Thursday, March 6, 2014

KLEM FM

I'm surprised that no one big has covered this Dylan song. But it is from "that" 1979 album. Mark Knopfler plays guitar on it. They toured together a year or so ago when I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl.

 
Bob Dylan - Precious Angel by butterflyah

11 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The song cut off to play an ad... it did gave me the choice to skip it.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

a theory...

Dylan got other artist to cover his songs by recording them so... what's the word I'm looking for? 'alternately' (ugly) that they may have felt they were rescuing the song. thereby getting the best out of those artists... I'm supposing that more artistry, artistic effort, goes into performing something of your own as opposed to something somebody hands you, something that somebody else wrote.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Or maybe he didn't set out to do that premeditatedly. it just happened on it's own as a result of people acting on their best interest.

Dylan sang them out of a repudiation, protest... who knows.

Hitchens wrote a book about him. He probably wrote about it.

chickelit said...

Hitchens wrote a book about him. He probably wrote about it

I didn't know that, Lem.

Hitchens is a voice I could probably learn to do.

sakredkow said...
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sakredkow said...

Dylan's covers are really great, too. It's rare he if he doesn't make it better or show more to the song than the original artist.

john said...

Lem -

Can you provide the name of the Hitchens book or essay on Dylan?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Upon further review, it looks like I may have gotten Hitchens confused with another Christopher...

Dylan’s Visions of Sin

I was mistaken.

chickelit said...

Kudos to Lem for the proper response and retracting.

It's rare in the blogosphere where being wrong is seen as being weak -- that is falsetto machismo.

chickelit said...

But still -- assuming I can master the voice -- who is up to writing posthumous lines for Hitchens?

deborah said...

I give it a 93, it has a good beat and you can dance to it :)