Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic
As he turns 80, don’t be fooled by his serious music. From the start, his work has been filled with a cockeyed humor that can range from corny jokes to dark wit.
Dylan in 1965, the year he released “On the Road Again,” a masterpiece of giddy nonsense.Credit. H. Thompson/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive; via Getty Images
May 24, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET
At the end of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the Coen brothers movie set in the Greenwich Village music scene of 1961, the title character, a gifted but struggling folk singer on the verge of giving up, leaves the stage of the fabled Gaslight Café as a newcomer fills his spot. What’s clear after the first note is that it’s Bob Dylan at the start of one of the greatest careers in pop music
All 141 George Harrison Solo Songs Ranked Worst to Best
George Harrison s music, much like the former Beatles star himself, tended toward both the uplifting and the downbeat. Often in one song.
He relished taking the fight to liars, thieves, the unprincipled, politicians, record-label execs and other such scoundrels. But he also celebrated the light that surrounds it all and never stopped searching for the most personal kind of inner peace.
That s why he was initially attracted to Phil Spector – a producer who couldn t fathom a record without a cast of thousands – but also a Beatles-loving imitator in Jeff Lynne. They represented both of Harrison s musical impulses, as his essential dichotomies played out on vinyl.
All 141 George Harrison Solo Songs Ranked Worst to Best
George Harrison s music, much like the former Beatles star himself, tended toward both the uplifting and the downbeat. Often in one song.
He relished taking the fight to liars, thieves, the unprincipled, politicians, record-label execs and other such scoundrels. But he also celebrated the light that surrounds it all and never stopped searching for the most personal kind of inner peace.
That s why he was initially attracted to Phil Spector – a producer who couldn t fathom a record without a cast of thousands – but also a Beatles-loving imitator in Jeff Lynne. They represented both of Harrison s musical impulses, as his essential dichotomies played out on vinyl.
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Here you’ll find him rummaging through the skip and finding ‘The Folk songs of Morley’, or, maybe not…
I learned about this geezer, Mik, from my new mate, gas-engineer supremo, Zaal. He told me:
“…this guy’s like Frank Zappa…a people’s poet…Iggy Pop raved about him at Glastonbury.”
In fact, Iggy Pop chose the song ‘Sweet Leaf of the North’ as his number one song of the last decade on American radio station NPR, and played tracks from Mik on a BBC Radio 6 program he hosted.
Essentially, Mik is a raconteur, a story-teller, artist – another fine British Griot… To find out what he and the Ego Trip are up to during and after the Covid restrictions, check out: https://www.mikartistik.com/news