Word: wesley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long and sad road from Desolation Row to nashville's skyline, but when a man is all but destroyed physically, emotionally and artistically you can't expect him to rebound in a few easy steps. Most of us lost touch with Bob Dylan about the time of John Wesley Harding, released just prior to a motorcycle accident that warped his whole development. Planet Waves came out a few months ago, and brought little cause for rejoicing. But Blood on The Tracks, his newest album, seems to be a symbol of Dylan's long-hoped-for recovery, like a medical sign...
...upwards, giving the song a solid feeling and making the long, wordy lines seem to rise and fall in a grand rhythm. Dylan's voice on Blood on The Tracks is somewhere between the hard rasp of his classic period and the mellower country tones he affected after John Wesley Harding. The new combination isn't entirely successful--the way he whines "I--yeh--dee--aht Wind" is annoying and he hasn't yet recaptured the superb compromise of John Wesley Harding where he found a country voice that could express his urbane lyrics...
...more uneven quality than the movie. The creative, at times even poignant, animation sequences of the film are replaced by music arranged by Neil Innes, once the presiding Bonzo of the Bonzo Dog Band. The music is catchy in its own right, including stirring versions of John Wesley's setting of Blake's "And Did Those Feet," and the original classics "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" (with a chorus of Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the background), "Eric the Half-a-Bee" and "The Lupin Express...
Cohen's efforts have met some professorial resistance. "I may be a little snobbish," sniffs Professor John Cantel-on, "but I don't think you are necessarily going to turn a Caspar Milquetoast with a Ph.D. into a scintillating lecturer." Adds Religion Professor J. Wesley Robb: "What happens to learning when a class becomes enamored of an actor...
...Wesley E. Profit '69 is a teaching fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department...