From Variety<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n Of the dozens or even hundreds of singers and songwriters that Bob Dylan<\/a> extols in his new book, \u201cThe Philosophy of Modern Song,\u201d there is one that seems to stand out even more than the others, so effusive is Dylan\u2019s praise. This performer, he writes, is \u201cdownright incredible\u201d and \u201clived in every moment of every song he sang\u2026 His performance is just downright incredible. There is nothing small you can say about it\u2026 When he stood and sang, he owned the song and he shared it and we believed every single word. What more could you want from an artist?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The artist in question: Perry Como, naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As a Dylan fan from the early '60s, I can tell you that one can never be sure when Bob is serious and when he is putting us on.<\/span><\/p>\n Will I buy this book? Is the sky blue? I was about to write, "Is the Pope Catholic?" But that doesn't work anymore, with Bergoglio the Benighted at the helm of a sinking ship. <\/span><\/p>\n Addendum<\/strong> (1\/24)<\/span><\/p>\n 'Termitic' and 'benighted' are adjectives I have repeatedly applied to 'Pope' Francis. No doubt some of you find that offensive. I intend no disrespect for the office, but I do have serious moral and intellectual reservations about its current occupant. And you should too. See this<\/a> Telegraph<\/em> piece which begins:<\/span><\/p>\n Gay \u201cclubs\u201d operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published book scathing of Pope Francis\u2019s<\/a> progressive agenda. <\/span><\/p>\n In a blistering attack on the state of the Catholic Church under his successor\u2019s papacy<\/a>, Benedict, who died on Dec 31<\/a> at the age of 95, said that the vocational training of the next generation of priests is on the verge of \u201ccollapse\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n He claimed that some bishops allow trainee priests to watch pornographic films as an outlet for their sexual urges.<\/span><\/p>\n Benedict gave instructions that the book, What Christianity Is<\/em>, should be published after his death.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Variety: Of the dozens or even hundreds of singers and songwriters that Bob Dylan extols in his new book, \u201cThe Philosophy of Modern Song,\u201d there is one that seems to stand out even more than the others, so effusive is Dylan\u2019s praise. This performer, he writes, is \u201cdownright incredible\u201d and \u201clived in every moment … Continue reading “Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,18,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-music","category-sixties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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