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To: MrEdd

The only thing I’ve seen lately even remotely interesting is Dark Americana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86z2zPcX3mM&list=PLcjh5X1h22tiawLKXRI1XrHhltbcUxMX7

Even Bob Dylan has been picking up some of the style over the last decade.


14 posted on 03/25/2017 10:49:21 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
Bob gave a very extensive recent interview recently. From Billboard, here is an excerpt wherein he describes rock and roll:

"Rock and roll was indeed an extension of what was going on – the big swinging bands – Ray Noble, Will Bradley, Glenn Miller, I listened to that music before I heard Elvis Presley. But rock and roll was high energy, explosive and cut down," says Dylan in the most extensive answer of the 8,000-word interview. "It was skeleton music, came out of the darkness and rode in on the atom bomb and the artists were star headed like mystical Gods. Rhythm and blues, country and western, bluegrass and gospel were always there – but it was compartmentalized – it was great but it wasn’t dangerous. Rock and roll was a dangerous weapon, chrome plated, it exploded like the speed of light, it reflected the times, especially the presence of the atomic bomb which had preceded it by several years. Back then people feared the end of time. The big showdown between capitalism and communism was on the horizon. Rock and roll made you oblivious to the fear, busted down the barriers that race and religion, ideologies put up. We lived under a death cloud; the air was radioactive. There was no tomorrow, any day it could all be over, life was cheap. That was the feeling at the time and I’m not exaggerating."

42 posted on 03/25/2017 12:13:51 PM PDT by HandyDandy ("I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.")
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