conspicuous hits. They started out anti-establishment and now they are in charge of the world. Celebratory songs. Music for the grand dinner party. Mainstream stuff that played into the culture on a pervasive level. "My stuff is different from those guys. It's more desperate. (Roger) Daltrey, (Pete) Townshend, (Paul) McCartney, the Beach Boys, Elton (John), Billy Joel. They made perfect records, so they have to play them perfectly ... exactly the way people remember them. "My records were never perfect. So there is no point in trying to duplicate them. Anyway, I'm no mainstream artist." Fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Mellencamp, who is known for hits like "Pink Houses," "Jack & Diane" "Hurts So Good" and "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A," also will perform. In a 2007 interview, he was asked if he has any fears. "Oh, I have millions of them," Mellencamp said. "I'm terrified of germs - I wash my hands constantly. But the most crippling is panic disorder. There's no rhyme or reason to it - I'll be up onstage and it'll just hit me, with no warning. That's why I don't play so much anymore. I've had to go to the hospital." http://www.sgvtribune.com/living/ci_15781331

Voldar: Bob Dylan's tour ending set at Bumbershoot, plus tally of all songs performed Bob Dylan ended his summer tour last evening at Bumbershoot 2010. Here's the set list, courtesy of Bob Links: Seattle, Washington: Bumbershoot 2010 Seattle Center: September 4, 2010 1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Bob on keyboard then guitar) 2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (Bob on guitar) 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Bob on guitar) 4. Just Like A Woman (Bob on keyboard) 5. Rollin' And Tumblin' (Bob on keyboard, Donnie on electric mandolin) 6. Desolation Row (Bob on keyboard) 7. Cold Irons Bound (Bob center stage with harp) 8. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob center stage with harp) 9. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on keyboard) 10. Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob on guitar) 11. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on keyboard) 12. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Bob center stage with harp) (encore) 13. Jolene (Bob on keyboard) 14. Like A Rolling Stone (Bob on keyboard) The Desolation Row Information Service has been keeping tabs on what songs Bob Dylan has been performing on his summer tour: Bob has performed 23 concerts and sung/played 343 songs of which 58 have been different. The figures in parentheses show how many times Bob has performed a particular song on this tour; if no figures are given then the song has only been played once. Highway 61 Revisited (23) Thunder On The Mountain (23) Ballad Of A Thin Man (23) Like A Rolling Stone (23) Just Like A Woman (21) Rollin' And Tumblin' (16) Jolene (15) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (14) Workingman's Blues #2 (11) Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (11) Cold Irons Bound (11) All Along The Watchtower (10) Rainy Day Women No’s 12 & 35 (10) High Water (For Charley Patton) (8) Tangled Up In Blue (8) Honest With Me (7) Simple Twist Of Fate (7) Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (5) Spirit On The Water (5) Tryin' To Get To Heaven (5) Lay, Lady, Lay (5) I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (5) Forgetful Heart (5) Masters of War (4) I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (4) Love Sick (4) Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (4) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (4) Ballad Of Hollis Brown (3) The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (3) It's All Over, Baby Blue (3) Beyond Here Lies Nothin' (3) This Wheel's On Fire (3) The Levee's Gonna Break (3) To Ramona (3) Watching The River Flow (2) Love Minus Zero/No Limit (2) Shelter from the Storm (2) When The Deal Goes Down (2) Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (2) Blind Willie McTell (2) Things Have Changed (2) Desolation Row (2) Can't Wait Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum My Wife's Home Town Cry A While I Feel A Change Comin' On Girl Of The North Country Under The Red Sky Nettie Moore Every Grain Of Sand Not Dark Yet Visions of Johanna Man In The Long Black Coat My Wife's Home Town Ain't Talkin’ Positively 4th Street (Note: "Happy Birthday" was not included. ) http://www.examiner.com/bob-dylan-in-national/bob-dylan-s-tour-ending-set-at-bumbershoot-plus-tally-of-all-songs-performed

