I’ve long been a fan of the music of the 60’s and 70’s. It’s the music I grew up with and the music I had the opportunity to expose a radio audience to for a few short years in the 1970’s. Today, the 60’s and 70’s channels are the presets on my Sirius satellite radio (sharing time with CNN and the talk radio channels). I found the post below fascinating for it’s detail into a chapter from Bob Dylan’s career and for the fact that it comes from the Arkansas-based “Oxford American” magazine. Via Brijit, here’s the 100 word summary and a link.
The story is now a legend: Having just finished Highway 61 Revisited and gone electric at the Newport Folk festival, a creatively stifled Bob Dylan goes down South to record Blonde on Blonde with country session musicians. At the final recording session, Dylan and company roll out six landmark songs in the early morning, changing modern music in just a few hours. Wilentz does an admirable job collecting the accounts of the characters involved, including one from the studio janitor — a struggling musician named Kris Kristofferson [...]
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