Post Tagged with: "Bob Dylan"

by / on September 28, 2011 at 9:41 am / in Blues, Something Else! Interviews, Uncategorized

Something Else! Interview: Blues legend Duke Robillard

Duke Robillard, co-founder of Roomful of Blues and a former member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, has earned high praise from none other than B.B. King — who labeled him “one of the great players.”

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by / on May 24, 2011 at 9:09 am / in Featured Artist, Rock Music

Something Else! Featured Artist: Bob Dylan

In honor of Bob Dylan‘s birthday today, Something Else! Reviews presents 7 for 70 — our list of top recordings from across the 70-year-old’s lengthy career. We were careful to select at least one project from each of his five decades in music

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by / on April 25, 2011 at 8:33 am / in Rock Music, Something Else! Interviews

Something Else! Interview: Roots rocker Sherman Ewing

Sherman Ewing’s Single Room Saloon arrived with a sound that is at once intuitive and raw, but somehow well-worn and familiar, too.

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by / on April 7, 2011 at 11:28 am / in Featured Artist, Progressive rock, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Something Else! Featured Artist: Emerson Lake and Palmer

Emerson, Lake and Palmer somehow went from selling 40 million records early on to becoming one of the 1970s’ more reviled rock bands by the end of that decade. The reasons were many

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by / on March 21, 2011 at 9:09 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

Sherman Ewing – Single Room Saloon (2011)

by Nick DeRiso There are songs you listen to with one elbow jutting out a car window, the gas pedal cutting into the floor mat. Then there are the things that open up different vistas, albums that bring you around to quieter places — sounds that force you to stop and take stock. Sherman Ewing’s rootsy new Single Room Saloon [...]

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by / on February 4, 2011 at 6:00 am / in Friday Morning Listen, Uncategorized

The Friday Morning Listen: The Black Keys – Brothers (2010)

Photo by Pieter M Van Hattem by Mark Saleski I have no doubt that a lot of Bob Dylan fans will be incensed at what I’m about to admit, but here we go: if you don’t count his first Greatest Hits collection (which I inherited from my sister), the first Dylan album I bought was At Budokan. My “has to [...]

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by / on December 7, 2010 at 6:04 am / in Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Bob Dylan, "Not Dark Yet" (1997)

For me, “Not Dark Yet” is the best thing Bob Dylan has done in ages, this perfect enigma from a guy who’s made a career of such sleights of hand. An edgy post-modern lament downshifted into quiet Civil War balladry, “Not Dark Yet,” remains a riddle — and maybe that’s the very definition of good art: It’s something that you [...]

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by / on October 31, 2010 at 5:00 am / in Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Leslie Pintchik "Blowin' In The Wind" (2010)

photo: Jimmy Katz by Pico Bob Dylan is a towering figure in folk, and as we were reminded a few days ago, his legacy extends deep into rock music, too, via the all the strong and memorable covers done by rock bands, especially The Byrds. What’s more interesting is that Dylan’s reach also extends to music forms that have little [...]

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by / on October 25, 2010 at 5:00 am / in Uncategorized

One Track Mind: The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965)

by Nick DeRiso A Bob Dylan song reimagined into something like the Beach Boys, and also something like the Beatles — and nothing like folk music — propelled the Byrds to their first No. 1. Oh, and started the folk-rock movement. Among other things. It begins with Roger McGuinn’s guitar, sustained and bright, which was then paired alongside a complex [...]

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by / on April 27, 2009 at 6:23 pm / in Rock Music, Roots Music, Uncategorized

Bob Dylan – Together Through Life (2009)

by Nick DeRiso Bob Dylan, commissioned to do some soundtrack work, kept recording with the assembled group — ultimately producing a powerfully personal result. “Together Through Life,” out on April 28 on Columbia, is a revelation in its stubborn unwillingness to move into the realm of Statements. Of Big Records. Of Career-Defining Blah Blah Blah. Dylan wants to make a [...]

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