[lit-ideas] Re: It's Friday!
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:07:39 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
>If you're referencing to Bob Dylan's "Nashville Skyline", please don't refer
>to his music as "country music". >
But 'Nashville Skyline' is country music. Country music influences also can be
detected, in hindsight, in Dylan's folk period both in the music and in the
songwriting, particularly the influence of Hank Williams. Even when he 'went
electric', 'Blonde On Blonde' - for example, 'Memphis Blues Again' - creates a
hybrid sound that has country elements; it was also recorded mostly in
Nashville with Nashville session players. Even recent material, like
'Missisippi' from 'Love And Theft', has strong country elements and are often
performed in a 'Western swing' style. 'Girl From The Greenbriar Shore', from
'Tell Tale Signs', is "country music" more than anything. So might be "'Cross
The Green Mountain".
Mike should know all this because he has The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia which
explains how the counter-culture was at its height and riddled with its own
self-importance and snobbery when Dylan made his next move, into what hipsters
then despised as redneck music, with 'Nashville Skyline'. [It took Dylan about
ten years to make a similarly daring next move, when he 'got religion'].
Dylan doesn't have much connection with the country music of Gareth Brooks or
Shania Twain, but much with that of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash.
On the subject of Dylan's "divinity", Youtube has some interesting things to
say:-
Castration Row
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_Vjm5UE6I&feature=related
For Ivor Jung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSd9kzxfgk&feature=related
Ollie Murs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB-JKWWLBlo&feature=related
Lick A Railing, Stan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfmADXpLZUU&feature=related
Strangled Cockatu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP7QIMppSBI&feature=related
Hassad & His Bin Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmaUd7DBYyo&feature=related
Donal
Writing from the country
Been working in the town
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