Music Of The World: August 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Jakob Dylan's Women + Country: Good Music

With this work Jakob Dylan is saying, "I'm not just Bob Dylan's son, I'm my own man."

(That's probably what "Papa Dylan" told him [and what Ginsberg probably would have thought, also].)

Note: I learned that ([ ]) at The Miami Herald, just as Papa Dylan learned a certain guitar riff in England (the song is on his Another Side Of Bob Dylan album). Am plugging in now that until hearing the work again recently, I thought he had picked it up in Italy, prompting me to write: Re: Italia, I've been there, done that, as in living there for a year and a half and making 10 visits to Roma, five to Firenze, three to Venezia, trips to Ischia, Capri, Sicilia, etc., and a month traveling Europe, including a week each in Amsterdam, London and Paris.

And this came while serving in the U.S. Air Force; I knew men -- no, make that boys -- who never left the base in that time. Unbelievable.

One more thing: I just searched the Internet and discovered Jakob Dylan is 40; sometimes it takes that long "to come out from under the shadow" of a famous parent. This is similar to a remark by a well known American novelist when he said at a literary seminar in Key West that he was still being referred to as a "rising young novelist" when he was well past age 40.

Thoughts and True Wild West/True American Southwest/True Country (check out the dirt road in the middle of this town) photo work (c) Copyright Paul Heidelberg, MMX.

(Add 1 on October 13, 2010, the first full day of the miners being brought to the surface in Chile. I had thought this weeks ago, after listening to the Women + Country They've Trapped Us Boys tune (Track 9) about three times: at first I thought the words were metaphorical but then I realized he is singing about miners trapped in a mine. Jakob Dylan wrote this tune, and released this CD, long before the Chilean miners were trapped, prompting me to think -- we have another prophetic Dylan; it must run in the family.)



Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Musical Note: Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti and George Frederic Handel were all born in 1685/Also... (See Below)

...Each died in the 1750s: Bach in 1750, Scarlatti in 1757 and Handel in 1759.

So, 1685 was a good year for musicians, and music.

This photo, taken in Weimar, Germany, was shot at the house where J.S. Bach lived from 1708 to 1717; two of his 21 children were born here.

Photograph Copyright (c) Paul Heidelberg