Bob Dylan

“I always loved Batman. The way I looked at it, you had to come from another planet to be Superman but I could be Batman. And you know I tried.” ~ Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour, October, 2008 — “Night” In June 1966…

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.” Tom Waits is a street poet with a heart of tarnished brass. With a voice like broken tiles spinning in an old washing machine, Waits fuses the pathos of Louis Armstrong, the ramblings of Charles Bukowski…

Until now, I never realized I enjoy so many songs about the wind — “I’m older now but still running against the wind.” — Bob Seger Recently, I wrote a computer program to compare average wind speeds in Chicago, Illinois, and my city of Rochester, Minnesota. Chicago is known as the “Windy City,” of course. Maybe the politicians are windy there, because my analysis…

You never forget your first, and Willie Nile quickly remembers the first Bob Dylan album he heard. “Another Side of Bob Dylan was the first album that I got of his,” said Nile, who proceeds to reel off some of the lyrics from “I Shall Be Free Number 10”…

Happy Birthday Bob — My memory of the first time Bob Dylan and I crossed paths remains crystal clear. It was 1966 and I was about to turn 15. I had become good friends with a family of three sisters — the middle one being my age. Their parents had opened their suburban home…

Number One is May 24th in Music History — 1941 — Bob Dylan, Born in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior, he became an American singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize laureate. Bobby Dylan, as the college yearbook lists him: St. Lawrence University, upstate New York, November 1963 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan Living at the Jewish-centric…