Word: dylan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dylan R. Matthews ’12 said the blog will ask questions that hold candidates’ feet to the fire, such as “Do you actually have a plan to do that...
...album—the protagonist tries to off himself. Beginning with 20 seconds of warring barebone guitar riffs, the song seems to settle into the traditional Travis formula of Healy’s voice over rhythmic guitar and piano. However, the song explodes as Healy, channeling Bob Dylan, belts out the story of J. Smith’s intended suicide: “Oh the mould has been cast / The radio’s in the bath / Yeah yeah yeah.” The song soars up into an ethereal, polyphonic Latin chorale reciting Smith’s sad tale...
...11th year of his third (or is it his fourth?) creative peak, it’s pointless to talk about Bob Dylan outside of the context of the shadow he casts over the American musical landscape. The man is an institution, and, if he lives another 67 years, it goes without saying that critics will keep on leaning over one another to hear what new and indivisible truths he’s plucked from the ether and placed in his music. His last album, the vibrant and meditative “Modern Times,” cemented yet another victorious...
Acts like Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Hecuba, and Sufjan Stevens—a whole family of contemporary musicians of congenial tastes, really—are both obsessed with Karen Dalton and indebted to her. Bob Dylan called her his “favorite singer in the place” in his autobiography. So why do so few know about...
...those anecdote- and detail-obsessed music enthusiasts—those who pride themselves on their familiarity with every Dylan bootleg in existence or every reference to Tupac’s untimely death on every album he ever released—elliptical statements like this can allow the listener to imagine whatever biography they deem most fitting for her. Given that so little is known about her, and no recorded interviews with her exist, there is little to check or discourage such extrapolations...