Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Happy 75th Birthday, Bob Dylan!

   True, he was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, and took his stage name from Dylan Thomas. His stature has been beyond iconic for decades now, and he has a new release available. Below is a link to his homepage, and you can red all about it, and so much more, there.


   In high school some of us debated with our teachers about how Dylan was a poet. A sympathetic response was, "I know you want him to be, Art, but....". While not all of his lyrics are poetry, quite a few are. On my Collections I have his "Gates of Eden", for example.

   Dylan was not afraid to break new artistic ground, even if people scorned him for going electric and calling him a Judas. I find it admirable that he goes into uncharted waters. When in Nashville, we looked down the street from Studio B to the building where he recorded Blonde on Blonde. Neither the first nor the last folkie/rocker/whatever to be influenced by and influence Nashville, he was perhaps the most famous.

   His Chronicles, a partial autobiography, also revealed another side (pardon the pun) of Bob Dylan. He mentioned that he would have liked to have attended West Point.   General Dylan? That's heavy!

http://bobdylan.com/

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