(Vocals, guitar, b. 1941) Dylan had already conquered the folk and rock’n’roll fields completely by the time he recorded in Nashville for the first time in 1965. That was for the rock-flavoured Blonde On Blonde album, but he was soon back to cut the more obviously country projects John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline, which helped kick ...
Next to The Beatles, Bob Dylan was the most influential artist of his generation, writing and performing songs whose poetic, sometimes-abstract, often-philosophical lyrics of astute commentary and therapeutic introspection spoke to the masses during an era of social unrest, political upheaval and radical change. While cross-pollinating folk and country with electric rock, Dylan elevated the ...
directions. Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee became the heartbeat of the American revival – giving crucial reference and impetus to the arrival of Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village and igniting a new movement of protest song that had massive reverberations around the rest of the world. In the UK, interest in the folk blues of ...
included The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Who, who had already started out with a more aggressive rock sensibility. Add to them former folkies such as Bob Dylan and The Byrds, as well as emerging west coast acts like The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, and it was clear that, echoing the ...
largely applied only to the 1960s/early 1970s Golden Era. Nevertheless, just as all white rock and pop eventually refers back to the blues, Elvis, The Beatles or Dylan, the black pop we now (rather ironically) call R&B owes its existence to the leaps of artistic faith made by Charles, Cooke and Brown. ‘It was a slang ...
Frisell made two of his best-known albums: Have A Little Faith (1992), an ambitious album tackling Charles Ives and Aaron Copland (‘Billy The Kid’), John Hiatt (the title song), Bob Dylan (‘Just Like A Woman’), and Madonna (‘Live To Tell’); and This Land 1992), a complementary set of originals. He also performed soundtracks to the silent films of Buster Keaton with ...
entendre. Cheating women were also a concern on ‘Eagle Eyed Mama’, but titles like ‘One Dime Blues’, ‘Prison Cell Blues’ and ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’ (which Bob Dylan recorded on his first album) hint at deeper fears. He could cut a desolate sound, and while his instrumental style was hard to copy, his lyrics were widely ...
their own success, they split in 1971 because of the demand for their individual services as ace sessioneers. There have been periodic high-profile reformations: in 1992 they backed Bob Dylan at Madison Square Gardens, and in 1993 toured with Neil Young. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | James Brown | Sixties | Rock ...
(Guitar, vocals, b. 1949) Hailed as the new Dylan after two albums, Springsteen fully realized his potential with the widescreen Born To Run (1975). Managerial problems delayed Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978), a more sombre but no less compelling work. The double album The River appeared in 1980 followed by the stark, pessimistic Nebraska in ...
flight crashed in snowy conditions on 3 February 1959. So much potential unfulfilled, but a legacy left that would influence generations of rockers and singer-songwriters alike, from Bob Dylan to Elvis Costello, from The Rolling Stones to Paul Simon. ‘We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes.’ Buddy Holly on rock’n’roll music Classic Recordings ...
real-life characters that he worked into songs such as ‘Tom Rushen Blues’ and ‘High Sheriff Blues’. He died in 1934, but his influence persists into the twenty-first century; Bob Dylan included a tribute song – ‘High Water Everywhere (For Charley Patton)’ – on his 2001 album Love And Theft. ‘If I were going to record for just my pleasure I ...
(Vocals, guitar, fiddle, b. 1936) Daniels was a North Carolina rock’n’roller who had a song cut by Elvis Presley and who played on Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline. Daniels formed his own band in 1972, modelled on the southern rock of The Allman Brothers Band, and had a hit with the 1973 tall tale, ‘Uneasy Rider’ ...
Charles Edward Anderson Berry, known to all as Chuck, was born in St Louis, Missouri, on 18 October 1926, at the family’s home in Goode Avenue. The local gospel choir used it for their rehearsals and there was a well-employed piano in situ. Berry began learning the guitar in his mid-teens. At 17 he was involved ...
(Singer-songwriter, b. 1968) Born near Manchester, the Dylanesque Gray toiled throughout the 1990s, while seemingly only Irish audiences listened. But mainstream success would not escape a songwriter with Gray’s talent, and soon chart hit after chart hit (‘Please Forgive Me’, ‘Babylon’) snatched mass radio airplay, bolstered by a middle-aged fan base and anyone who liked a ...
gone on tour with Thunderhawk. Trucks formed The Derek Trucks Band in 1996, and by the time he was 20, he had played with such artists as Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and Stephen Stills. Trucks credits guitarist Duane Allman and bluesman Elmore James as the two slide guitarists who influenced his early style. He was inspired by blues ...
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