Bob Dylan wins a Pulitzer prize

Yahoo - AP ^ | 04/08/08 | HILLEL ITALIE

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Thanks for the Ping Scott. I’ll bet he was surprised.

[Mr. Blonde]

I remember seeing a review for the soundtrack of “I’m Not There” that said the principle problem was all of the artists were far too reverent with the songs. They were doing them all traditionally, whereas Bob had changed them all up dramatically in the last few years.

[Califreak]

Thanks! That one always slew me!

[Mr. Blonde]

One criticism that I can accept of Mr Dylan is that he has restrained himself by not allowing his true voice to be heard through open dialog clearly enunciating his views on today's issues.

I think one of the things so many artists forget about today is how much your mystique plays into being a rock star. The only one that really seems to understand it in the current generation is Jack White. Who has a pretty close relationship with Bob. When he played with Bob he convinced Bob to do songs that he had either never performed live or not in several decades.

[MeekOneGOP]

Next up for an award ...

Willie Nelson!

That way we have Rock n Roll AND Country & Western Liberals covered !

lol!

[scott says]

" As far as I know the only way to hear the new version is live, which is kind of a shame as I'd like to have it in my collection."

You should check out some of the bit torrent sites such as
Dime a Dozen
You need to sign up but every Dylan show is posted on this site pretty much a day or two after the show, audience recordings but done with cutting edge equipment.. Some are really quite excellent sound quality....its all there and available to anyone with the time and energy to download.

[potlatch]

Lol, I’ve been to see Willy several times, right up front and talked to his sister after one “concert”. She had her piano carried around with them every where they went.

Willie did lie on the roof of the White House and smoke pot, he should get something for that, lolol!

Used to go to Lukenbach [sp] a lot but he was never there when I went. Quite an experience on a weekend just to be there at night time, sitting on tree stumps, etc, back then, with all the singers.

[aruanan]

"I spent most of the time on dead-ends and doubts," he told The Associated Press on Monday

Wah wah wah.

[devolve]

Hoo Moi?

[La Enchiladita]

I'm a Tim O'Brien fan from the Hot Rize days and a Dylan fan from when he came on the scene. I did not know Tim had covered Dylan.

Forever Young/Baby, Let Me Follow You Down~~Bob Dylan (YouTube)

[dmz]

Count me as an anti-Dylanista.

He is way overrated. Although his son is a dream with talent obviously inherited from his Mother.
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Now that’s just funny and I don’t care who you are. Dad, one of the giants (whether you like it or not) of songwriting in the 2nd half of the 20th century, has a son who is a pretty fair songwriter himself, and you attribute the talent to mom.

[submarinerswife]

DAD CAN'T SING!!!!! Jakob Dylan can sing.....WTH did he get the talent in spite of his father's lack of it? Hmmmm?? But I will admit that Jakob Dylan did inherit his Daddy's blue eyes. Thankfully, nothing else.

[dmz]

Someday, when Jakob has a few more years under his belt, he will be able to convey the same kind of depth that his dad does through his inferior singing. Bob is as much on pitch as he needs to be, nasally, sure is, but his intonation is not all that bad - just a lot of undesirable overtones.

And Jakob live? He sings a bit flat pretty frequently. Have you ever seen him live? What you hear on the studio recordings is his best performance pieced together by copy and paste, and then likely run through a pitch correcting signal processor.

No slam on Jakob and the Wallflowers, every one of their cds is on my iPod (yes even the one that preceded Bringing down the horse.

[Ignatz]

I agree. Tom Waits isn't mainstream (however, straight-ahead rock-n-roller Bob Seger covered "New Coat of Paint" on his albumn, The Fire Inside), but he can put more pathos in a single phrase written on a Post-it note than Sheryl Crow's complete output to date written on a whole roll of bathroom tissue!

"I'm Still Here" is an incredible song, that clocks in at under two minutes, and will have grown men weeping by the end of it!

[submarinerswife]

I have never been able to relate to Dylan's music and I honestly truly think he is hideous to listen to.

BUT I will give the man his due. He was and is a great American songwriter.

AND he was bearable when he sang with the Traveling Wilburys because TOM Petty helped drown out his voice.......and his Son is GORGEOUS!