Since the year is winding up very quickly, I guess it's time to wonder what might be featuring on this year's Best Of the year CDR...
these are some of the folks fighting for a place on my coveted final 15:
Primal Scream, Belle and Sebastian, Bert Jansch (great new LP out last week), Mogwai, Lords, Secret Machines, Richard Hawley, The Archie Bronson Outfit, Micah P Hinson, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Mozzer, Arctic Monkeys, and Bob Dylan...and Jake Thackray. (via a cheeky reissue, the only one on the list)
well that's how things stand tonight, things may change by the year end, as they usually do.
7.9.06
I got the porkchops, she got the pie
There's a new Bob Dylan album at large, and would you believe it, it's the number one LP in the US. It's the first time that the old croaker has managed this since the heady days of Desire, 30 years ago... Even more surpising...maybe..is that the LP is terrific; full of fire and brimstone bar-room R&B, and crooning country swing tunes which could have been recorded forty or fifty years ago. The lyrics are tremendous, and show an often overlooked sense of humour:
"I've been to St Herman's church, said my religious vows I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows"
Never mind the cows - who the hell was St Herman??
No one can touch Dylan - he has an ever-changing set list on a never-ending tour, when plenty of his contemporaries would have been happy to slope off to Vegas and play the nostalgia card til they dropped dead.
He's keeping his art real, alive, and valid; making great records, and writing a fascinating and beautifully written autobiography.
Rock music is 50 years old, it's practitioners are at a pensionable age. Dylan shows how it's possible to keep doing this stuff with vigour and integrity, and dignity. If only he would have a word with Mick Jagger...
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