Bob Dylan – The second recording session for “Bringing It All Back Home”
….Bringing It All Back Home, that was like a break through point, it’s the kind of music I’ve been striving to make and I believe that in time people will see that. It’s hard to explain it, it’s that...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The third & final recording session for “Bringing It All Back...
I’ve written some songs that I look at, and they just give me a sense of awe….stuff like, It’s Alright, Ma, just the alliteration in that blows me away. And I can also look back and know where I was...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home
….when we recorded Bringing It All Back Home, that was like a break through point, it’s the kind of music I’ve been striving to make and I believe that in time people will see that. It’s hard to...
View ArticleToday: Aretha Franklin is 71
If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about. ~Aretha Franklin...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The 8th and last Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan session – 24 April 1963 –...
Freewheelin’ in it’s released form is essentially a “best of” from one of the most creative years in Dylan’s life. The lag between sessions resulted in an album whose sound metamorphosed at least...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The 2nd The Times They Are A-Changin’ recording session – 7...
“Another thing about Times They Are A-Changin’ – I wanted to say in it that if you have something that you don’t want to lose, and people threaten you, you are not really free.” ~Bob Dylan (to Ray...
View ArticleBob Dylan – Another Side Of Bob Dylan (album)
“I wrote my fourth album [“Another Side of Bob Dylan”] in Greece, but that was still an American album.” ~Bob Dylan (to Robert Shelton June 1978) “Tom Wilson, the producer, titled it that,” [Another...
View ArticleToday: Buddy Miller is 61
A showman’s life is a smokey bar and The fevered chase of a tiny star It’s a hotel room and a lonely wife From what I’ve seen of a showman’s life Nobody told me about this part They told me … Continue...
View ArticleBob Dylan: The 7th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan session – 6 Dec 1962
Freewheelin’ in it’s released form is essentially a “best of” from one of the most creative years in Dylan’s life. The lag between sessions resulted in an album whose sound metamorphosed at least...
View ArticleBob Dylan: The Times They Are a-Changin’, released 50 years ago today
“The message isn’t in the words, …. I don’t do anything with a sort of message. I’m just transferring my thoughts into music. Nobody can give you a message like that.” ~Bob Dylan (to Ray Coleman, May...
View ArticleBob Dylan: The Second Recording Session for “Bringing It All Back Home”,...
….Bringing It All Back Home, that was like a break through point, it’s the kind of music I’ve been striving to make and I believe that in time people will see that. It’s hard to explain it, it’s that...
View ArticleBob Dylan: The third & final recording session for “Bringing It All Back Home”
I’ve written some songs that I look at, and they just give me a sense of awe….stuff like, It’s Alright, Ma, just the alliteration in that blows me away. And I can also look back and know where I was...
View ArticleToday: Happy 70th Birthday Al Kooper
Al Kooper, by rights, should be regarded as one of the giants of ’60s rock, not far behind the likes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon in importance. …. he was a very audible sessionman on some of the most...
View ArticleToday: Bob Dylan released Bringing It All Back Home in 1965 49 years ago
….when we recorded Bringing It All Back Home, that was like a break through point, it’s the kind of music I’ve been striving to make and I believe that in time people will see that. It’s hard to...
View ArticleBob Dylan: The 8th and last Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan session, 24 April 1963
Freewheelin’ in it’s released form is essentially a “best of” from one of the most creative years in Dylan’s life. The lag between sessions resulted in an album whose sound metamorphosed at least...
View ArticleAugust 7: Bob Dylan: The 2nd The Times They Are A-Changin’ recording session,...
“Another thing about Times They Are A-Changin’ – I wanted to say in it that if you have something that you don’t want to lose, and people threaten you, you are not really free.” ~Bob Dylan (to Ray...
View ArticleAugust 8: Bob Dylan: Another Side Of Bob Dylan (album)
“I wrote my fourth album [“Another Side of Bob Dylan”] in Greece, but that was still an American album.” ~Bob Dylan (to Robert Shelton June 1978) “Tom Wilson, the producer, titled it that,” [Another...
View ArticleDec 6: The 7th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session in 1962
Freewheelin’ in it’s released form is essentially a “best of” from one of the most creative years in Dylan’s life. The lag between sessions resulted in an album whose sound metamorphosed at least...
View ArticleBob Dylan – The Times They Are a-Changin’
“The message isn’t in the words, …. I don’t do anything with a sort of message. I’m just transferring my thoughts into music. Nobody can give you a message like that.” ~Bob Dylan (to Ray Coleman, May...
View Article50 years ago: Bob Dylan – The first recording session for “Bringing It All...
I never wanted to write topical songs,…. Have you heard my last two records, Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61? It’s all there. That’s the real Dylan. ~Bob Dylan (Frances Taylor Interview, Aug....
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