Word: biographic
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...your love slave, and nobody else should either. It's a rancor most people have felt after an affair goes sour, but was rarely set to music. Dylan started doing it, and kept doing it. In the liner notes for the three-disc set Biograph, he told Cameron Crowe that the 1966 song "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" was "Probably written after some disappointing relationship, where, you know, I was lucky to have escaped without a broken nose." Moral: Never piss off a poet; he'll have the last word, and in public...
...Biograph, a handily priced ($30) five-record retrospective of Dylan's career, is a heady reminder of his importance, the sort of overview usually given only to artists entering their eighth decade or ones who have met an untimely end. Dylan, however, released his 29th album, Empire Burlesque, in June, and, on that evidence, is still working at full power. So Columbia Records' release of Biograph puts him into a unique position: he is competing with himself, and is stacked up against his own past besides. No wonder he has professed mixed feelings about the Biograph project and took...
...down for a garrulous, disarming interview with Screen writer-Journalist Cameron Crowe that fills a 36-page booklet and spills over onto both sides of the five record sleeves. He also talked to TIME (see following story), and with Dylan, interviews can be as deft as his musical performances. Biograph contains 53 songs, some of them standards like Mr. Tambourine Man and Lay Lady Lay, others more recent material like Every Grain of Sand and a relatively obscure scorcher, Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar. The songs are arranged by contrast and casual association, not chronologically, and the ordering...
...Biograph. It wasn't my idea to put the record out. I haven't sat down and listened to it. Even when I make a record, I listen to it once or twice before it's out, and then once it's out, I don't really listen to it anymore. I didn't really take a hand in this because my enthusiasm for making records might not be what it was 20 years ago, I don't know...