These are our 5 most popular Bob Dylan posts in November.
1. Bob Dylan: 10 concert videos you MUST see from the 90’s
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Best albums of 2014 according to Uncut Magazine & American Songwriter
Two more end-year lists.
Uncut & American Songwriter are my two favorite music magazines & their 2014 lists are good.
Alldylan.com will post our end-year lists sometime in December.
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Johnny Cash: 10 best songs recorded @ SUN Studio
“The Sun recordings maximized the effective contrast between the hustling rhythm of the bass and acoustic guitar and the ponderous, sparse vocals & lead guitar. Phillips achievement was to keep Cash’s sound at it’s bare essentials, an then fatten it up with the use of slapback echo. Subsequent producers and engineers could never quite recapture that formula. .. Johnny Cash’s three years of recordings for Sun are a wonderful demonstration of just how far a whole can outclass the sum of it’s parts”
~Colin Escott & Martin Hawkins (Good Rockin’ Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock ‘N’ Roll)
I’m visiting SUN Studio again i January, and will post a series of SUN/STAX/Memphis related articles the coming months. This is the first one.
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Best albums of 2014 according to MOJO & Q Magazine
The end-year lists are starting to pop up. We all love lists, not just our own lists.
As last year I will post end-year lists from some magazine’s, here two from QA Magazine & MOJO Magazine.
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Townes Van Zandt: His 11 best songs
Marie she didn’t wake up this morning
She didn’t even try
She just rolled over and went to Heaven
My little boy safe insideI laid them in the sun where somebody’d find them
Caught a Chesapeak on the fly
Marie will know I’m headed south
So’s to meet me by and byMarie will know I’m headed south
So to meet me by and by– Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt is one of the greatest songwriters in music-history. To narrow down my choice to just 11 songs is a pain. His 9 studio albums, and some compilations released after his death in 97 are so full of great songs that my task has been nearly impossible. I could pick 11 other songs in his songbook that are just as good, but today this is my list.
Marie:
Kurt Wolff (allmusic):
Townes Van Zandt’s music doesn’t jump up and down, wear fancy clothes, or beat around the bush. Whether he was singing a quiet, introspective country-folk song or a driving, hungry blues, Van Zandt’s lyrics and melodies were filled with the kind of haunting truth and beauty that you knew instinctively. His music came straight from his soul by way of a kind heart, an honest mind, and a keen ear for the gentle blend of words and melody. He could bring you down to a place so sad that you felt like you were scraping bottom, but just as quickly he could lift your spirits and make you smile at the sparkle of a summer morning or a loved one’s eyes — or raise a chuckle with a quick and funny talking blues. The magic of his songs is that they never leave you alone.