There are a few things new Rock and Roll HoF would need to avoid that plagues the other HoF. 1) Accept the fact that African American musicians by and large stopped playing rock or rock and roll after the 1970's. Pop, disco, R&B, hip hop, club music are largely producer driven. Perhaps I would i...

They'll come a day when the pickings are slim and only then do I see the alt. country & southern rock bands listed getting in, if then. I think two or three alt.country bands will get in once the generation of writers, artists, dj's, etc... who came of age listening to the No Depression bands r...

The Jayhawks will never be in the HoF. Soul Asylum has a far greater chance. Sadly, I believe you're right. If the RRHOF considers alt.country the same way they did southern rock they will induct three bands. In the southern rock subgenre Skynyrd, Allman Brothers and ZZ Top are in while The Outlaws...

The HOF requires 25 years after a band's first release. So the 2016 class will be someone whose first record came out in 1991. So for alt.country The Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo and Lucinda Williams are all eligible. Steve Earle has been eligible since 2011 if you go by Guitar Town . Whiskeytown/Ryan Ada...

I am happy that Stevie Ray Vaughn is finally in. Updated list of my most egregious snubs. 1) The Swampers -- I don't have to make a case for David Hood and company on this board but I would venture to guess that many participants here assumed they were already in the hall. 2) Paul Revere and The Rai...

When I was in fifth grade I became obsessed with all things Jefferson Airplane/Starship. That was the summer Red Octopus came out. Within a year I had most of their discography. The music still connects with me but in a different way. Back then I was really into the political songs by Grace Slick an...

Haters gonna hate, so have at it... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Bat_out_of_Hell.jpg The soundtrack to a horny 13 year old's existence. Still love it. I was fourteen the summer this record came out. It was the soundtrack to a summer of sneaking out of the house in the middle of the...

Christmas morning 1972. Eight years old. The telltale shape of a record album warpped green and red paper. I unwrap it. It is a German pressing of the UK version of The Beatles A Hard Day's Night (I believe my father bought this record from the high end stereo shop in our town, not the record store....

Wow. At risk of getting all kinds of shit for hyperbole, I have to say that this song recalls the simple eloquence of Kris Kristofferson's best work. Cooley, Hood and Isbell are three of the best songwriters of my generation -- well, technically Isbell is from the generation behind me but he did his...

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I am anticipating a buying spree in the next couple weeks so I will withhold my list. Overall, it has been a fantastic year for new releases. I suspect I will be discovering great 2014 albums well into 2015. One thing that stands out in my mind is that 2014 has been one of the strongest years for fe...

Regardless of the fans' personal views on the case it is a privilege to have Patterson share his songwriting process with the rest of us.

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:Which still doesn't translate as Dylan doing "several tours with the Grateful Dead".

Sorry, I meant "shows" but put the word "tours" in the sentence by mistake. I'll stay off this thread.

Kudzu Guillotine wrote:Gotcha. I think my first one was Steal Your Face, which no one seems to like but it's always been a favorite of mine. Same for Reckoning.

I always liked those two records as well. Steal Your Face is a better record than the Deadheads think it is.

I hate to be such a stickler but Dylan only did one tour with The Dead, and it was a short one at that, It was just six shows in July of 1987. I didn't see anyone say differently. I've heard the boots from the tour and a better album probably could have been produced from it. That's all. The rest o...

I am currently reading Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan . It is the second volume of Ian Bell's biography and covers his life and body of work from Blood On The Tracks to the present. He pays close attention to Dylan's "lost decade": the 80's. Most biographers skip over this period...

A few random conclusions I have come to regarding the phenomenon called "Bob Dylan." -- Dylan was unprecedented. At least in music. He emerged at a time when so-called "young people" (the post-war baby boomers) were coming of age. This is one reason why he was misunderstood, espe...

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I scored the two disc version of The Basement Tapes at Best Buy yesterday. The Basement Tapes is the Dylan album I put off getting into until a few years ago. In high school my three favorite Dylan albums were Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde and John Wesley Harding . I was aware of the reputa...

As far as being a fan goes, I make a concerted effort to help out bands I like who are on the van tour level. I offer them a place to stay when they are in town and try to get a group of friends to go out to their shows. Usually the door for these bands is somewhere between five and ten dollars. I a...

He arrived just before set time and set up his gear when the opening act finished. Great show.

I am currently reading Ian Bell's Dylan books. An interesting thing I hadn't previously considered. Most people, when considering Dylan's career, consider the motorcycle crash to be the end of the creatively fertile first period where he went from being the 19 year old kid who hitchhiked to NYC in s...

Catching McMurtry tonight at The Melting Point in Athens. McMurtry on Thurs, DBT on Friday. That's three of my top ten favorite songwriters in two days. I don't think you can beat that. Maybe in the 60's you could have caught The Beatles and Dylan two nights back to back.

Just checked into my motel. Guess I'm the first one here! Let's get this party started.

Self Portrait got a whole lot of love in the rock press when it was reissued a year or so ago. 80's Dylan is his most neglected era. Underrated. Oh Mercy and Infidels are the two best in the bunch, IMO. Infidels would have been a top tier Dylan album if he'd put "Blind Willie McTell" on t...

How about The Beatles?

Blood on the Tracks is my favorite Dylan record but Desire is nearly as good and I think suffers in the discography more because of what it follows than it's own merits. Desire and Street Legal are two records that Dylan fans didn't hold in high regard at the time but of their release but in recent...

I thought about leaving that paragraph out but decided not to strike it. A big part of people's reaction to Dylan in the early part of his career had to do with the protest songs and the way he pretty much stopped writing them after "The Times They Are A Changing". His earliest fan base fe...

When Bob Dylan emerged at the dawn of the sixties there were no precedents. He was a folk singer who, early on, broke the rules of the genre by being a composer (albeit one who borrowed liberally from "the tradition") instead of an interpreter. Not even old enough to vote when John Hammond...

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