Bob Dylan is known for his introspective songwriting that has influenced many other artists, including John Lennon and Mick Jagger. His songs had a personal touch that managed to express his experience and views, while also being relatable for a mainstream audience. While Dylan was an open book, he tried not to air out his grievances in his music, except for one song that was about being betrayed by others.
Bob Dylan said ‘Positively 4th Street’ is a song about past relationships that fell apart
“Positively 4th Street” was released as a single by Dylan in 1965, with “From a Buick 6” as the B-side. The song is one of Dylan’s more bitter and nasty songs, with many critics being turned off by how resentful the singer was coming across.
In a 1985 interview with Rolling Stone, Dylan said he avoids addressing authentic relationships within his music. However, “Positively 4th Street” does take aim at specific people,...
Bob Dylan said ‘Positively 4th Street’ is a song about past relationships that fell apart
“Positively 4th Street” was released as a single by Dylan in 1965, with “From a Buick 6” as the B-side. The song is one of Dylan’s more bitter and nasty songs, with many critics being turned off by how resentful the singer was coming across.
In a 1985 interview with Rolling Stone, Dylan said he avoids addressing authentic relationships within his music. However, “Positively 4th Street” does take aim at specific people,...
- 6/27/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Bob Dylan Center teased its newly acquired trove of early Dylan recordings with a previously unreleased live rendition of “He Was a Friend of Mine.”
The performance comes from Dylan’s first major solo gig, Nov. 4, 1961 at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City. The gig was organized by Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, and it took place not long after Dylan inked his record deal with Columbia.
The rendition of “He Was a Friend of Mine” Dylan performed at that Carnegie Chapter Hall...
The performance comes from Dylan’s first major solo gig, Nov. 4, 1961 at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City. The gig was organized by Izzy Young, owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, and it took place not long after Dylan inked his record deal with Columbia.
The rendition of “He Was a Friend of Mine” Dylan performed at that Carnegie Chapter Hall...
- 11/16/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
By Hank Reineke
If you trust the biographical sketch included on his 1963 LP As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, the folksinger Peter Lafarge hailed from Fountain, Colorado, a farming and ranching town settled ten miles south of Colorado Springs. If you trust the memory of his own mother, Peter Lafarge was actually born Oliver Albee Lafarge on April 30th, 1931, in New York City. The singer-songwriter was the son of the notable anthropologist, author and historian, Oliver Lafarge. The senior Lafarge’s 1929 novel documenting life on a Navajo reservation, Laughing Boy, would earn him a Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1930.
Though separated early on from his biological father due to his parent’s divorce in 1935, Peter remained his father’s son in his studious devotion of America’s indigenous people. His mother, with whom Peter remained, remarried in 1940 to Alexander Kane, a rancher in aforementioned Fountain, Co. Through his stepfather’s business,...
If you trust the biographical sketch included on his 1963 LP As Long as the Grass Shall Grow, the folksinger Peter Lafarge hailed from Fountain, Colorado, a farming and ranching town settled ten miles south of Colorado Springs. If you trust the memory of his own mother, Peter Lafarge was actually born Oliver Albee Lafarge on April 30th, 1931, in New York City. The singer-songwriter was the son of the notable anthropologist, author and historian, Oliver Lafarge. The senior Lafarge’s 1929 novel documenting life on a Navajo reservation, Laughing Boy, would earn him a Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1930.
Though separated early on from his biological father due to his parent’s divorce in 1935, Peter remained his father’s son in his studious devotion of America’s indigenous people. His mother, with whom Peter remained, remarried in 1940 to Alexander Kane, a rancher in aforementioned Fountain, Co. Through his stepfather’s business,...
- 9/2/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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