A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Red House Records
Soundtracks:
- Love Minus Zero/No Limit - Eliza Gilkyson
- Sweetheart Like You - Guy Davis
- Clothes Line Saga - Suzzy & Maggie Roche
- Girl Of the North Country - John Gorka
- Delia - Spider John Koerner & Dave Ray
- I Want You - Cliff Eberhardt
- All Along The Watchtower - Tom Landa & The Paperboys
- Dieu a Nos Cotes (With God On Our Side) - Hart-Rouge
- Boots Of Spanish Leather - Martin Simpson
- Restless Farewell - Norman Blake & Peter Ostroushko
- It Ain't Me, Babe - Lucy Kaplansky
- Pledging My Time - Greg Brown
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Rosalie Sorrels
- Intro To Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Free Music Notes for A Nod to Bob: An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on His Sixtieth Birthday
Free Music Review: Red House Records within the rhythm sea of legacy- Dylan.
Hit: 5 Stars
This is ... good. A heartfelt and honest rendering of Dylan's work. From the first line sung by Eliza Gilkyson, you know you're stuck inside somehting special, so you ease your body down and push off from the shore. Letting the breeze of the day mix you within the rhythm sea of legacy. You hear the traditional roots that Dylan has always honored, here with "Delia," to the deep blues that's given to "Sweetheart Like You" by Guy Davis. An interpretation that gets intestines quivering within the Delta, where the legacy of the whip echoes like the heat of sunset over the Mississippi River. The blues rise again with Greg Brown doing "Pledging My Time." The dirge is done so masterfully that wherever you're listening becomes someplace else. It becomes a roadside bar, where the ticks upon the clock have changed from noontime to midnight. Themes of love, loss, and bitterness are here. Cliff Eberhardt slows down the rhythm of "I Want You" to where you can hear- can actually hear the thoughts of a wanting and pondering heart. "Boots of Spanish Leather is a song without a chorus or a hook. It's a tale of correspondence and separation that needs listening, and Martin Simpson gets you to listen. Lucy Kaplansky doesn't even attempt the biting sneer of intensity that's heard in Dylan's "It Ain' Me, Babe." Her interpretation is straight forward, saying, no, sorry, but, "It ain't me, you're lookin' for, babe." It was a pleasure to see Norman Blake included here. He has always been a personal favorite. Blake and Peter Ostroushko team up on "Restless Farewell" and strike chords, getting a person to twitch and reflect on restless farewells.
These songs live, pulsating like the birth of a new season. And since it's May, catch a whiff of flowers blooming as the snow melts from high mountain tops to flow into streams, the into rivers to the sea. That's just like a Dylan song, there is a continuum here, flowing into the sea- the rhythm sea of legacy.
The French version of "With God On Our Side," by Hart-Rouge is haunting. The song may be considered a period piece, but still lives and that's why it's haunting. Read the words, then juxtaposition them into today's world. "But I learned to accept it/ Accept it with pride/ For you don't count the dead/ When God's on your side." Tom Landa and The Paperboys add a Celtic tinge to "All Along The Watchtower." Listen, feel the urgency echo like thunder and lightening. Feel the rhythm and the words emanate into your own world. You feel it because a poet makes you feel, and Dyaln surely does that. Listen again, can you hear two riders approaching? Can you hear the wind beginning to howl?
Listening to this album truly submerges a person- soaking them within the rhythm sea of words and phrases, while the breeze rustles the grasp of everday into the realm of imagination, and yet... And yet, the words remain so firmly entrenched in everyday life. The everyday of simple occurrences is here with Suzzy and Maggie Roche's rendition of "Clothes Line Saga." And John Gorka gives us the everyday of place and memory with "Girl of the North Country." In a world where memory has been replaced by instant gratification, it's good to be reminded against forgetting.
I agree with the thoughts of Rosalie Sorrels about songs being reinterpreted, with meanings being juggled by personal, emotional, and social perceptions. Her interpretation of "Tomorrow is a Long Time" has sparked a new flame for "If today was not an endless highway." Today is an endless highway, and art is a constant and evolutionary companion of that road.
Ramblin' Jack Elliot ends it off by bringing it all back home. Brings it back with the connection to Woody Guthrie. Elliot was know as the son of Woody Guthrie. Subsequently, as Dylan learned from Elliot, he was called the son of Jack and the grandson of Woody. What's especially good about this album, is the wide range of musical styles that show an expanding expanse. Turn around and look at the horizon. See it getting wider and richer. It's against forgetting where it came from. So, walk forward backwards.
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