{"id":6418,"date":"2016-05-24T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-turns-75-today\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:15:30","slug":"bob-dylan-turns-75-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-turns-75-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Dark Yet: Bob Dylan Turns 75 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bob-Dylan-005\"<\/a>25 things you might want to know know about Dylan.  Excellent<\/a>, except for the introductory claim that he is  "rock's greatest songwriter."  A  better description is "America's greatest writer of popular songs." Bar none.  We can discuss the criteria later, and consider counterexamples.  Maybe this Saturday night.    His earliest four or five albums are not in the rock genre.  I'll permit quibbling about #5, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), but Bob Dylan<\/em> (1962), The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan<\/em> (1963) , The Time's They Are A'Changin'<\/em> (1964), and Another Side of Bob Dylan<\/em> (1964) are better classified as folk, not that they sit all that comfortably in this niche.<\/span><\/p>\n

These early albums are studded with lasting contributions to Americana.    This is music with meaning that speaks to the mind and the heart.  No Rat Pack crooner Las Vegas lounge lizard stuff here.Two lesser-known compositions both from The Times They Are a'Changin':<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Ballad of Hollis Brown<\/a>   Performed by Stephen Stills.<\/span><\/p>\n

North Country Blues<\/a>.  Written from the point of view of a woman and so appropriately sung by the angel-throated Joan Baez.<\/span><\/p>\n

D. A. Pennebaker on<\/a> the making of Don't Look Back<\/em>.  I saw it in '67 when it first came out.  I just had to see it, just as I had to have all of Dylan's albums, all of his sheet music, and every article and book about him. I was a Dylan fanatic.  No longer a fanatic, I remain a fan.<\/span><\/p>\n

May he die with his boots on.  It ain't dark yet<\/a>, but it's gettin' there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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25 things you might want to know know about Dylan.  Excellent, except for the introductory claim that he is  "rock's greatest songwriter."  A  better description is "America's greatest writer of popular songs." Bar none.  We can discuss the criteria later, and consider counterexamples.  Maybe this Saturday night.    His earliest four or five albums are … Continue reading “Not Dark Yet: Bob Dylan Turns 75 Today”<\/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":[196,92,167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-autobiographical","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","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=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}