Another side of Bob Dylan, self-confessed nerd, leaves fans gaspin’ in the wind

The Times ^ | October 9, 2004 | Chris Ayres

[Boxsford]

I was looking for a CD to play this morning and actually came across 'Blood on the Tracks'. Tangled up in Blue' was first....it sounds like someone had a bit too much caffeine when they put it together. I liked how 'Simple Twist of Fate' sounded. I admit I haven't been able to get past his voice to appreciate his words and meaning.

I read this on the Blood on the Tracks CD cover about Dylan.....that last line would make a great tag line: "...and here is Dylan, bringing feeling back home. In this album, he is as personal and as universal as Yeats or Blake; speaking for himself, risking that dangerous opening of veins, he speaks for us all. The words,the music, the tone of voice speak of regret, melancholy,.... some rage,and a sense of simple joy.......And his poetry, his troubadour's traveling art, seems to me to be more meaningful than ever. I thought listening to these songs, of the words of Yeats, walker of the roads of Ireland: "We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

[PureSolace]

Man, every time I read about Dylan and his new book, it makes me actually wanna go out and read it. :)

[xp38]

Ole Bob should write Talkin Wooden Leg Factory Blues. I think that would be cool.