Saturday, March 28, 2020

See Luther Vandross Serenade Dionne Warwick Live with Her Old Hit, Bachrach & David’s “A House is Not a Home” (Live)

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Unfortunately, this performance was at the equivalent of a Nazi Nuremberg Rally, the 1988 NAACP Image Awards, but hey, you can’t have everything.





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BOB DYLAN'S NEW 17 MINUTE SONG RECEIVES RAVE REVIEWS

Hear Bob Dylan’s Absolutely Mind-Blowing New Song ‘Murder Most Foul’
Dylan’s first original song in eight years is about JFK’s assassination — but it’s really about so much more

By BRIAN HIATT

Bob Dylan, who hasn’t released an original song since 2012’s Tempest, unexpectedly dropped a previously unheard, nearly 17-minute-long new track, “Murder Most Foul,” late Thursday night.

Dylan didn’t say exactly when the song was recorded, but his delicate vocal delivery resembles the way he’s been singing in his live shows in the past couple of years. “Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty over the years,” Dylan said in a statement. “This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant, and may God be with you.”

This dizzying, utterly extraordinary song — as allusive as it is elusive — starts off seeming like it might be a straightforward recounting of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but expands into an impressionistic, elegiac, increasingly apocalyptic journey through what feels like the entire Sixties (complete with references to the Who’s Tommy, Woodstock, and Altamont) and then perhaps all of 20th-century America, especially its music.


The song’s structural freedom and mesmerizing arrangement — a dusting of piano, a lilting violin, distant percussion — feel like fresh territory for Dylan, occasionally evoking Van Morrison at his most mystical. Its themes of doom — and possible redemption — feel alarmingly in tune with our current moment, which may have prompted Dylan to choose it for release.

“The day they killed him, someone said to me, ‘Son, the age of the Antichrist has just only begun,'” Dylan sings. “The soul of a nation’s been torn away, and it’s beginning to go into a slow decay.… It’s 36 hours past judgement day.”

In its prayer-like final passages (the song is so structurally daunting that it’s hard to think in terms of verses), Dylan invokes the DJ Wolfman Jack before dropping a long list of songs and musicians, from John Lee Hooker to Guitar Slim to Bud Powell to Stevie Nicks to Don Henley to Dickey Betts to Thelonious Monk, and even mentions Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young.” Oh, and somewhere in there, he nods to Nightmare on Elm Street.

It’s unclear if the song is connected to a new album, though there were murmurs of such a project earlier this year.
GRA:Zerohedge has the full song.
--GRA

Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 1:37:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

I just listened to the entire song and it was a pleasant listen.The first thing I pay attention to in any recording is,how does it sound?The first part of "Murder,Most Foul's" vocals seemed to meander between Dylan,Mark Knopfler and traces of (sorry Bob) Adam Sandler.As the song progressed,I got more into the mood,which the violins and piano dictated nicely.
Not a classic Dylan piece of rock and roll,but not a waste of time either.
--GRA

Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 2:18:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."

I fear John Adams was right. And that too means we are all in big trouble.

Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 1:12:00 PM EDT

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