tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post5411554138611122979..comments2023-04-15T08:57:27.562-07:00Comments on the kittybrains collective: Thoughts On Bob Dylandr. kittybrainshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756158577917324058noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-38731159553403110002009-05-01T15:30:00.000-07:002009-05-01T15:30:00.000-07:00I just used Stuffit Expander (free download) and l...I just used Stuffit Expander (free download) and let the magic happen.drischordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415230941462114703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-54907223529284059102009-05-01T14:58:00.000-07:002009-05-01T14:58:00.000-07:00Isn't winrar a windows based program? Do you need ...Isn't winrar a windows based program? Do you need something else on a mac.<br /><br />I'm just guessing, I have no idea, but I've used winrar in the past without a problem.<br /><br />Looking forward to looking into Tree With Roots when life slows down a little bit...Quinapalushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09756065227028423860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-24147083052373690802009-05-01T09:51:00.000-07:002009-05-01T09:51:00.000-07:00Eric, your technical fluency trumps mine.
i tried ...Eric, your technical fluency trumps mine.<br />i tried to find the program you mean on that link and the one i downloaded just opened a text-based command box. i can't figure out what to do! help!texplushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17595399668036268554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-39874609586789261552009-05-01T01:17:00.000-07:002009-05-01T01:17:00.000-07:00download winrar (whatever the latest, non-beta ver...download winrar (whatever the latest, non-beta version is): <br />http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htmErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030586653132877610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-11420060597457378572009-04-30T19:36:00.000-07:002009-04-30T19:36:00.000-07:00dudes -
how do i open a rar file?dudes - <br />how do i open a rar file?texplushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17595399668036268554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-45745884194942858962009-04-30T16:15:00.000-07:002009-04-30T16:15:00.000-07:00Ha! Except he actually intentionally released tha...Ha! Except he actually intentionally released that album!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030586653132877610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-7680969366638401032009-04-30T15:05:00.000-07:002009-04-30T15:05:00.000-07:00Also, the album Tree With Roots is reminding me of...Also, the album Tree With Roots is reminding me of more than anything else (and not including the obvious, which is The Basement Tapes)...<br /><br />Jack Logan's "Bulk."drischordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415230941462114703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-54831423680869973502009-04-30T15:04:00.000-07:002009-04-30T15:04:00.000-07:00Agreed on all counts. Yeah, my definition of "fol...Agreed on all counts. Yeah, my definition of "folk" would not jibe with musicologists. I'm really using it to describe '60s-present singers with (usually) acoustic guitars. And who (as this argument would suggest) have a tendency to bare their souls in their lyrics.drischordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415230941462114703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-50994625488756119792009-04-30T13:25:00.000-07:002009-04-30T13:25:00.000-07:00Well it's interesting that you keep using the word...Well it's interesting that you keep using the word "folk" like this. One thing that I got to thinking about is how the term "folk music," in the Harry Smith Anthology sense, means music that every day people listen to in their daily lives (often in a social setting) -- as distinct from music created as high art or for religious purposes (though some religious music is folk music too). But the thing was, in the sixties, a bunch of kids who loved the music on the Harry Smith compilation started playing it with acoustic guitars and later on some of those same kids (and others) started "baring their souls" while playing acoustic guitars, and suddenly "folk" means something totally different. <br /><br />All of which is not to nitpick your usage of the term "folk music" (which is obviously the common colloquial use of it anyway) but point out that, ironically, what Dylan is doing now (especially in the way that he's almost shamelessly appropriating old blues and country melodies for his new songs -- something I take issue with, actually) is far more authentically folk than anything on Blood on the Tracks.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030586653132877610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-69367241146273930942009-04-30T11:35:00.000-07:002009-04-30T11:35:00.000-07:00Tree With Roots sounds amazing-- much more gratify...Tree With Roots sounds amazing-- much more gratifying than the Columbia-released Basement Tapes. Thanks for posting that link!<br /><br />Good point about the "personal" songs on the "impersonal" albums. The more I think about it, the more I'm amazed that Bob Dylan crafted such a prodigious careers as an emotionally evasive folk singer. That's like being an unplugged heavy metal artist.drischordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10415230941462114703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31335050.post-23186164478022713442009-04-30T07:50:00.000-07:002009-04-30T07:50:00.000-07:00I'm glad you posted this, firstly because it&#...I'm glad you posted this, firstly because it's been mighty quiet around here lately, but also because by coincidence I have been listening to almost nothing but Dylan for the past couple weeks. It started after I had absorbed that Bonnie Prince Billy album (you're right-- his stuff is impossible to find used), which led me back to John Wesley Harding, Music From Big Pink and ultimately The Basement Tapes. I had never been a big fan of that record-- too many tossed off speak-songs and The Band at its most banal (though I like Ruben Remus and Katie's Been Gone, which do have that Band sound). But for the first time I decided to dive in to the bootlegs. It's much less intimidating than I thought. I had always likened it to The Beatles Get Back/Let it Be sessions, but while the most recent version of those is literally 80 discs long, the available basement tapes actually fit onto four CDs (the most recent iteration, and the one I downloaded, is called A Tree With Roots, and can be had here, among other places:<br /><br />http://misha4music.blogspot.com/2008/10/bob-dylan-tree-with-roots-1-2-genuine.html<br /><br />and <br /><br />http://misha4music.blogspot.com/2008/10/bob-dylan-tree-with-roots-3-4-genuine.html<br /><br /><br />I highly recommend it. Hearing the tossed off songs in the context of the unreleased songs (some of them absolutely stunning, like I'm Not There and Sign of the Cross) and the covers of various country, blues and traditional folk songs, really enriched the experience and it suddenly made a lot more sense.<br /><br />Hearing Dylan in the context of this blues/country/folk tradition led me to finally give his recent albums a chance, and I've now been spinning Love & Theft pretty regularly (getting Modern Times next). <br /><br />Anyway, to connect this to the actual subject of your post (about which I have more to say), I'm finding that right now, the "Side of Dylan" I'm enjoying is that exact impersonal, folk-tradition-steeped storyteller mode that is his most impersonal.<br /><br />Also, conversely to your comment about Blood on the Tracks, even the less personal albums have more personal songs --- It's All Over Now Baby Blue on Bringing It All Back Home, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues on Highway 61, Don't Think Twice It's Alright on Freewheelin', etc. <br /><br />But it's definitely an interesting observation because I think it's true-- at this point, it's hard to imagine Bob Dylan as an actual person. Especially because at this point, his voice is basically otherworldly.<br /><br />Lastly, I think people are calling this new one "light" and "breezy" because it has a lot of accordion on it. Seriously!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02030586653132877610noreply@blogger.com