Tuesday, 07 April 2009

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  Bob, Brothers, and Bluegrass Percussion

  I have my copy of Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews by Jonathan Cott, an excellent collection. I've been underlining different quotes and passages, something I don't usually do but made an exception in this case. I've made is as far as his Rolling Stone interview in '69 after his infamous motorcycle crash and Woodstock break and up to his "Nashville Skyline" album. I really enjoy reading these interviews because I get a broader insight to what Dylan had to put up with. When told he was seen wearing a "sell-out jacket" he wanted to know what defines a sell-out jacket. The reply? Black leather. Oh sing of the narrow minded left. 

  My Nick Hornby book was left neglected until today...it's my lunchtime book. I have specific likes for reading at lunch. I can't read something like All The Pretty Horses because it deserves my full attention, somewhat difficult when I am otherwise engaged in my Smokin' Stampede chips. John Grisham, Ted Dekker; they're lunchtime books. In the same way you can float through some music (like when driving) and others deserve time and sunlight to fully absorb.

  In that same spirit I'm planning a "Bob Dylan Day" once the sun is warm and the snow is gone. I'm going to make myself a pot of coffee, sit in the sunshine and listen to "Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" in order, start to finish with no breaks except to fill my coffee mug. Maybe light a cigarette instead of a candle. That would totally bug him out! He would likely tell me it's no good for me. "Heaven help her!" He certainly wouldn't approve.

  I'm able to do my Dailey & Vincent review since their new CD "Brothers From Different Mothers" showed up in the mail last Friday. An excellent album of course! Their love of the Statler Brothers is evident in the recording, my favourite cover being "Years Ago," a song about a man showing up at his ex-wife's wedding. It uses percussion although tastefully done as a sort of background afterthought. It certainly wouldn't be the same without it though and if The Osborne Brothers can do it, so can Dailey & Vincent. (You don't know who the Osborne Brothers are, do you?) I should add, they also use percussion on "Don't Let Our Sweet Love Die."

  They once again add a Gillian Welch and David Rawlings song to their list, "Winter's Come and Gone" a perfectly acceptable song given the weather of late. Darrin Vincent is able to feature his archtop guitar on this song in a very Rawlings-like attitude. I couldn't be more pleased that they're Welch and Rawlings fans since I very nearly worship the ground Ms. Gillian treads upon. 

  The album also spotlights some fantastic gospel numbers including the more upbeat "Oh Ye Must Be Born Again." It's the kind of song that would make a lot of folks I know say, "I don't like bluegrass but I like that." HELLO! As written in the liner notes, "There is music on this album that will be familiar and attractive to southern gospel, country music, or folk-oriented listeners who don't yet recognize themselves as bluegrass fans." Amen.

  Other listenings at the moment include a Hank Williams dual-disc featuring a new favourite of mine, "Honky-Tonkin'" and a new band Fiction Family consisting of Sean Watkins from Nickel Creek and Jon Foreman of Switchfoot...I couldn't have dreamed it up better if I'd tried. Perhaps I'll include more on either albums at a later date.

   

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