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September 27, 2005
Dylan The Fabulous Self Promotor...
Bob Dylan is a great musician. I can no longer deny that. And the doc playing on PBS is really interesting, even if it was primarily created by Dylan and his manager.
More interesting to me is this new cd, "Bob Dylan: Live at The Gaslight 1962." Yes, I'm a sell out yuppie-type for buying a cd exclusively available at Starbucks with my grande extra hot soy latte. Bite me.
But seriously, I'm enjoying this more than the soundtrack. Perhaps because this is my first listen to the cd. Perhaps because many of the songs on the soundtrack are available in previous cd's (which are part of mi chavo's collection that I've been borrowing this summer).
Mostly, I don't have access to many other recordings of Dylan singing old folk songs, and I truly enjoy these songs.
He's still stuck on himself, and still refuses to actually let outsiders in no matter how many retrospectives he creates in a variety of mediums. No matter - the music speaks for itself.
And chavo, take note: Baez was a star before Dylan. I'm not trying to argue their relative places in the pantheon of music, but stop crackin at a truly great singer.
Posted by cj at September 27, 2005 07:49 AM