d y l a n | Folk/Rock/Art Rock | 76:53
“Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman, I made a mix for you . . .“
A surprise (and unplanned) mix that I never thought we’d make; mainly because in thirty years of mixing, I’ve never made a Bob Dylan mix or ever used one of his songs in a project (the only Dylan album I’ve ever bought was 1976’s ‘Desire‘, while in high school).
Yet, this is a tribute to the musical & poetic genius of one Robert Zimmerman, inspired over the past few weeks during several, random discussions about the movie ‘A Complete Unknown‘. Tracks 1 & 2 are positioned so as to draw attention to David Bowie’s “sand & glue“ description of Dylan’s raw vocal style.
On a personal note; as an old, English Literature major {Chaucer, Joyce, Shakespeare, O’Neil, Frost, Beckett, Browning, Ionesco, Woolf, Sartre, Chekhov . . .) delving into Dylan’s sublime lyricism was a genuine exercise in transformative, cultural reflection. Of particular, musical note is track 11 (Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 1966): one can hear the influences of that tracing through David Bowie’s 1971 Queen Bitch (despite Bowie penning it as a tribute to the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed).
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01 [00:00] D. Robert Jones – Song for Bob Dylan (1971)
02 [04:06] Bob Dylan – The Times They are A-Changin’ (1964)
03 [07:16] …… …… …… …My Back Pages (1964)
04 [11:36] …… …… …… …Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright (1962)
05 [15:10] …… …… …… …One More Cup of Coffee (1976)
06 [18:49] …… …… …… …Gotta Serve Somebody (1979)
07 [23:58] …… …… …… …Like a Rolling Stone (1965)
08 [29:57] …… …… …… …Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)
09 [32:11] …… …… …… …Tangled up in Blue (1975)
10 [37:47] …… …… …… …Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (1966)
11 [44:48] …… …… …… …Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (1966)
12 [48:35] …… …… …… …Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (1966)
13 [53:01] …… …… …… …It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (1965)
14 [57:00] …… …… …… …Maggie’s Farm (1965)
15 [06:01] Lucky Wilbury (Traveling Wilburys) – Tweeter and the Monkey Man (1988)
16 [66:04] Mick Ronson (w/ David Bowie) – Like a Rolling Stone (1965/1994)
17 [70:12] The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (1967/1968)
18 [74:04] My Chemical Romance – Desolation Row (1965/2009)