Voldar: Bob Dylan to play five shows in Florida during October, tickets go on sale during Rosh Hashanah Bob Dylan's official website has announced five concert dates in Florida, starting October 6. The first four shows are at different universities, while the fifth is at the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. It is unclear if these dates are being added because of the recent environmental problems in and around the Gulf Coast. Neil Young recently added dates in a few Gulf States, with reduced ticket prices. Additional shows are expected to be added to this leg of Dylan's tour. As it stands now, tickets for four of the shows go on sale 10 a.m. on September 10. Interestingly, this falls on the second day of the Jewish High Holy Day of Rosh Hashanah. The second day is not traditionally followed by Reform Jews in the United States. I believe the last time something like this was scheduled, the on sale dates were changed before they went on sale. The pre-sales for these four gigs start the morning of September 8. Rosh Hashanah starts at sundown that evening. The October 8 concert in Gainesville will not have a pre sale. Students will be able to purchase tickets in advance on September 20. The general public will be able to buy them the next morning. Bob Dylan's current tour ends on September 4 before the start of the Jewish High Holy Days. He is not expected to perform on either Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kipper (staring at sundown on September 17). Here's the tour information: OCT 6 Fort Lauderdale, FL Nova Southeastern University -- The Arena at Don Taft University Center 8:00pm On sale 9/10 10:00am Pre sale 9/08 10:00am OCT 7 Tampa, FL University of South Florida -- Sun Dome 8:00pm On sale 9/10 10:00am Pre sale 9/08 10:00am OCT 8 Gainesville, FL University of Florida -- Stephen C. O'Connell Center 8:00pm No pre-sale. Student sale on 9/20 On sale 9/21 10:00am OCT 10 Orlando, FL University of Central Florida -- UCF Arena 8:00pm On sale 9/10 10:00am Pre sale 9/08 10:00am OCT 11 Tallahassee, FL Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center 7:30pm On sale 9/10 10:00am Pre sale 9/08 10:00am More information when we get it . . . . (Thanks to Seth Rogovoy) http://www.examiner.com/bob-dylan-in-national/bob-dylan-to-play-five-shows-florida-during-october-tickets-go-on-sale-during-rosh-hashanah

Voldar: Вскоре будут опубликованы одни из самых ранних записей Bob Dylan. 19 октября планируется начать продажу сорока семи оригиналов записей певца Bob Dylan, которые он сделал с 1962 года по 1964 год, в комплект также будет включен бутлег, который состоит из восьми альбомов с 1962 по 1967 года. Эта информация размещена на официальном сайте певца. Релиз бутлега исполнителя готовит Columbia Records. Ранние композиции Bob Dylan были обработаны. Бутлег называется «The Bootleg Series Volume 9-The Witmark Demos». Несмотря на обработку для всех песен был сохранен формат-моно, записи сохранят тот вид, в котором они предполагались самим исполнителем. Релиз будет представлен на CD-дисках и на виниловых пластинках. Кроме этого на двух дисках выйдут демо-версии записей Bob Dylan. Большинство из них были выполнены исключительно под аккомпанемент гитары, губной гармошки и редко под звуки фортепиано. Прослушивая эти песни, можно отследить творческий рост певца как автора и исполнителя от его ранних песен «Ramblin Gamblin Willie» и «Man On The Street» до социальной тематики «The Times They Are A Changin», «Blowin 'In The Wind» и баллады «Mr. Tambourine Man». Любопытно, что все вошедшие в сборник песни, Dylan написал в возрасте от 21 до 23 лет. Пятнадцать из 47 песен ни разу ранее не издавались на физических носителях. К таким песням относятся «The Death Of Emmett Till», «Long Ago, Far Away», «Ballad For A Friend», и «Guess I'm Doing Fine». Выпуск будет сопровождаться большим буклетом, в состав которого войдут редкие фотографии певца и заметки Colin Escott. http://i-muz.ru/page/vskore-budut-opublikovany-odni-iz-samyh-rannih-zapisej-bob-dylan004663

