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James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn, previously as Jim McGuinn, and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds’ records. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with The Byrds.
P.S. – Greetings, stoger đ
Bob. On a bike. In Bratislava.
http://www.cas.sk/minigallery/196588?foto=0
Interesting outfit he has on, including the wig.
Merritt Badge
by Ben Greenman (The New Yorker)
June 14, 2010Tift Merritt was, for a few years, the bearer of a proud tradition of distaff country soul that reaches back to artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry. After the promising dĂ©but âBramble Rose,â in 2002, Merritt released a pair of albums produced by George Drakoulias. Though best known for his work with bands like the Black Crowes and the Jayhawks, Drakoulias also worked with Maria McKee, the former Lone Justice front woman, and it was McKeeâs sound and sensibility that he used as a template for Merrittâs records. This was a good thing, all around: songs like âStray Paperâ found Merritt pushing harder into the heart of American soul music, complete with a horn section and gospel-tinged vocals, and the proceedings had the feeling of a celebration.
For âSee You on the Moonâ (Fantasy), her fourth studio album, producing duties have been assumed by Tucker Martine, and the difference is immediately apparent. Martine, whose partner is the singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, was born in Nashville, where his father was a successful country songwriter, but his sensibilities, both as a producer and as a recording artist, tend toward indie rock (he has worked with artists like the Decembrists, Sufjan Stevens, and Spoon). What that means, in short, is fewer horns, more strings, less energetic clutter, and more emphasis on Merrittâs beautiful vocals and moving, if occasionally sentimental, songwriting. âThe Things That Everybody Does,â with its almost documentary philosophy of love, plays like a modern take on Judy Collins. âFeel of the World,â which features backing vocals from Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, has a calm, confident sweep reminiscent of U2âs more meditative moments. âMixtapeâ is a winningly unwieldy tribute to the cassette-borne love letter. The title track sounds like a lost Emmylou Harris classic. And Merrittâs cover of Kenny Logginsâs âDannyâs Songâ (you may not recognize the title, but you surely know the songâitâs the one with the chorus that goes âEven though we ainât got money / Iâm so in love with you, honeyâ) is hushed and intimate, with a melancholy shading of steel guitar.
If there is a problem, itâs that Martine can produce too tastefully; a song like âLive Till You Die,â which doesnât have the complexity of some of the other material, canât get by on energy alone. But itâs short, and soon enough the record has moved along to the funky, menacing âPapercut.â Nothing on the album overstays its welcome, and in the days of the bloated mega-opus (Billy Corgan is attempting to revive Smashing Pumpkins by releasing a forty-four-song album across eleven EPs) that kind of modest assurance should be rewarded.
Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said, âJump right inâ
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin
Anâ like a fool I mixed them
Anâ it strangled up my mind
Anâ now people just get uglier
Anâ I have no sense of time
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end?
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again.
đA happy belated 69th(!) birthday to the Bobster. How could I have let that day slip by? đł
Some of these revelations are pretty pedestrian, but what the hay…69 Things You Didnât Know About Bob Dylan
Monday May 24, 2010 by Margaret EbyOn this day in 1941 at 9:05 p.m., little Bobby Zimmerman â a.k.a. His Dylanness â was born. Earn your degree in Dylanology with our primer on unexpected Bobster trivia, featuring one fact for each of his 69 years. Donât think twice!
1. Before he renamed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly went by Elston Gunn.
2. Dylanâs father, Abe, was a semi-professional baseball player before he contracted polio in his early twenties.
3. According to Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles: The Biography, it was Dylan who first introduced the Fab Four to marijuana.
4. The phrase next to Robert Zimmermanâs picture in the 1959 Hibbing High School Yearbook was âTo join Little Richard.â
5. Dylanâs first professional recording was as a harmonica player at a Harry Belafonte session.
6. His great-grandfather and uncles owned the biggest movie theaters in Hibbing, Minnesota, allowing a young Dylan to watch films for free.
7. After seeing Rebel Without a Cause, Dylan became obsessed with James Dean.
8. In 10th grade, Dylan and his back-up band were rejected from a high school talent show because the student council judged his performance at the audition too shocking.
9. Before he flunked out of the University of Minnesota, Dylan pledged to the fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu.
10. In college, Dylan was known for scamming his friends out of cigarettes and articles of clothing.
11. In 1960, Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers tried to get the manager of a Denver club to kick Dylan off the bill, complaining that his voice was awful.
12. During his days in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Dylan became a chess fiend.
13. When Dylan met girlfriend Suze Rotoloâs mother, Mary, he lied and told her that he had a degenerative eye disease that would eventually lead him to go blind, earning him Maryâs eternal distrust.
14. Bob Dylan appeared with Joni Mitchell on the first episode of The Johnny Cash Show.
15. When he was first signed to Columbia Records, Dylan conned his way out of a stipulation that required his parents to sign (at 20, Dylan was considered a minor at the time) by convincing John Hammond that he was an orphan.
16. Suze Rotoloâs pet names for Dylan were âthe Pigâ and âRAZ.â
17. When a CBS censor informed him that he couldnât play âTalkinâ John Birch Paranoid Bluesâ on The Ed Sullivan Show, Dylan refused to go on.
18. Dylanâs first major appearance on American television was on The Steve Allen Show in 1964. When Dylan announced that he was playing the song âHattie Caroll,â only one audience member clapped in recognition.
19. In 2004, Dylan earned an honorary doctorate in music from the University of St. Andrews.
20. The only other honorary degree Dylan has accepted was in 1970 from Princeton.
21. Last year, Dylan was detained by the police in New Jersey after a homeowner spotted him wandering around a residential block in the rain.
