{"id":9294,"date":"2012-10-13T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/13\/dylans-new-album\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T19:32:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T19:32:50","slug":"dylans-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/13\/dylans-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan’s New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

In lieu of oldies this Saturday night, a taste of  Bob Dylan's latest, Tempest<\/em>.  Duquesne Whistle<\/a>.  Sampler<\/a>. 1962 version of "Roll on, John"<\/a>  50 years of  assimilation  and creative  reworking of musical Americana by the unlikely Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minnesota.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jody Rosen's New Yorker review<\/a>. Insightful:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The hunt for Dylan in Dylan songs is a mug\u2019s game. Dylan is a genius; he\u2019s also  the greatest bullshitter and jive-talker in popular-music history. He began  laying boobytraps for his exegetes before he even had any, and they\u2014we\u2014have  never stopped taking the bait. Today Dylanology is a midrashic enterprise  rivaling Talmudism and Shakespeare Studies, and it\u2019s worth remembering its  origins: it started with the hippie gadfly A .J. Weberman, who took to \u201creading\u201d toothbrushes recovered from garbage bins outside of Dylan\u2019s MacDougal Street  townhouse. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The original Dylanological sin is to focus too much on the words, and too little  on the sound: to treat Dylan like he\u2019s a poet, a writer of verse, when of course  he\u2019s a musician\u2014a songwriter and, supremely, a singer. \u201cTempest\u201d reminds us what  a thrilling and eccentric vocalist he is.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In lieu of oldies this Saturday night, a taste of  Bob Dylan's latest, Tempest.  Duquesne Whistle.  Sampler. 1962 version of "Roll on, John"  50 years of  assimilation  and creative  reworking of musical Americana by the unlikely Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minnesota. Jody Rosen's New Yorker review. Insightful: The hunt for Dylan in Dylan songs is a … Continue reading “Dylan’s New Album”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dylan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","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=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}