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20 Famous Figures in Bob Dylan Songs
As we hit "Dylan in a Day" part twenty, I would just like to take this milestone to cover twenty famous real-life figures in Bob Dylan songs. These people have to be referenced by name, mentioned at least once in the song and nothing else is needed of them. If they are overtly analysed then good for them, but if they are just used as a symbol then that's alright too.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
The Social Nightmare of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine"
When I first heard this song I was a teenager and the very first thing I got from it is that someone seriously does not want to be a part of this witch-hunt culture of people who are religious or believe in something that others are against. Bob Dylan, as we know is white, and there are a group of white people who witch-hunt others who are not like them as we all know. We won’t say their name since we don’t want to give them traction. But in this song, there is a clear want to separate the narrator from any time in which people would have done this by taking a historical perspective. Well, that’s just what I get from it.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
Dylan's Murder Most Foul
I didn't think about November 22, 1963 much yesterday, as I usually do on one of the worst anniversaries of my and maybe your lifetime, because I was busy with all kinds of other things, including doing a little virtual concert at Philcon (a science fiction convention) of songs from my new album, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time, my first new album in almost 50 years.
By Paul Levinson5 years ago in Beat
Maxwell LeVan: From SoundCloud to Platinum
Maxwell LeVan has made a name for himself as a record producer, vocalist, and songwriter. Maxwell grew up playing piano, but never took lessons or figured out how to read music. "I would hear a song on the radio and when I got home I was able to play it", he said. Maxwell has perfect pitch, an uncommon capacity of an individual to recognize or re-make a given musical note without the advantage of a reference tone. This occurs in only around 1 percent of artists. "It's weird, I don't understand the notes on paper, but when I hear them out loud it's like knowing red from blue." LeVan started autonomously studying music theory in April 2020, in an effort to further his knowledge of the technical aspect of composing a record.
By Robert Duran5 years ago in Beat
Taking a Journey Through Dark Heat Alone
Bob Dylan's song "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)" is often considered one of the best songs on the album "Street-Legal" and covers the journey that the narrator makes from one place to another whilst his woman is not with him. It is unknown whether she stays behind on purpose or she just gets up and leaves him entirely. But what is clear is that whenever he is meant to reach point B, she is not going to be there with him. This song is therefore not only about this journey that the narrator is taking, but the fact that he has to make it alone. There has been many other songs that Bob Dylan wrote about making journeys alone and without his lover so this is nothing new. The one thing that is different though is the way in which this song is put forward. Unlike Bob Dylan's previous, more structured and obviously folk songs, this song seems to add a little bit of soul in there as well, using the backing singers quite a bit to make the song more soulful, have more depth and have more atmosphere to it.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
9 Songs that need to be on EVERY Cardio playlist!
Does the thought of doing cardio strike fear into heart? or do you love the rush you get from a good hard run? Regardless of which side of the coin you are on, here are the top 9 tracks you need in your cardio playlist!
By Jesse Melanson5 years ago in Beat
(Emo)tional Work Out Release
Pain drives the greatest motivation. Especially true for when the cut is on our vulnerability. We want to be strong, but sometimes we like open up the scar to watch ourselves bleed. It lets us ourselves know we can still feel. We need an outlet in the throes of this revisited pain as one may be consumed by the feelings rather than redirected. My musical selection has worked for myself to utilize that pain as the ignition to fire up and power through harder, better than my previous self. It is a reminder of my past, a reliving my present, and it is my focus to change my future trajectory. It is a house of mirrors internal struggle of how I see myself through self-reflection, experience, and interaction with others. It is also my professional and personal relationships that left me pulled further out to sea with each wave of ridicule and current of judgment sweeping me away. Yet I still remain, and these songs are my life raft, my armor, and as well as my strength multiplier.
By Steven Lilley5 years ago in Beat
Sixteen Years: Bob Dylan's Run-Up to "Street-Legal"
Everyone knows that “Street-Legal” before “Time Out of Mind” is possibly Bob Dylan’s darkest and most intense album. It is properly dark and scary with some incredible apocalyptic lyrics. From the beginning of his career with his self-titled album, “Bob Dylan”, he has been consistent with his darkness though and honestly, I don’t think many people see this. I also think that this is because Bob Dylan has never really made it very much known except when he is actively portraying the atmosphere as dark and intense in itself as an active part of the narrative. Let us have a look at some of these songs back from when Bob Dylan released his self-titled album all the way through to “Street-Legal” and thus, that is sixteen years of songs.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
