Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary says that in 1964, when Dylan abandoned political subjects to write relationship-based material, he did so with the blessing of most of the folk scene: “We had our own feelings about it, certainly. But who knows? What does he do all day? Does he work on the next volume of his book? Does he write new songs?” I think he's constantly listening to new music, or old music. I think inside the bus, I think he has books, he has a typewriter, he has some sort of outlet to listen to music. Rolling Stone magazine's Austin Scaggs - the son of Boz Scaggs - says that the constantly touring Dylan is just as mysterious today as he was 60 years ago: “I don't think he travels with family. And one person who was working with me earlier on did a whole entire record with me and realized that he used the wrong mics on me, and for a variety of reasons.”īob Dylan, who still dips heavily into his backlog of 1960's and '70s tunes during his shows, was asked about the composition of his groundbreaking work across his first two decades as a songwriter: “There's a magic to that and it's not Siegfried & Roy-kinda magic, y'know, and it's a different kind of a penetrating magic. He told us that after years of working with assorted producers, he feels that they all simply found it too difficult separating his new music from the legend of “Dylan”: “Well, usually when it come to me, whoever is operating the controls is just thinking 'This is a 'Bob Dylan' record, this is a 'Bob Dylan' song.' So, they're not thinking about what I particularly sound like. They came out of the folk music realm, but it's also done with a rhythm and a certain type of poetic nuance that I don't know how I derived that.”ĭylan has been self-producing his albums for over a two decades. In June 2020, Dylan released his 39th studio set - and first new album in eight years - titled Rough And Rowdy Ways.ĭuring a chat with 60 Minutes, Bob Dylan tried to explain how his early songs were constructed: “My stuff were songs, y'know, they weren't sermons. The catalogue of over 600 songs spans a full 60 years up through Dylan's most recent album, 2020's Rough And Rowdy Ways. The non-fiction work follows his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One and feature 60 essays featuring Dylan's musings on other popular musicians - including Stephen Foster, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, and Nina Simone.ĭylan made history last year when sold his entire music publishing catalogue to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) for an estimated $400 million. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006.Ģ022 saw the publication of Bob Dylan's first new book in 18 years, titled, The Philosophy Of Modern Song. The five-CD or 10-LP set includes a newly-remixed version of the Grammy Award winning 1997 Time Out Of Mind album by famed engineer Michael Brauer, accompanied by no less than three other discs of alternate versions, outtakes, live takes, and a bonus disc including previously released material from the critically acclaimed The Bootleg Series Vol. Out now is Bob Dylan's Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol.17. The full-length Shadow Kingdom feature film will also be available for download and rental on Tuesday, June 6th. The set marks the first time the audio from the show has been officially issued and will be available in digital, CD and double-LP 12-inch vinyl formats. Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan, the voice of his generation, who celebrates his 82nd birthday today (May 24th)!!! On June 2nd, Dylan will release the long-awaited soundtrack to his 2021 virtual Shadow Kingdom live concert.
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