Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before his death in a plane crash last December. One of his catchiest and most reflective songs, it has none of the torrential outbursts and piston rhythms with which he electrified his audiences from Paris to Monterey during his brief reign as the crown prince of soul. But the album has other cuts of more typical pounding blues (I'm Coming Home and Don't Mess with Cupid), as well as some lighthearted badinage with Carla Thomas (Tramp...
...song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what I'm talking about or not." Typical of his personal and provocative imagery is Mac Arthur Park, from a briskly selling album that he has composed for Actor Richard Harris...
...number of major reviews of the album have said the music is Dylan's most important change. Notable was Jon Landau in the May issue of Craw-daddy!. He wrote: "On this album he is above all a musician, a singer, first, and in looking at how these over-all characteristics manifest themselves on the particular songs of the album it will help us to look especially at how Dylan is using his voice." Landau is too used to writing about rock sound. Dylan is always working on his message. The music helps him say it, but it's only...
Side two of the album is the straight side. Dylan isn't hiding anything. "I pity the poor immigrant when his gladness comes to pass," is the last line of a beautiful song that rings true as one of the most accurate social observations of our time. "And I do hope you receive it well depending on the way you feel that you've lived," is one of several great lines in Dear Landlord explaining a philosophy of interaction between two dependent individuals. There's the suggestion that Dylan is talking about his relation to God (the landlord...
...Dylan had copped out on politics, including the anti-war scene. But Dylan's message isn't with organizations. His message reaches its most advanced state of development in three songs he's written recently. One's in the middle of the first side of the new album; the other two he wrote for a couple of other groups...