HARD TO SAY I'M SORRY
Chicago
Chicago 16
Warner Brothers : 1982
[Buy It]
STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
Columbia : 1966
[Buy It]
HOW CAN I LOVE YOU (IF YOU WON'T LIE DOWN)
Silver Jews
Tanglewood Numbers
Drag City : 2005
[Buy It]
Oh music, music, music. It's hard to keep you in my life. The iPod, which I introduced to the world via Moistworks, has gone untouched for several weeks. I'm sorry, little pink one. I live with a vinyl junkie, and I'm sitting here in my apartment surrounded by it all, in addition to my own CD/tape/vinyl collection (from a time when I did have a genuine and strident interest) and all there is is a car going by on Humboldt Street blasting this Chicago song ("After all that we've been through!"). And the memory of being in a cafe in my neighborhood on Sunday morning, watching a pretty girl sing along to this Bob Dylan song. She couldn't have been more than 25, and I marveled at her knowledge of every single word. Bob. I think he's been a little too "around" lately, with the paperback release of Chronicles and some other scrapbook-style book, and the PBS documentary.
"Are you a poet?" a reporter asks a young Bob, looking gorgeous and young as I wish I could've kept him in my mind (had he dutifully died at 27 like all the rest).
"I'm just a song and dance man," he said.
And, with that, my mind goes to David Berman, whose new Silver Jews record came out yesterday. A poet and a musician certainly. I'm not sure about the dancing part.Labels: folk, indie, ipod, joanna
