NORMAL SERVICE RESUMED
Greetings. You may have noticed that February appeared to pass me by, blogwise. I was slithering through the mires of finishing the manuscript of my new book HAND ME MY TRAVELIN' SHOES: In Search Of Blind Willie McTell, which is coming out as a UK hardback on July 2nd, published by Bloomsbury. Today saw the end of fiddling about with permissions, acknowledgments and photo credits.
Today, 7 years ago, was the publication date of the US edition of SONG & DANCE MAN III: The Art Of Bob Dylan (New York: Continuum), which I'm pleased to be able to say is still on sale, 5 reprints later. I found a new review of the book - well, it was new to me - here this afternoon: http://www.bonesmusic.com/books.html. This German musician's website lets you here his version of the Dylan song 'Blind Willie McTell'. How very much better this is than the astonishingly dreadful version by some bloke claiming to be Mick Taylor, available on YouTube.
Today is also the birthday of Harry Belafonte, who has a sizeable entry in THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
And now it's March. The frogs in our pond have already produced copious frogspawn and spring is surely on its way.
It's good to be back.
Today, 7 years ago, was the publication date of the US edition of SONG & DANCE MAN III: The Art Of Bob Dylan (New York: Continuum), which I'm pleased to be able to say is still on sale, 5 reprints later. I found a new review of the book - well, it was new to me - here this afternoon: http://www.bonesmusic.com/books.html. This German musician's website lets you here his version of the Dylan song 'Blind Willie McTell'. How very much better this is than the astonishingly dreadful version by some bloke claiming to be Mick Taylor, available on YouTube.
Today is also the birthday of Harry Belafonte, who has a sizeable entry in THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA.
And now it's March. The frogs in our pond have already produced copious frogspawn and spring is surely on its way.
It's good to be back.
posted by Michael Gray | 7:27 pm
1 Comments:
The so-called dreadfull version by "some bloke claiming to be Mick Taylor" is a beautiful interpretation of the song. The person claiming to be Mick Taylor is in fact the very same world-class guitar player Mick Taylor who played on one of the original Bob Dylan outtakes of "Blind Willie McTell".
I guess you just can't appreciate great guitar playing and you prefer the spastic vibrato nd horrible tone of the version of this song that you claim to like. Well, to each his great unwashed own.
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