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Sounds interesting.
From the UK Observer:
No one would have expected Dylan the shock jock, emulating the on-air behaviour of a Howard Stern or Chris Moyles and discussing his interest in women's underwear. But it certainly is a shock to hear this voice of several generations behind the mic - stretching vowels out, teasing us, smiling half the time.
After 'Blow, Wind, Blow' by that giant of Chicago blues, Muddy Waters, our host for the next hour continues: 'Chicago is known as the Windy City, but it's not the windiest city in the US; the windiest city is Dodge City, Kansas. Other windy cities are Amarillo, Texas; Rochester, Minneso-taaa ... all of which beat Chicago.' Didn't someone once say you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows? Turns out that Dylan himself is a something of a meteorologist, besides his other talents.
As on his last album, Love and Theft, he pays homage to the music that continues to inspire him, flipping from gospel to calypso to Judy Garland. He's showing off his collection (he has assembled a true historian's archive) - and that, after all, is the motivation of any great DJ.
The story that he tells about the recording of 'Just Walking In the Rain' by the Prisonaires and their tragic singer Johnny Bragg lends it a whole other side. Most importantly, like everything he plays, the song's a cracker. He's probably making some sort of point about the value of modern music. Put it this way: he doesn't pick 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' by Travis.
Dylan once wrote about the anodyne radio stations of his youth, 'filled with empty pleasantries'. He remembers listening to Roy Orbison, but 'next to Roy the playlist was strictly dullsville ... It all came at you like you didn't have a brain.' One shudders to think of what he might make of a world in which Moyles is paid £630,000 a year. He describes the Santa Ana winds as being 'always on the edge of hellfire ... like the winds of the Apocalypse'; this is authentic Dylanesque language, steeped in biblical intensity, rather than the idiom of Nuts magazine.
Later, introducing 'After the Clouds Roll Away', he muses: 'I don't know what kind of clouds might be rolling away, but they're probably the alto-cirrus or the alto-stratus ...' The triumph of Dylan's show is that it really is unlike anything else you could hear, and as such is priceless.
Website: http://www.xmradio.com/bobdylan/  4/22/2006 11:52:44 PM
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