Advantages: Brilliant and Original Compositions Disadvantages: A Bit Rough around the Edges For Modern Tastes
...at this time - all heading for California and, hopefully, a new life. Among this human tide was a penniless Woody Guthrie.
This period was to scar Guthrie for the rest of his life – the ignominy of poverty and the inhumane treatment meted out to the ‘Okies’ (as these refugees were known) by the Californian authorities and US government was henceforth to colour his music.
In 1937 Guthrie began to write and broadcast songs on various Californian and Mexican radio stations – these were, in the main, protest songs based on his experience of the Dust Bowl years. ‘Hard Travelling’ and ‘Dust Bowl Blues’ are two of the most famous from this time. Guthrie also praised Great Depression outlaws such as Pretty Boy Floyd in his music and, unsurprisingly, he was banned from several radio stations.
1939 found Woody in NewYork, where he was taken...
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Advantages: fairly good intro to his bobness (ie does not include blowin in the wind) Disadvantages: a bit patchy, but still inspiring stuff
...This is Bob Dylan's first album. Originally a complete failure... and you can see why. It's just not mainstream stuff. but it is good. Most of these songs are blues standards or stolen by his Bobness (stolen tracks are marked as Traditional, arranged Dylan. My arse. Talkin' New York is a straight Woody Guthrie rip off.) All that said, this absolutely brilliant. When I first started listening to Bob Dylan, I listened to my Dad's copy of the The Best Of... Vol 1. I didn't really like it, but he also had a tape with both this album and The Times They Are A-Changin' on it. Wow.
Dylan, as has been said many times before, sounds old before his time, although this doesn't always work, especially on the songs professing his naivete, such as Talkin NewYork. Dylan's guitar playing is just so interesting to listen to though, it supercedes all...
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Advantages: A modern classic to rival Moby Dick Disadvantages: Pardon?
...Times” – “Down Slow” lacks only the harpsichord and Beth Gibbons’ vocals. And just to remind you that here is a man who can turn his musical hand to anything – Moby plays *all* the instruments on this work – a little classical guitar is included to introduce and then underlie “Everloving”.
A devout but not evangelical Christian and vegan, Moby has chosen to include examples of his literary skill with this musical offering, and this review would not be complete without at least a mention of the five essays written in January 1999 at home in NewYork. The first is particularly poignant as he talks of fundamentalism and how if “we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief...
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