Date: 2025-04-12
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Da Vinci, Beaker, Big Mac, Homie, DQ, Samsonite, LeMond, Sweet P FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Highway 61 Revisited Beatdown
40 grammy nominations , 10 actual grammys, honorary doctorates, presidential medal of freedom, Nobel Prize in literature – say what you will, but Dylan is to be reckoned with.
Warmorama God On Our Side to give a sense of the acoustic Dylan
Greatest dig against the Midwest in “God on Our Side,” the Country I Came from We Call the Midwest”
That’s from 1964 acoustic The Times They Are a Changin’
But after the July 26, 1965 electric at Newport Folk Festival
Then this album just a month later. A new look at the Midwest, Highway 61 (New Orleans to Duluth where Dylan was born).
>From Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan: ‘Released on August 30, 1965, Highway 61 Revisited kicked off with “Like a Rolling Stone,” the single that in 2004 Rolling Stone would enshrine as “the greatest song of all time.” Highway 61 Revisited sits dead center of the 1960s fable.. The nine songs track the moment where he finally pieced together his divergent pasts: the early love of R&B and rock & roll he chased in Hibbing High combos like the Golden Chords, and tentatively renewed for the electric side of his previous release, Bringing It All Back Home; his immersion in American traditional music, folk, blues, country, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music; his reading of poetry and novels, John Steinbeck, Rimbaud, Bertolt Brecht, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.” I would add, of course, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Bruce Springsteen has described the beginning of “Like a Rolling Stone,” the opening song on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited, as the “snare shot that sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind.”
The thang:
Individual PAX choose Ab Exercise
Like a Rolling Stone
Merkens and NAME THE AB
Tombstone Blues
Curls and NAME THE AB
“Though his public turn to evangelical Christianity felt radical to those wedded to the notion that he was a “liberal humanist” (a term he once called “bullshit . . . it means less than nothing”), echoes of gospel music were present in his music long before he declared himself born again. Early Dylan is littered with references to saints, sinners, jokers, thieves, and faith healers… (CCBD)
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry
Should Press and NAME THE AB
>From a Buick 6
Goblet Squats and NAME THE AB
Ballad of a Thin Man (Cat Power Version)
Should Press and NAME THE AB
“I was into the rural blues as well; it was a counterpart of myself. It was connected to early rock & roll and I liked it because it was older than Muddy and Wolf. Highway 61, the main thoroughfare of the country blues, begins about where I came from . . . Duluth to be exact. I always felt like I’d started on it, always had been on it and could go anywhere from it . . .” (240). What Highway 61 might mean for Dylan sounds inexhaustible, but isn’t Revisited the tricky part? Revisited implies return, maybe rediscovery, or reawakening, and also something like their opposite – a second, harder look at early hopes for “fortune or fame”?
Queen Jane Approximately
Skullcrushers and NAME THE AB
Highway 61 Revisited
Row and NAME THE AB
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
and NAME THE AB
At a 1979 concert during the tour for Slow Train Coming, his first album of gospel music, Dylan remembered how his critics had tried for years to tell him he was a prophet and overridden all his objections to the contrary, until one day he’d come around and declared Christ to be the answer – whereupon they turned on him, saying, “Bob Dylan’s no prophet.”
Desolation Row
Dips and Dollys and Derkens
Moleskine:
>From his Nobel Prize https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/speech/, delivered in absentia: “As a performer I’ve played for 50,000 people and I’ve played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly.”
COT: Prayers for Beaker friend, Sweet P job, praise for Homie baby.
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