PartyDoll MEG wrote on Jan 9^th, 2010 at 5:00pm:


Fecking brilliant, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!! I just tuned in to a live version of "Simple Twist of Fate" that makes me smile broadly while at the same time making me want to cry.


Thank you to whomever posted the link.

jostorm wrote on Jan 11^th, 2010 at 5:09pm:

I'm sorry Johanna..

I couldn't get thru one listen  of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" so I guess in my old age I will never love Bob enough to do the 50 times thing with his Xmas CD unless my hearing goes!

i put up a bob dylan poster in my classroom and none of my students save two or three knew who he was. even the speech bubble reading "Tempora mu-mutant" didn't help.

and the sad thing is that i have about 170 students.

seriously...these are the ones who will be wiping my butt when i get older.

I am going to guess that I listened to "Christmas In The Heart" at least 100 times, if not more and tho' I am a tad "old" that record just kept getting better with each spin.....Bob's voice is so crackly and I can truly imagine him standing next to me in our tiny church back in New Paris OH during the Christmas Eve service singing his heart out.  It brings tears to my eyes.  I hope he makes another one! 

xoxoxoxo,
Martha

jostorm wrote on Jan 12^th, 2010 at 2:43am:



You & I have met on six occasions, Jo :

Berlin July '06 - Stones
Manchester Nov'06 - Lucinda Williams (The 'M2' summit)
Wembley April'07 - Dylan
Madrid June '07 - Stones
Manchester March '08 - Neil Young
Dublin May '09 - Dylan

Would have been seven, only you weren't able to make it to London in August '07 for the Stones 02 show you had a ticket for.

You're right about Erik. I've never in my life seen anyone with a capacity to guzzle whisky like that. All of them undiluted!

Gazza wrote on Jan 13^th, 2010 at 1:09pm:



Thankyou, your Trinity Holiness, now everyone will think I'm totally ga-ga...
I'm free on July 10th and Venice sounds like the ideal seventh date, how about it?

if you're not aware of Mr Bob Dylan and his legacy, you are not permitted to whipe my butt....word.

jostorm wrote on Jan 15^th, 2010 at 4:33am:


no- fully qualified and experienced butt wipers, only need apply.

My favorite Dylan video...both versions side by side...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDnU_tywYQ

Bob Dylan to Perform at the White House

"In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" to be Aired February 11

Event marks the continuation of White House Music Series by celebrating Black History Month

The 2010 White House Music Series begins on Wednesday, February 10th, when the President and First Lady will host "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" - a concert celebrating Black History month. Participants include Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Seal, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Howard University Choir and others. Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah will serve as emcees for this concert which will feature songs from the Civil Rights Movement as well as readings from famous Civil Rights speeches and writings. The President will make opening remarks at this concert held in the East Room which will streamed live on http://www.whitehouse.gov starting at 5:15 p.m. ET.

The concert will be televised on February 11th at 8:00 p.m. ET on public broadcasting stations nationwide as part of WETA Washington, D.C.'s "In Performance at the White House" series. NPR will also produce a one-hour concert special from this event for broadcast nationwide on NPR Member stations throughout the month of February, beginning February 12th. The special will be available on http://www.npr.org/music.

As part of this special event, Mrs. Obama will host "Music that Inspired the Movement," a workshop that several of the event's performers will lead for 120 high school students from across the country on Wednesday, February 10th from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET. The students will come to learn about the continuing relevance of music from the Civil Rights Movement to today's generation and its original impact in the 1960s. This event will be streamed live on www.whitehouse.gov and students all over the country will be invited to watch and engage in the workshop.

First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the White House Music Series last year with a Jazz Studio, and since then has hosted a celebration of Country Music, a Fiesta Latina and a celebration of Classical Music. Many of these events included evening performances as well as daytime educational workshops designed to educate and inspire talented young people to use their gifts to develop a future for themselves in the arts community whether as a hobby or as a profession.

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/news/bob-dylan-perform-white-house

He hasnt sung that since 1976 when it was topical..plus its a bit long.

Being a civil rights commemoration, there's quite a few more appropriate songs from around 1963-64 that he could sing instead.

e.g. - The Times They Are A Changin, Only A Pawn In Their Game., The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Oxford Town, even Blowin' In The Wind.

He even sang Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" on a TV special a couple of years ago, so even an appropriate cover version like that would be possible.

Bob Dylan Song Turned Into Children's Book

Bob Dylan’s Christianity-inspired album Slow Train Coming contains a slew of quotes from and allusions to the Bible, of course, but the most blatant declaration of Dylan’s then-newfound faith was perhaps in his riffing on Genesis 2:20’s line about Adam “naming livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field” in the song “Man Gave Names To All The Animals.” Sounds like a kids book title to me, and Dylan, as well as Sterling Children’s Books, apparently agrees…

In a press release emailed to us, Sterling and artist Jim Arnosky announced the upcoming release of Man Gave Names to All the Animals, a children’s picture book inspired by Dylan’s lyrics and accompanied by a recording of the original song on CD.

“From the first time I heard it, the lyrics created pictures in my mind of a land of primeval beauty,” Arnosky said. “I thought this vision would make a dream of a book, and I asked for Bob Dylan’s permission to make this dream come true. Happily, he said yes.”

Yeah, it almost seems like Dylan always intended the song to be turned into a kids book with these lyrics (e.g. “He saw an animal leavin’ a muddy trail / Real dirty face and a curly tail. / He wasn’t too small and he wasn’t too big. / Ah, think I’ll call it a pig).

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