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About Bob Dylan

  • Born: May 24, 1941
  • Occupation: Musician
    • Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. we would hear slim harpo or lightnin' slim and gospel groups, the dixie hummingbirds, the five blind boys of alabama. i was so far north, i didn't even know where alabama was.
    Country Boys Rocks
    Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.
    Wheels Steps Sometimes
    We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. actors will say, "my character this, and my character that." like beating a dead horse. who cares about the character? just get up and act. you don't have to explain it to me.
    Horse Character Who Cares
    I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not chicago blues, and modern pop.
    Country Thinking Rocks
    Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. but you do need them. it's just like anything. you have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. one alone doesn't work. there's no point to going over three. but you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. it's a bit like alchemy.
    People Singing Together
    Early on, before rock 'n' roll, i listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. we had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. the radio/record player played 78rpm records. when we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. it was bill monroe, or maybe it was the stanley brothers. i'd never heard anything like that before. ever. and it moved me away from all the conventional music that i was hearing.
    Brother Player Rocks
    In the meantime [1965-67], [bob] dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "visions of johanna," "just like a woman," and "sad-eyed lady of the lowlands."
    Song Best Love Writing
    The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and bob dylan's emotional album [ blood on the tracks] resonated with the times. there would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.
    Emotional Swings Blood
    Bob dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, chronicles: volume one, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.
    Bob Good Work Volume
    I don't think there's enough guns.
    Gun Thinking Enough
    [bob] dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. like "simple twist of fate".
    Song Heart Fate
    Just in time for bob dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for woodstock, and turn his back on fame.
    Cities Attention Bob
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