It’s Bob Dylan’s birthday. So this, of course, is appropriate. Happy 71st, my man.
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I should just stop speaking all together and just stare at my speaker and press the start button and let Bob speak for me.
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Merry Christmas to me y’all.
If you want to look at this picture playing Bob Dylan’s Christmas album, that’s cool.
Merry Christmas! Would you like to play a 2-hour-long show of offbeat and vintage Christmas music, with Bob Dylan as your DJ? You’re in luck! Here is Dylan’s 2006 Christmas show from “Theme Time Radio Hour,” his late-’00s program on Sirius. The playlist — posted here — runs from Leadbelly to ’50s mambo to Johnny Paycheck singing “Jingle Bells.” (But none of Dylan’s own recordings). Along the way Dylan tells jokes and historical tidbits, answers e-mail from listeners and gives out his recipe for figgy pudding. (Download the show here.)
Merry Christmas to me everybody.
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life:
It was fifty years ago today that Bob Dylan had his first recording session at Columbia Records. Dylan was backup harmonica for folk singer Caroline Hester — It was shortly after that Dylan was offered his own deal with Columbia.
see more — Bob Dylan: The Early Days
No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
I don’t say it enough, but Bob, there isn’t anything that I can’t get through when I listen to you. No matter what life brings me, no matter what complicated emotional turmoils I’m wrestling with, no matter what fortuitous moments I may encounter, I know that just by listening to you, everything makes sense. You don’t bring out the best in me, you bring out the essence of me.
There really is nothing better than coming home from a great party and just sitting in bed with my dad listening to Bob Dylan and talking about music. It’s these moments that will always be engraved in my memory, never wavering. I can’t wait for the day when I’ll be able to instill in my children the love and passion of music. If I don’t say it enough, thank you daddy.
When things get tough, when I get upset or confused or angry or sad, when I feel like things are out of my control, when I feel like things are within my control but I’m too weak and scared to handle them, I turn to you, and I don’t feel as crappy as I did right before I clicked “play”.
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright”
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