{"id":2322,"date":"2021-11-27T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:39:50","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Dylan on Rick Nelson and James Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan, Chronicles<\/em>, Volume One (Simon and Shuster, 2004), p. 13:<\/span>
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He was different from  the rest of the teen idols, had a great guitarist who played like a cross    between a honky-tonk  hero and a barn-dance fiddler. Nelson had never been a bold innovator like the early singers who sang like they were navigating burning ships. He didn't sing desperately, do a lot of damage, and you'd never mistake him for a shaman. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nosiree, Bob, no shaman was he. There is more interesting material on Nelson in the vicinity of this excerpt. Dylan discusses Ricky Nelson in connection with his 1961 hit, Travelin' Man<\/a>. But the great guitar work of James Burton to which Dylan alludes was much more in evidence in Hello Mary Lou<\/a>. The Dylan Chronicles look like they will hold the interest of this old 60's Dylan fanatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a better taste of James Burton and his Fender Telecaster with Elvis Presley.  And here<\/a> he is with the Big O dueling with Springsteen.  Here<\/a> he jams with Nelson's sons.  Orbison<\/a> on Nelson.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been over thirty years now since Nelson died in a plane crash<\/a> while touring. The plane, purchased from Jerry Lee Lewis, went down on New Year's Eve 1985. That travelin' man died with his boots on — as I suspect he would have wanted to. In an interview in 1977 he said that he could not see himself growing old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful what you wish for.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One (Simon and Shuster, 2004), p. 13: He was different from  the rest of the teen idols, had a great guitarist who played like a cross    between a honky-tonk  hero and a barn-dance fiddler. Nelson had never been a bold innovator like the early singers who sang like they were navigating burning … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Dylan on Rick Nelson and James Burton”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","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=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}