Word: dylan
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When he decided to escape the muggy Memphis heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into a cozy old house in town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park...
HOSPITALIZED. BOB DYLAN, 56, folk-rock's seminal poet; for a potentially fatal fungal infection, histoplasmosis...
Harvard should strive to produce an event akin to Brown's Spring Weekend, a four-day affair that takes over the campus and this year featured a block party, carnival booths, jousting match, karaoke, Slip and Slide and performances by Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley, among others. Still, in its current incarnation, Springfest is not worth our time, effort or money. There must be something better...
...life-style accessories? The equivalent of cigars for the brain? Several liquor firms have taken to sponsoring literary evenings at which prospective single-malt-Scotch buyers clink glasses with budding novelists. The association of booze and books is long, close and infamously troubled (would a stumbling William Faulkner or Dylan Thomas be welcome at such a gathering?), but the distilleries don't seem fazed. Nor do the clubbable, complicit writers...
...attended the Acid Test Festivals with Ken Kesey in the early '60s, appeared on film with Bob Dylan and publicly protested the Vietnam...