Eating Sardines with the Everly Brothers
In 1960 I was an eight year old boy with a teenage sister who watched American Bandstand every day after school and had a Tele-Tone 45 rpm portable record player in her bedroom. With a big fat plastic spindle, she would stack up to about a dozen records and it
The Real Roy Orbison Story
Roy Orbison once said, “people often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to remembered.” If Orbison could look back these almost-30 years now after his death (on Dec. 6, 1988), he’d discover that he’s been more than
Dan Tyminski on Tradition and Taking Risks
Dan Tyminski comes from Rutland, VT, where he was born in 1967 and grew up listening to bluegrass music with his dad. Rutland would seem a strange place for the birthplace of one of bluegrass music’s central musicians, but only to people unfamiliar with the paths followed by bluegrass
Stop The Clouds
STOP THE CLOUDS
A review of Barney Hoskyns’ new book, ‘Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock’.
Isis
Issue 184
February/March 2016
pages 35-36
‘Small Town Talk’ by Barney Hoskyns is a love story. For Woodstock is not merely
Beyond an Angel's Art
Beyond an angel's art:
Bob Dylan’s voice, his vocal styles, delivery, and the oral tradition of storytelling through song.
In August of 2017, ISIS magazine published an article by Tara Zuk, discussing Bob Dylan's voice.
Reference:
Zuk, Tara. "Beyond an angel's art:
A Short Life Of Trouble/'True Dylan' (1987) by Sam Shepard: Bob Dylan, Jimmy Yancey et al
A Short Life of Trouble (or True Dylan) is a one-act play that features only two characters - Sam and Bob. It was first published in Esquire in 1987 and can be seen as a dramatized short 'interview' between Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan, focussing mainly upon Dylan&