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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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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Bob Dylan’s best songs: Simple Twist Of Fate
[Simple Twist Of Fate] conjures the smell of the air on an early spring morning… Dylan on this album has become a master of textures. “Simple Twist of Fate” unmistakably creates the time, holds it, breathes it in, and stops it; the tools it uses to accomplish this arc storytelling, imagery, phrasing, timing, vocal texture, rhyme, melody, and ensemble sound. The bass playing (content, timing, attack) is revelatory. The harmonica solos sum up the song’s essence and push it out to the furthest corners of the universe.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)
As ‘Girl From The North Country’ had been triggered by the breakup with Suze Rotolo, casting him back to an older affair, so ‘Simple Twist Of Fate’ set him reflecting not on Sara, but on Suze – hence the song’s subtitle in the notebook, ‘4th Street Affair’.
~Clinton Heylin (Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, . 1974-2008)
@ #49 on my list of Bob Dylan’s 200 best songs.
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The Best Songs: Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)
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It’s four in the morning, the end of December
I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better
New York is cold, but I like where I’m living
There’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
–The problem with that song is that I’ve forgotten the actual triangle. Whether it was my own – of course, I always felt that there was an invisible male seducing the woman I was with, now whether this one was incarnate or merely imaginary I don’t remember, I’ve always had the sense that either I’ve been that figure in relation to another couple or there’d been a figure like that in relation to my marriage. I don’t quite remember but I did have this feeling that there was always a third party, sometimes me, sometimes another man, sometimes another woman. It was a song I’ve never been satisfied with. It’s not that I’ve resisted an impressionistic approach to songwriting, but I’ve never felt that this one, that I really nailed the lyric. I’m ready to concede something to the mystery, but secretly I’ve always felt that there was something about the song that was unclear. So I’ve been very happy with some of the imagery, but a lot of the imagery.
~Leonard Cohen (BBC Radio Interview 1994)Sometime in the early 1970s, a thief stole Leonard Cohen’s old raincoat from Marianne Ihlen’s New York apartment. God only know what happened to it, but the thief almost certainly had no idea he was stealing an object that belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, if not the Smithsonian. It was that very coat that inspired Cohen to write one of his most beloved and mysterious songs. It’s written in the form of a letter, possibly to the narrator’s brother, who stole his lover, Jane.
~rollingstone.com
Famous Blue Raincoat (from the album – Songs of Love and Hate)
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