Walt,
I slapped my head and said "Doh" as soon as I clicked send. Bad email
reading skills. Mea culpa.
I think I'm with you about over-analysis. I just enjoy the feast of
language and his many voices and forms of delivery. I get enthralled by a
phrase once in while, but I don't try to turn the songs into the Summa
Theologica.
In many ways he's been saving his best work for last. "Love and Theft" is
probably my favorite record of the past 5 years. Best on vinyl, of course. :)
Joel W.
At 11:25 PM 1/20/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Whoa! Did we have a bad connection here? When I said I didn't think much
>of Dylan's work, that I just listended to it, I certainly didn't mean I
>didn't care for Dylan! Having been to a half dozen concerts and owning
>all the albums should be proof of my admiration for ol' Bobby Zimmerman
>and his work. I take his music sort of like religious fundies take the
>Bible: unquestioningly, just accepting and wallowing in it without
>reservation. Like William Hurt's character Nick said while zoned out and
>watching an old movie on TV in "The Big Chill," you shouldn't be too
>analytical; sometimes you just have to let art flow over you. That's what
>I do with Dylan. And, I confess, with Van Morrison and a couple of other
>folks, too.
>
>Daniel Lanois is a great producer, and like another great record producer,
>T Bone Burnett, he also has a couple of pretty darn good albums himself.
>
>Walt
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>Edward Weston
>
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> >
> > I had a feeling you might not care for Dylan. The book is
> > very interesting to me, especially for what it leaves out:
> > nothing about his marriage and breakup, which is such a
> > monumental and self-exposed element of his work from
> > "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" through "Blood on the
> > Tracks." And nothing about his conversion to Christianity
> > in the late '70s. Of the five chapters, almost one is given
> > to "New Morning," and one whole other to "Oh Mercy" (which
> > is one of my favorite records, so I enjoyed it a lot, but I
> > can't imagine reading it if I didn't know that record and
> > its great sound as engineered by Daniel Lanois). Three more
> > chapters to cover everything else.
> >
> > Lots of gaps, you might say.
> >
> > I suppose the biggest theme is the suffocation of his fame
> > and having to live up to expectations of his following. He
> > explicitly addresses trying to recreate himself in order to
> > shake loose. Makes things like "Nashville Skyline" finally
> > make sense.
> >
> > He's got a wild gift for prose too. I think you'd enjoy it.
> >
> > Joel W.
> >
> > Quoting Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Don't think much of Dylan's work; I just listen to it.
> > > Between the vinyl and the little silver frisbees, I don't
> > > think I'm missing a single album. I've never counted,
> > > but it must be around 50 or more. Gotta get the bio.
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
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