{"id":8777,"date":"2013-05-18T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/18\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton-3\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:28:45","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/18\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-dylan-on-rick-nelson-and-james-burton-3\/","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><\/p>\n

 
     He was different from  the rest of the teen idols, had a<\/span>
     great guitarist who played like a cross between a honky-tonk<\/span>
     hero and a barn-dance fiddler. Nelson had never been a bold<\/span>
     innovator like the early singers who sang like they were navigating<\/span>
     burning ships. He didn't sing desperately, do a lot of damage, and<\/span>
     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 E. P.  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 twenty five 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 … 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":[167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","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=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}