{"id":7386,"date":"2015-02-08T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/08\/bob-dylans-2015-musiccares-person-of-the-year-speech\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:55:51","slug":"bob-dylans-2015-musiccares-person-of-the-year-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/08\/bob-dylans-2015-musiccares-person-of-the-year-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan’s 2015 MusicCares Person of the Year Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>.  (Link via Frank Beckwith's FB page. Interesting how many conservatives are Dylan fans. Lawrence Auster<\/a> is another.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a fascinating, rich speech by a living repository of musical Americana and without a doubt the most creative interpreter of our musical legacy, the "bard of our generation" as Auster puts it.   One is moved by the gratitude and generosity Dylan displays  toward the many people over the years who helped him and believed in him, but slightly put off by his digs at his detractors.  He seems to think he has been uniquely singled out for criticism.  "Why me, Lord?"<\/span><\/p>\n

As I said, a very rich speech.  But every Dylanologist knows that nothing Dylan says about himself or his music should be taken too seriously.  He is a master of many personae and the man himself likes to hide.  As he puts it in The Man in Me<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from being seen<\/span>
But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The best documentation of Dylan the shape shifter and one of the best all-around books on Dylan is David Dalton, Who is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan<\/em> (Hyperion, 2012). If you were 'in there' with him in the heart of '60s you will delight in this well-written volume.<\/span><\/p>\n

The speech ends on this note:<\/span><\/div>\n
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I'm going to get out of here now. I'm going to put an egg in my shoe and beat it. I probably left out a lot of people and said too much about some. But that's OK. Like the spiritual song, 'I'm still just crossing over Jordan too.' Let's hope we meet again. Sometime. And we will, if, like Hank Williams said, "the good Lord willing and the creek don't rise."<\/span><\/div>\n
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High Water<\/a> comes to mind. This is a late-career Dylan gem from Love and Theft<\/em> (2001). A tribute to Charley Patton.  Demonstrates Dylan's mastery of the arcana of Americana. Our greatest and deepest singer-songwriter.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I got a cravin\u2019 love for blazing speed, got a hopped-up Mustang Ford, jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard. I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind, I\u2019m no pig without a wig, I hope you treat me kind, things are breakin\u2019 up out there, high water everywhere.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
My favorite verse:<\/span><\/p>\n
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Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew<\/span>
You can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view<\/span>
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway 5<\/span>
Judge says to the High Sheriff, "I want them dead or alive"<\/span>
Either one, I don't care, high water everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nosiree, Bob, you can't open up your mind to every conceivable point of view, especially when its not dark yet<\/a>, but it's getting there.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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