[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Dan Lusthaus]

So now going after Bush and his cronies isn't enough. We have to dump on
Bobby Zimmerman too?

Richard, give another listen to "To Ramona," "God on Our Side," and "The
Ballad of Hollis Brown" for starters. They're straightforward (as you claim
you like stuff), three distinct genres, and as profound and effective as
song lyrics have ever gotten.

I would agree the creative profundity largely evaporated from Dylan's
writing around Nashville Skyline days (aside from Live at Buddokan, I
haven't bought new Dylan music since New Morning -- both albums were
*musically* interesting), but there is still some juice in those old songs.
Nothing around today compares.

Dylan is not inarticulate, he just connects the verbal dots a bit
differently than most of the rest of us, which is the prerogative of poets.
Put another way, poetry is a shared incoherence.

I have it on good authority that Buddha's ipod mostly contains early Dylan,
Beatles, some Hendrix, and Bach orchestral pieces. Rumor has it he was also
partial to Coltrane and Thelonius Monk.

Dan Lusthaus