GirlsTalkinSmack.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
I know you’re thinking WTF. But, hey, I kind of like it. Yes, I’m a ginormous Dylan fan; but I don’t like everything he did. I’m not saying this is in the league of, say, Blood on the Tracks. But as far as Xmas songs go, it’s kind of fun to listen to. Maybe it’s [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I was chatting to the local indie record store owner, who is always looking for interesting ways to display his wares and prompt the odd purchase. A lot of the punters are somewhat sheepish, impressionable youngsters clutching their first Led Zeppelin, Roy Harper, Stooges, Floyd etc album and it struck me that it might be worthwhile having a display showing 'How to buy' a particular genre, era or...
liebemarlene vintage (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Thanks so much for all your well-wishing! I ended up going to Tennessee for a few days because my grandma's not doing well and I wanted to go with my family to see her. And I guess I just wanted to spend time with my family in general. Drew couldn't go (he had to work), so yesterday I took my car through the mountains to get here, stopping along the way at antique stores and a thrift store, listening...
Zero G Sound (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
. "A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It's hard for me to relate to that. I mean, it, you know, people enjoying that type of pain, you know?" - Bob Dylan, on "Blood on the Tracks" The story goes like this: In September, 1974, Bob Dylan hired a handful of NYC musicians, went into the studio, and recorded the batch of tunes that came to be known as "Blood on the Tracks"....
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
It’s somewhat of a double-edged sword for anyone brave enough to be romantically entangled with Roger Quigley (who trades solo as At Swim Two Birds and also under a band umbrella as one of The Montgolfier Brothers). On the one hand, a Quigley relationship is pre-destined to end in an emotional cataclysm, to be deconstructed in painful detail just a few notches down from the indiscreetly lurid...
Hongkie Town (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Bob Dylan has a new album. It's called "Christmas in the Heart." That's right, it's a Christmas album. It kicks off with "Here Comes Santa Claus." He's got a lot of back-up singers. And kind of a big country band. And croaks his way through Do You Hear What I Hear, Winter Wonderland, O Little Town of Bethlehem. I mean, he literally croaks, his voice raspy, hoarse and breaking constantly....
East Bay View (mostly a food blog) (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
My big three Dylan albums* will forever be The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , Bringing It All Back Home and Blood on the Tracks , but Love and Theft is top of the second tier. It's an album about staying in Mississippi a day too long, then finding there's now no reason to leave. On "Po' Boy" he employs the novel concept of playing the Fool for laughs, not tragedy. He sings like an old man, but...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Nick Cave's musical career is easily summarised: 20 years of musical and lyrical excellence - first with The Birthday Party and then the Bad Seeds - each album an improvement on the last, reaching a high point with The Boatman's Call in 1997, a record that sits happily alongside Bob Dylan's Blood on The Tracks or Neil Young's On The Beach as one of the greatest rock records of the 20th century. Then...
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