Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Great Regulars: Here is where [Bob] Dylan parted company

with the other folk-song writers of his day. Realizing that to continue with the traditional melodies would be an artistic dead end, he began to write the songs that, as he says in his 2004 autobiography, established him as "a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows." These are the songs that appear on the eight albums from "Bob Dylan" (1962) to "John Wesley Harding" (1968) that make up the new mono recordings.

from David Kirby: The Christian Science Monitor: Bob Dylan unfiltered: Fall tour brings new releases, old recordings

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