This is our third Quiz and we’re now in 1961
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Classic Concert: Gunsmoke Blues
Classic Concert: Gunsmoke Blues with Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton and Big Joe Turner
By day, Link Wyler was a character actor who often appeared on TV Westerns, most notably Gunsmoke. By night, Wyler was a passionate blues fan, and in 1971, when he discovered that Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, and George “Harmonica” Smith would be making their way up the West Coast as part of a package tour, he persuaded several cameramen from Gunsmoke to pack up their camera equipment and sound gear and follow the tour for the weekend, catching up with them at a college gig in Oregon.
Gunsmoke Blues is the result, which features the long-lost footage from this weekend adventure, capturing these master blues artists in fine and funky form. Selections include “Got My Mojo Working,” “Long Distance Call,” and “Mannish Boy” Muddy Waters, “Shake, Rattle and Roll” Big Joe Turner, “Ball and Chain” Big Mama Thornton, and “Leaving Chicago” George “Harmonica” Smith.
This is a “must-see”! Just incredible all through.
Gunsmoke Blues (full concert):
Bob Dylan Quiz: 1941 – 1960
This is our second Bob Dylan quiz here at alldylan.com.
Last quiz was related to mid-june dates, and just a “test” quiz.
This is a “real” quiz related to Bob Dylan’s life from 1941 (birth) up to 1960.
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We got a lot of feedback about too short timelimit on the last quiz so I’ve adjusted it to 120s.
Bob Dylan Quiz 1 – June 6, 2015
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Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol 1 Mind Mapped – part 1
… to point out that Chronicles is designed to manipulate our perceptions is simply to affirm that it’s genuine Dylan. The book is an act, but a splendid one — his sense of strategy vis-a-vis his audience hasn’t been this keen in 30 years — and it’s a zesty, nugget-filled read. His assessments of other musicians are as acute as they are idiosyncratic, partly because (no great surprise here) he instinctively zeroes in on their personae in the guise of talking about their music, as in this jambalaya of observations about Roy Orbison: ”He kept you on your toes. With him, it was all about fat and blood. . . He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal.” Better still is a terse explanation of what separated Hank Williams from most 50’s country-and-western singers: ”There was nothing clownish about him.”
~Tom Carson (The New York Times Sunday Book Review)
| Author | Bob Dylan |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Bob Dylan |
| Genre | Autobiography Music |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
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Publication date
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October 5, 2004 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 304 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7432-2815-4 (first edition, hardcover) |
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