This is a collection of three books by Paul Williams - 1960-63, 74-86, and 86 and beyond (takes you up as far as ‘Love and Theft). To make it easier, I'm grouping these three books together. Nelson, Elizabeth (October 31, 2022). "Bob Dylan takes us on a wide-ranging tour of songs he admires". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 3, 2022. The nature of memory is unreliable and I think what Dylan is doing here is relaying impressions, scenes, encounters, and places. It’s about the music he was listening to at that time, the occasional aside to people in his life. One of my favourite parts is when he talks about rifling through his friends library, taking the titles that interested him most - he’s always been a bit of a magpie.

He deserved the Nobel Prize. He deserved the highest rank of Rolling Stone's greatest songwriters of all time. He deserved all the accolades he earned and perhaps even burned. He deserved his name to be carved in history.Throughout the archive, we see Bob writing on whatever is at hand, whether it’s a matchbook cover, hotel notepads, a bank deposit slip, lots of small notebooks,” says Davidson. For another example take a line from Visions of Johanna; “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face”. Literally that doesn’t mean anything but the feeling it conjures up in the listener is crystal clear. It’s that sensation that shoots up your spine as you look at a lovers face and lose yourself in every detail, trying to find the particular magic, the ghost of electricity, that draws you to them. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (vocals completely buried and barely audible) (rehearsal: 1976-04-12: Bellevue Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, FL, USA) He said that because of the likeness, The Beatles might end up suing him. Dylan responded by claiming it was already his song, so a lawsuit was out of the question. Up against these wildly inventive outbursts, the smooth contours of a Bing Crosby or Perry Como song seem to have emerged out of a different America, a different cultural and psychological mindset: restrained, elegant, quietly persuasive. Under Dylan’s democratic gaze, though, they assume an equal importance. “When he stood and sang,” he writes of Como, “he owned the song and he shared it and we believed every single word. What more could you want from an artist?”

When you’re first getting into the great man, you’ll hopefully meet other bobcats who share your passion. One of my fellow travellers was a top bloke by the name of Johnny Carragher, who gifted me this book on one of those nights we were waxing lyrical about Bob and surrounded by vinyl until the wee hours. Sara (Vocals Muffled) (studio: 1976-01-23: "The Night of the Hurricane 2" studio instrument rental, LA, CA, USA) On that October morning, however, the preposterous became reality.* For the first time in the 115-year history of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the award was given to someone known primarily as a songwriter rather than as a novelist, poet, dramatist, or writer of short stories. (Last year's recipient, Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, is known for her lengthy works of oral history, another first for the Swedish Academy) What's more, Dylan became the first American in more than two decades to receive the Nobel--a gap of time that many attribute to the Swedish Academy's thinly disguised disinterest in American literature. In 2008, Horace Engdahl, then the Academy's secretary, dismissed contemporary American literature and suggested that no living author from the United States was worthy of recognition. Speaking to the Associated Press, Engdahl stated, "There is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can't get away from the fact that Europe still is the centre of the literary world...not the United States. The U.S. is too isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature....That ignorance is restraining." Local Event: Bob Dylan's Philosophy of Modern Song". Upper East Side, NY Patch. July 10, 2023 . Retrieved July 18, 2023.

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Perhaps my favorite example of the degree to which so-called experts failed at predicting a Dylan win comes in an article by Alex Shephard of the New Republic. Posted just days before the Swedish Academy's announcement, Shephard goes out of his way to remind his readers that "Bob Dylan 100 percent is not going to win. Stop saying Bob Dylan should win the Nobel Prize." One week later, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize.

Just Like a Woman (song cuts in or out, missing the beginning or end) (studio: 1976-01-23: "The Night of the Hurricane 2" studio instrument rental, LA, CA, USA)

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Audiophile Magazine referred to Dylan's narration as "raspy and compelling" and wrote of the all-star cast: "Almost as one voice, the narrators create a flow of energy that adds immeasurably to the impact of Dylan’s poetic writing". [29] Autograph controversy [ edit ] Firstpublished in 1972, this has been updated a number of times. It's a deep dive into Dylans influences and use of language. I’ve alreadymentioned the short section on nursery rhymes in the enclyopedia above - it’s also here, as well as Dylans use ofbiblical allusions, his use of blues and folk forms and poetry and literary references. The Philosophy of Modern Song is a book by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, published on November 1, 2022, by Simon & Schuster. The book contains Dylan's commentary on 66 songs by other artists. [1] [2] It is the first book Dylan has published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. [3] Summary [ edit ] Romance in Durango (song cuts in or out, missing the beginning or end) (studio: 1976-01-23: "The Night of the Hurricane 2" studio instrument rental, LA, CA, USA) The book features hundreds of photographs and illustrations, licensed from many different sources, the overall design of which is credited to Coco Shinomiya (who also designed several of Dylan's 21st century albums). When asked to discuss the "significance" of the images by Jeff Slate, Dylan responded, "They’re running mates to the text, involved in the same way, share the same outcome. They portray ideas and associations that you might not notice otherwise, visual interaction". [25] Anne Margaret Daniel wrote that the illustrations "deserve both mention and praise. They are copious, and they comment on, enrich and complicate every song". Daniel cites a film still of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? used to illustrate the divorce song "Cheaper to Keep Her" as "the perfect gimme" while noting that her favorites are the images of a flat sea, a whale hunt gone wrong and a still of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on the beach in From Here to Eternity, which more obliquely comment on Bobby Darin's " Beyond the Sea". [26] Audiobook [ edit ]