Bob Dylan: Real live at the White House [weather permitting] ...11:53 am
On Wednesday at 5:15 pm Eastern Time, the event titled “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement Concert” is scheduled to take place, and will be streamed live on the internet. The White House page devoted to the event is at this link. The live streaming will be offered on the page at this link.
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There’s also an embed code that people can put on their websites, as at the bottom of this post. For what it’s worth, I’ll post it again on the day. While the event will be broadcast on U.S. Public Television stations the following day, I assume that it will be edited down, so watching the live stream is the only way to be sure of seeing it all. Of-course, there will be people who will capture it and post it in various places, no doubt.
There are reports now that Joan Baez’s name has been added to the list of performers. It’s more surprising that her name wasn’t there to begin with, considering everything. People are writing that she will “join Dylan” or “reunite with Dylan,” and of-course it seems a good bet that they will sing something together, but then, you never know. They have had a, er, complex relationship. Dylan’s hardly ever — if ever — said anything particularly nasty about her, but the same can’t be said the other way around. I shudder to think what she’ll say about him if he somehow avoids performing with her at this event! But you have to expect that they will do at least one tune in tandem. (… continue reading …)
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
A good old Hallelujah ...9:18 am
Said to be from Naples, Italy in 2001, the newly-uploaded video clip below is of Bob Dylan and his band performing Hallelujah I’m Ready To Go. It’s one of a variety of what you might call sacred songs from the hills that Dylan often used to kick off his shows, roughly between 1999 and 2002.
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Things have been a little quiet around here, but I haven’t been staying away from the internet or anything dangerous like that. I have been re-vamping and re-ramping things a little at The Cinch Review, so by no means consider yourself unwelcome to check it out.
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Iranian Bob Dylan to rock Stanford University ...10:17 pm
Alright, if you had a dime for every time someone was called the “new Bob Dylan” or any other kind of Bob Dylan other than the real one, you’d have at least the price of a Happy Meal. But, although that label may be nothing more than lazy journalism, his story is interesting.
When singer-songwriter Mohsen Namjoo takes the stage at Stanford University on Friday, he will be doing what he was never able to do in his homeland of Iran: perform in public.
Dubbed the “Iranian Bob Dylan,” Namjoo created music that led to his banishment from Iran even as his young fans there, who discovered his performances on YouTube, were becoming mesmerized by his poetic protests against the theocracy and its endless crackdowns. (… continue reading …)
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Blue Moon, I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight ...1:26 pm
Bob Dylan recorded the classic Rodgers and Hart composition Blue Moon on his album Self Portrait
A “Blue Moon” comes along once in a blue moon: It’s a standard for singers who don’t sing standards. Actually, that makes it even rarer than a blue moon, which in the non-musical sense comes along more often than the colloquialism would lead one to expect. (… continue reading …)
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Rays of hope ...10:28 pm
Amidst all the gloom, let’s not miss some really good news. From the Guardian, “Global deal on climate change in 2010 ‘all but impossible.’”
A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations. (… continue reading …)
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Quote for the day ...4:29 pm
Who said the following?
The vast accumulations of knowledge — or at least of information — deposited by the twentieth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not.
Don’t you hate it when (… continue reading …)
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Morgan Freeman on “Black History Month” ...3:51 pm
As mentioned previously and reported all over the place, on February 10th there will be an event called “A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement” at the White House, with Bob Dylan and a smorgasbord of other artists performing. It is to be emceed by Morgan Freeman and Queen Latifah. Interesting, perhaps, is the clip below of Morgan Freeman talking to Mike Wallace of CBS on his attitude towards “Black History Month” and his idea on how to end racism. (… continue reading …)
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance ...3:12 pm
While looking to see what were the latest Bob Dylan-related videos uploaded to YouTube, I found the clip below. It’s of a student singing Gotta Serve Somebody at a school prayer service, accompanying herself on piano. I think it’s a really good take on the song, actually; it’s worth a listen all the way through.
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And below is a clip of Bob Dylan performing the same tune in Copenhagen last March. (… continue reading …)
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth ...5:31 pm
Today (and apparently only today) Amazon.com is selling Bob Dylan’s album Together Through Life
It strikes me that 39 cents a track is about the right price for an mp3 file, and $3.99 about right for what would be a single-disc album. Normally, of-course, Amazon and other online music retailers charge about 99 cents per track. (… continue reading …)
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Osama Green Laden ...10:25 am
Oh, boy. And yet, it’s really not all that surprising. If this tape is genuine, the question is one why Bin Laden didn’t get on the climate-change bandwagon a long time ago. The enemy of my enemy is my friend; if he were really savvy he would have been railing against the way the Great Satan was destroying Allah’s precious earth for the past decade. In actuality, he has brought it up before, back in 2007, but only as part of a laundry list of complaints against capitalism and democracy. (… continue reading …)
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
A half-baked soufflé ...9:59 pm
From the Daily News: White House orders Justice Department to look for other places to hold 9/11 terror trial.
Officials [at the Justice Department] have apparently been caught off guard by the fiery opposition in New York, an insider told the Daily News.
“They’re in a tizzy at Justice over Bloomberg,” a federal law enforcement official said. “It’s like a half-baked souffle – the plan is collapsing.”
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Rep. Pete King made a push against a Manhattan trial by introducing a bill that would prohibit the use of Justice Department funds to try Guantanamo detainees in civilian courts.
The Long Island Republican called the White House plan “one of the worst decisions ever made by any President” and insisted Mohammed should be tried by the military.
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Last night’s really bad TV show ...4:15 pm
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