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Jon Pankake, Bob Dylan, and the NLCR
Ralph Rinzler, Bob Dylan, John Herald at the Gaslight 1962 © John Cohen edited from http://www.folkworks.org/ [Jon Pankake co-edited the music journal The Little Sandy Review in the early 1960s in...
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“Stack a Lee”
Bob Dylan’s liner notes to “Stack a Lee” on his album “World Gone Wrong”: What does the song say exactly? It says no man gains immortality thru public acclaim. Truth is shadowy. In the...
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Made Me Want to Gasp: Roots of Bob Dylan (pt.1)
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (guitar) edited from “Chronicles” by Bob Dylan: BOB DYLAN: I listened especially to The New Lost City Ramblers. I took to them immediately. Everything about them appealed to...
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Breathed Fire Through His Nose: Roots of Bob Dylan (pt. 2)
Clarence Ashley, Jon Pankake, Tex Isley. from “Chronicles,” by Bob Dylan: Jon Pankake, a folk music purist enthusiast and sometime literary teacher and film wiseman, who’d been watching me for a while...
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Delia
by Bob Dylan: DELIA is one sad tale—two or more versions mixed into one. The song has no middle range, comes whipping around the corner, seems to be about counterfeit loyalty. Delia herself, no Queen...
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Love Henry
by Bob Dylan: LOVE HENRY is a “traditionalist” ballad. Tom Paley used to do it. A perverse tale. Henry — modern corporate man off some foreign boat, Unable to handle his “psychosis” responsible for...
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House Carpenter
edited from http://mbmonday.blogspot.com: The Demon Lover and the House Carpenter Laurence Price receives the credit for the original song, published as a broadside in 1657, and entitled “James Harris...
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“Demon Lovers and Gospel Truths”
edited from Ray Templeton (www.mustrad.org.uk) and http://vernacularshellac.com: Dylan: “Maybe when I was about ten, I started playing the guitar. I found a guitar… in the house that my father bought,...
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Arabic violins and Strauss waltzes
edited from Bob Dylan (MusiCares 2015 Person of Year speech): Rock ‘n’ roll is a combination of blues, and it’s a strange thing made up of two parts. A lot of people don’t know this, but the blues,...
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