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...know that. If you've been listening only in passing, you know, among other things, that the answer's blowin' in the wind, the times they are achangin', everybody must get stoned, they're selling postcards of the hanging, and that to live outside the law you must be honest. Later, listening more closely, you found out that we're goin' all the way till the wheels fall off and burn, that dignity's never been photographed, and that no one plays the blues like Blind Willie McTell...
...times, they have been achangin', just as he said they would 23 years ago. This summer the Woodstock generation met the yuppie generation, as people who grew up with Bob Dylan and those barely out of their teens crowded into arenas, stadiums and concert halls across the country for the raspy-voiced troubadour's True Confessions show. By the time the tour ended last week, an estimated 1 million people had heard him and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform nearly a quarter-century of Dylan's songs, from the vintage Masters of War through the rock anthem Like a Rolling...
...good the VCR is out there. I see first-run theaters as becoming the 'loss leader' for the VCR, like hard-cover books for the paperback industry or a tuna special for the grocery store." Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) is even more emphatic: "The times they are achangin'. We should ride the technical and social evolution and speak to the medium most preferred. If the dinosaurs don't like it, too bad for them...
Perhaps the album's most startling moment is hearing the prophet who once sang Masters of War and The Times They Are AChangin' now croon his way like Bing Crosby into a classic from the 1930s...
Rank at the Top. Nina's hip style is not pure jazz, pure blues or pure anything. Rather, it is a swinging, soulful, infectious blend of every conceivable style that has come out of the "music of my people." Opening the Philadelphia program with The Times They Are AChangin, she made Bob Dylan's classic folk tune sound like a revivalist hymn; yet she never lost any of its satiric bite. At the Metropolitan, Langston Hughes' Backlash Blues had an angular, hard-rock quality that pointed up its bitter message: "Do you think that all colored people...
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