And that the ladder of the law has no top and no bottom: Bob Dylan’s lyrics...
(HT: Bill Glennen) From the LA Times: On summer nights in the mid-1960s, while black-and-white television crackled elsewhere in his Staten Island home with news of Southern violence and Vietnam, Bobby...
View ArticleBob Dylan at 70- My top 20 Dylan songs. Today: 20-17
On May 24, 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70. Over the next 5 days, I will post my top 20 songs composed by Dylan, starting today with 20, 19, 18, and 17: 20. Every Grain of Sand (1981) 19. It Aint Me, Babe...
View ArticleBob Dylan at 70- My top 20 Dylan songs. Today: 16-13
On May 24, 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70. Between May 20 and May 24, I will post my top 20 songs composed by Dylan. Yesterday, I posted 20-17. Today, it’s 16-13: 16. Jokerman (1983) 15. Pressing On (1980)...
View ArticleBob Dylan at 70- My top 20 Dylan songs. Today: 12 through 9
On May 24, 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70. Between May 20 and May 24, I am posting my top 20 songs composed by Dylan. Here are the previous installments: 20-17 (May 20) and 16-13 (May 21). For today, May 22,...
View ArticleMy top 20 Bob Dylan songs. Today: 8 through 5 – (Dylan turns 70)
On May 24, 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70. Between May 20 and May 24, I am posting my top 20 songs composed by Dylan. Here are the previous installments:20-17 (May 20), 16-13 (May 21), and 12-9 (May 22). For...
View ArticleMy top 20 Bob Dylan songs. Today: 4 through 1 – (Dylan turns 70)
On May 24, 2011, Bob Dylan turns 70. Between May 20 and today, May 24, I am posting my top 20 songs composed by Dylan. Here are the previous installments: 20 through 17 (May 20), 16 through 13 (May...
View ArticleBob Dylan, still misunderstood by American liberals
So says Matthew Schmitz at First Things: Two days ago, Bob Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And once again we saw the tendency of American liberals to misunderstand a man who has...
View ArticleThe Rights of Error and the Death of Tolerance
That’s the title of my latest installment over at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew “You can’t open your mind, boys To every...
View ArticleStephen H. Webb: In Defense of Dylan’s Voice
Over at First Things, my friend, Steve Webb, offers an apologetic for Bob Dylan’s voice. Before you go there, you may want to listen to Zimmy, from a concert in Akron in April:
View ArticleGreat cover of Bob Dylan’s pro-Israel song, “Neighborhood Bully.”
The band is called “Daniel Israel and Blood on the Tracks.” The lyrics to the song follow: Neighborhood Bully (music and lyrics by Bob Dylan) Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man His enemies...
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