Dylan on Johnny Cash

Subject: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:04 AM

I found this on the Dylan Website.

Dylan on The Man in Black

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Steve-o
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:16 AM

Bobby may have lost his voice, but man can he write. It all sounds truly heartfelt, and it brought tears to my eyes. We surely lost an original.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:20 AM

There's no question that there was always a special bond between these two giants.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Big Tim
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:52 AM

There is also what I thought was a very good tribute by Phil Chevron of the Pogues. It appeared on the Shane MacGowan website, paddyrollingstone: sorry don't have clicky.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Leo Condie
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 12:31 PM

thats about the first time ive ever read something written by dylan that sounds totally sincere. weird.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: alanabit
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 02:53 PM

Thanks Steve. I enjoyed that. I admire Dylan immensely. He is a more complex and indefinable talent than Cash. However, he got straight to the heart of what made Cash great. Cash was essentially a more straightforward artist, but there was nobody else who could have done it and carried it off the way he did. He was the only country star I have ever really cared about.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 07:17 PM

Wow!

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Brían
Date: 15 Oct 03 - 11:14 PM

Thanks, Steve.

Brían

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: GUEST,Peter T.
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 08:12 AM

"take your measure" -- who else would say something like that?

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 08:27 AM

Nice stuff writeen by one very talented and caring artist about another very talented and caring artist...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: PoppaGator
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 01:26 PM

Leo: I know what you mean, even though I don't agree completely. I've read and heard plenty from Dylan before that seemed *sincere* enough to me, but never anything so plainly and straightforwardly stated -- which makes it such a great tribute to Johnny Cash.

When I first read the thread title, I immediately thought of Dylan's appearance on the Johnny Cash *TV show* back in about 1968. This was around the time of "Nashville Skyline," and to some fans, Bob's embrace of country music was more disturbing than his earlier move from acoustic to electric instrumentation had ever been. Back then, the evident friendship between these two huge artists helped many members of their respective followings to understand and respect each other (and thus understand more about human nature and about music).

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Oct 03 - 08:19 PM

This is coming from someone who was a Johnny Cash fan long before I became a Dylan fan. I know that this thread is about Cash, but I have to say that Dylan's reverence of those who proceeded him is something else. He knows American Music, whether it be Cash, Hank, Woody, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Robert Johnson or Ralph Stanley (who he said singing with was the high point in his career). Whether you like Bob or not, he listened to all of this stuff, was influenced by it and then went on to write the best songs ever to come from this continent.

Subject: RE: Dylan on Johnny Cash
From: Nerd
Date: 17 Oct 03 - 12:32 PM

Well, Steve, I find it funny that you say that, whether you like Dylan or not, you are forced to accept he "went on to write the best songs ever to come from this continent." Those who don't like Dylan would probably not agree with that!