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Point your browser at Spokane’s River 99.9 tonight at 9:00 Pacific Time for a two-hour Dylan birthday extravaganza, with guest host Rufus McCain.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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Why is the good life which men have achieved in the twentieth century so bad that only news of world catastrophes, assassinations, plane crashes, mass murders, can divert one from the sadness of ordinary mornings?
Wow,
that Rufus McCain is the real thing! Wonder if he will manage to slip in some Bob Dylan with ALlen Ginsberg during his broadcast…? (Dig the Jack Johnson adapted poem)….
Make it Rufus and all Dylan (& Coltrane) ALL the time!
cheeries,
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(from the udder side of the cascades)
A wonderful representation of Bob Dylan’s music and vast influense! The Woody Guthry tune was a particularly nice touch! We would like to invite Mr. McCain to our village, Shillong, North India, where each year the village comes together to celebrate the birthday of our musical hero – Bob Dylan. At the heart of the celebrations is Lou Majaw, a local celebrity who tours India performing Dylan’s songs to rapturous crowds, even though the rock and roll lifestyle seems to be tearing him apart!
Kudos! Sorry Trouble in Mind got lost, but otherwise a beautiful conglomeration of material.
Mr. Dylan’s voice is anything but pretty. He is consciously trying to recapture the rude beauty of a Southern field hand musing in melody on his back porch
Bob Dylan is a no account son of a bitch.
I would like to thank Dylan for putting names [of back-up musicians] on albums. That didn’t happen before he got here.
You say the answer is blowing in the wind, my friend. So it is: but it is not the wind that blows things away. It is the wind that is the breath and life of the Holy Spirit, the voice that calls and says, ‘Come!’
What I feel for Dylan now and did not feel before is empathy. His music stands and it will survive. Because it embodied our feelings, we wanted him to embody them, too. He had his own feelings. He did not want to embody ours. We found it hard to forgive him for that. He had the choice of caving in or dropping out. The blues band music, however good it really was, functioned also to announce the end of his days as a standard-bearer. Then after his motorcycle crash in 1966, he went away into a personal space where he remains.
[Rufus McCain’s Open Waters Bob Dylan Birthday Special] represents a great musical… summit, as no less than the great [Rufus McCain] directs — with superb control and judgment — what surely qualifies as the definitive [radio show] about Bob Dylan.
I don’t try to endear myself to the crowd.
His songs lit up my life and gave it a lot of meaning. His new stuff doesn’t touch me as much though
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, ‘No hablo ingles.’
Did you get my request for North Country Girl?
Seriously, did you?