Voldar: Очередная книга о Бобе. Book review: 'Bob Dylan in America' by Sean Wilentz A distinguished historian excels in teasing out the origins of the singer-songwriter's artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, and the multiple sources of his art. Every modern American adolescence has its own distinctive soundtrack and, if you grew up in the 1960s, Bob Dylan's voice and music almost surely echo in your ear. "Bob Dylan in America," a new biography of the singer-songwriter by distinguished cultural, political historian Sean Wilentz, gives an enjoyably thorough, convincing explanation why Dylan's new music has gone on finding new audiences ever since he burst upon the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, fresh from the iron range of northern Minnesota and ferociously ambitious for his art. It's an extraordinary, resonant intersection of subject and biographer: Dylan, after all, is the only American popular singer ever to be awarded a special Pulitzer citation in the arts — an honor he shares with the popular composers and musicians Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, Scott Joplin and Duke Ellington, though the latter three received theirs posthumously. Wilentz is the only American historian ever to win both a Bancroft Prize — for "The Rise of American Democracy" — and a Grammy nomination for the 50-plus pages of liner notes he did for a DVD release of Dylan's 1964 concert at Philharmonic Hall. He's also been acquainted with Dylan since he was a small boy in and out of the Greenwich Village bookstore his family owned and which the singer frequented. Dylan met Allen Ginsberg in the apartment above the shop. More recently, Wilentz, now a professor at Princeton, has been the official historian of Dylan's website. (Once you've gotten your head around the notion that Dylan has a website, the fact that it has its own historian seems somehow unexceptional.) Dylan, of course, has been the subject of other biographies and has published the first book in what he intends as a multi-volume autobiography. Wilentz's book stands apart from these in the lucidity of its prose, the rigor of its research and convincing originality of the place he assigns his subject in the context of American cultural history. Fans looking for a recording-by-recording, concert-by-concert account of the singer and songwriter's career would do better looking elsewhere, though there's plenty of truly fine analysis of the most significant songs and recordings. Where Wilentz excels is in teasing out the origins of Dylan's artistic impulses, the context in which they arose and flowered, the multiple sources of his art. Thus, there's a fascinating discussion of Aaron Copland and the musical component of the left-wing popular front between the wars, as well as the influence of Bertolt Brecht's dramatic theories on the environment in which Dylan first formulated his notions about performance. If that begins to sound a bit drearily scholarly for the music's fans, there's also a detailed reconstruction of Dylan's first revolutionary — and myth-encrusted — Nashville sessions that rings absolutely true. (Who knew that Highway 61, which Dylan's fans regularly revisit along with their artist, runs from Hibbing, Minn., where he grew up, to New Orleans, where he found important musical roots?) Wilentz explores the particular influences — musical and lyrical — that Dylan has sought out for himself and the self-consciously serious way in which he has pursued that passionate exploration. It began not just in Manhattan's cafes and bars, but in the New York Public Library, where the college dropout's self-education went deep into original sources. "For a professional historian," Wilentz writes, "it was mildly thrilling to learn that Dylan discovered the cuneiforms of his art in the microfilm room." What emerged from that process was a new language of lyrical social criticism that was totally contemporary while rooted in the historical tumult of mid-19th century America. As Dylan would say, "Back there, America was put on the cross, died and was resurrected. There was nothing synthetic about it. The godawful truth of that would be the all-encompassing template behind everything that I would write." Wilentz compares his subject to the seminal bluesman Blind Willie McTell, one of whose masterpieces is the now classic "The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues," parts of which Dylan appropriated. McTell, Wilentz writes, "was as Dylan would later be, a musical modernist with strong roots in traditional forms…. McTell was beholden to no particular performance or composing style … and he excelled in numerous genres, including amalgamated genres of his own devising." As the author explains, McTell, like many other celebrated "bluesmen" of his generation, belonged to a tradition of independent African American "minstrelsy" that stretches back to Reconstruction and whose practitioners mastered everything from gospel to Tin Pan Alley hits. They accepted the appellation "bluesmen" to distinguish themselves from black artists who played jazz but thought of themselves more broadly as "songsters." That's also a description sufficiently capacious to describe the dazzling variety of Dylan's output. As the author once told an interviewer, "Dylan is a master of the American ballad. Ballads are maybe the major music form in which Americans describe their land and each other." Wilentz's unselfconscious ability to discuss the ultra-politically conscious Copland and the influential McTell, who would exert such a pull on Dylan that he became the subject of a celebrated song, also says something about the breadth of his cultural erudition. Here is scholarship that successfully slips the bonds of specialty and pretension. At one point, the author compares Dylan's compositional method, which often involves quotation, appropriation and juxtaposition from a wide variety of musical, textual and even cinematic sources, to a more familiar form of assemblage. "Although reminiscent of the modernists' collages," Wilentz writes, "Dylan's method aimed not simply at allusion but at something very different, essential to his recent work — more emphatic, at times risky dissolution of distinctions between past and present, as well as between high and low, scholarly and popular, exotic and familiar, moving between and among them as if it required no effort." That's not a bad description of Wilentz's own method as a biographer and cultural historian, and his daring makes "Bob Dylan in America" a pleasure to read. timothy.rutten@latimes.com http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-rutten-20100908,0,5960419.story

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