22. During Dylanâs 1965 tour of England, reporters swarmed the singer at Heathrow. They were so entranced by Dylan that Lena Horne, then an enormous British celebrity, passed by the gaggle of photographers unnoticed.
23. The first time Donovan and Bob Dylan met, Dylan and his entourage all wore Halloween masks.
24. Dylanâs first draft of âLike a Rolling Stoneâ was six pages long.
25. His first wife, Sara Lownds, worked as a Playboy bunny.
26. One night at Maxâs Kansas City, Dylan and his road manager, Bob Neuwirth, insulted The Rolling Stonesâ Brian Jones until Jones broke down in tears.
27. Dylan struck up a short-lived friendship with Tiny Tim, who Dylan recorded singing âLike a Rolling Stoneâ while strumming the ukulele.
28. He appeared in the 1973 Sam Peckinpah film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as a drifter named Alias.
29. Kris Kristofferson was the custodian at the studio where Dylan recorded Nashville Skyline.
30. Aside from song-writing, Dylan is also a prolific painter. The cover of his 1970 Self Portrait is his own painting.
31. After his friend Phil Ochs died, Dylan took to polishing off a fifth of bourbon a day.
32. Pauline Kael called Dylanâs film Renaldo & Clara âwhat Louis and Marie Antoinette might have done at Versailles if only theyâd had the cameras.â
33. According to Nico, Edie Sedgwick was the subject of âLeopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.â
34. From around 1960 to 1964, Dylanâs preferred intoxicants were pot and Beaujolais.
35. After Dylanâs 1966 motorcycle accident, Allen Ginsberg brought him a box full of books to aid his recovery.
36. In the summer of 1970, Dylan was briefly involved in the production of a musical version of The Devil and Daniel Webster with poet Archibald MacLeish but backed out when he and MacLeish didnât see eye to eye.
37. At John Prineâs second gig outside of Chicago ever, Dylan showed up to play backup harmonica.
38. The original title of Planet Waves was Ceremonies of the Horsemen.
39. The first words Dylan spoke to playwright Sam Shepard, who Dylan had hired to write scenes for the movie Eat the Document, were âWe donât have to make any connections. None of this has to connect.â
40. Shepard and Dylan cowrote a 12-minute song called âBrownsville Girlâ based on the Gregory Peck film The Gunfighter. Dylan has only played it in concert once.
41. After Elvis died, Dylan didnât speak to anyone for a week.
42. In 1978, Dylan took a three-month course at the Vineyard School of Discipleship as part of his conversion to born-again Christianity.
43. An offhand comment Dylan made at Live Aid inspired Willie Nelson to organize Farm Aid.
44. During his satellite radio hour, Bob Dylan covered a verse of LL Cool Jâs âMama Said Knock You Out.â
45. Dylan toured with the Grateful Dead for six shows in 1987.
46. Bruce Springsteen inducted Bob Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
47. The Traveling Wilburys started when Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, and Jeff Lynne recorded a Harrison B-side called âHandle with Careâ at Dylanâs house in Malibu.
48. The Pulitzer Prize committee gave Dylan a special citation in 2008 for âlyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.â
49. In 2001, Dylan received an Academy Award for his song âThings Have Changed,â featured in the film Wonder Boys. According to rumor, Dylan often props his Oscar up on the speakers when heâs playing.
50. Since 1988, as part of his âNever-Ending Tour,â Bob Dylan has played at least 100 concerts per year.
51. Dylan starred in a 1987 box-office flop Hearts on Fire as a rock star turned farmer.
52. When Dylan performed for Pope John Paul II in 1997, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (the current Pope Benedict), tried to stop Dylan from playing.
53. âRainy Day Women #12 & 35âł was recorded in one take.
54. Joni Mitchell recently revealed a giant grudge against Dylan.
55. In 1999, Dylan appeared on an episode of Dharma & Greg.
56. Seinfeld veteran Larry Charles directed Dylanâs 2003 film Masked & Anonymous.
57. Dylan has played shows in supported of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect of Judaism.
58. During a cross-country trip in 1964, Dylan showed up at Carl Sandburgâs doorstep and handed the poet a copy of The Times They Are A-Changinâ.
59. At the release party for Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylanâs table included guests Bette Midler and David Bowie.
60. Dylanâs experimental novel, Tarantula, was published in 1971.
61. When he was in high school, his standard order at the local luncheonette was cherry pie ĂĄ la mode.
62. Patti Smith and Dylan toured together briefly in 1995.
63. He also appeared in a 2004 Victoriaâs Secret commercial.
64. Weird Al Yankovic did a song entirely of palindromes called âBobâ that was styled on âSubterranean Homesick Blues.â
65. Dylanâs younger brother, David Zimmerman, is a record producer.
66. Dylan has nine grandchildren and sports a bumper sticker on his car that reads âWorldâs Greatest Grandpa.â
67. Dylan got the idea for some of the lyrics for his album Love and Theft from the book Confessions of a Yakuza.
68. Last year, Dylan released an album of Christmas songs entitled Christmas In the Heart, which includes a sped-up, Dylanized version of âMust Be Santa.â
69. In February, Dylan braved a blizzard to perform at a civil rights concert at the White House.
Thanks for that post, Tim. Hope you’re doing well.
“And when he did speak, it was cryptic and weird.”
It would concern me more if NEIL! were not cryptic and weird đ
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/cd_reviews/articles/2010/04/19/roky_erickson_true_love_cast_out_all_evil/
Has anyone given a listen, yet, to Roky’s collaboration with Okkervil River?
It’s on my list…*sigh* Our little girl is growing up *sniff*
She’s got some Cat Power bangs going on there, LWj
Time to toss out a few Led Zep covers, Erika! (just for fun)Even tho’ Erika apparently is NEVER coming to my territory, I’m still loyal enough to bump her to the top of this pile.
