More Dylanalia
Since posting about Dylan covering other people's songs, I stumbled into a bunch of others on MOG -- www.mog.com , a music blog site. (By the way in my last post I said Wolftrap was in Maryland; turns out it's in Virginia -- which speaks volumes about what condition my condition must have been in at the time).
On MOG I found Dylan covering George Harrison's "Something"
There was also a cover of Sam Cooke's "A Change is gonna come" which Ossie Davis in his introduction says was inspired by "Blowin' in the Wind" -- never knew that! (but it can't touch Otis Redding's version).
There's also an audio clip from Dylan's XM radio show of his reciting "'Twas the Night before Christmas" and a clip of his singing some Shel Silverstein lyrics.
DYLAN ON ED SULLIVAN -- NOT
At the Skirball, at the very end of the exhibit, there's a video monitor where Dylan recounts how he walked off the Ed Sullivan in 1963 -- and how he regrets doing so.
MIKE BLOOMFIELD
He also says in another video clip that he thought Mike Bloomfield made a mistake not joining Dylan on the road. I agree -- Bloomfield's searing guitar on Maggie's Farm live at Newport was never matched.
DYLAN INTERVIEWS
In the course of my research for my column I came across two recent interviews with Dylan in Rolling Stone which are worth reading. one by Jonathan Lethem (September 7, 2006) and the other by Jann Wenner himself (May 7, 2007).
In my column, I say that Dylan rejected the whole notion of leaders. To that opinion Dylan has remained true. Here's what he told Wenner:
On MOG I found Dylan covering George Harrison's "Something"
There was also a cover of Sam Cooke's "A Change is gonna come" which Ossie Davis in his introduction says was inspired by "Blowin' in the Wind" -- never knew that! (but it can't touch Otis Redding's version).
There's also an audio clip from Dylan's XM radio show of his reciting "'Twas the Night before Christmas" and a clip of his singing some Shel Silverstein lyrics.
DYLAN ON ED SULLIVAN -- NOT
At the Skirball, at the very end of the exhibit, there's a video monitor where Dylan recounts how he walked off the Ed Sullivan in 1963 -- and how he regrets doing so.
MIKE BLOOMFIELD
He also says in another video clip that he thought Mike Bloomfield made a mistake not joining Dylan on the road. I agree -- Bloomfield's searing guitar on Maggie's Farm live at Newport was never matched.
DYLAN INTERVIEWS
In the course of my research for my column I came across two recent interviews with Dylan in Rolling Stone which are worth reading. one by Jonathan Lethem (September 7, 2006) and the other by Jann Wenner himself (May 7, 2007).
In my column, I say that Dylan rejected the whole notion of leaders. To that opinion Dylan has remained true. Here's what he told Wenner:
“I think what you’re driving at, though, is we expect politicians to solve all our problems. I don’t expect politicians to solve anybody’s problems….We’ve got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and everyone of us, the world owes us not a single thing. Politicians or whoever….”
In Lethem’s Rolling Stone interview, Dylan makes an interesting point—that a lot of the songs he wrote during that era continue to be played by him and covered by others. He asks how many other artists of the era can one say that about?“I love Marvin Gaye,” Dylan says, “But how often are you gonna hear “What’s going on? I mean who sings it….Where is that being sung tonight?”
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