Dylan-Baez. Carretera perdida, camino de perdición
Eder2023-07-16T11:38:06+02:00Por el camino –perdido y de perdición– que transitó Hank Williams. Hank Williams’ reputation today rests, in part, on his status as the artist who cemented the notion that the singer and the song had to be indivisible if the effect on the listener was to have sufficient resonance and depth. Yet Williams was also a fine interpreter of others’ songs, so much so that Lost Highway, written by Leon “I Love You Because” Payne, is often mistaken for a Williams original. The song’s protagonist seems to have ambled straight out of the dustbowl, an everyman doomed by luckless love to roam, rootless and alone, in constant search of redemptive purpose. Williams’ own struggle to [...]
Why I Love ‘Volare’, by Bob Dylan
Eder2023-01-02T23:03:10+01:00Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan F lying too high can be dangerous, one bad move leads to another, and that move is usually worse than the one before. Committing yourself too early can lead to disaster, but once you go, you go. This song is zooming and whizzing and runs the course, it gets up to speed and barges into the sun, ricochets off the stars, smokes pipe dreams and blasts into cloud cuckoo land. It’s a whimsical song and stays aloft. You get the mental picture, Utopia, and it’s painted blue. Oil paint, cosmetics and greasepaint, frescoes with blue slapped on, and you’re singing like a canary. You’re tickled pink and walking on air, and [...]
Amistad ruso-finlandesa: Knock knock knockin’
Eder2022-04-03T19:00:42+02:00Otros tiempos, no tan lejanos aunque se diría que muy muy remotos: Leningrad Cowboys y los Coros del Ejercito Rojo en Helsinki. Corría 1994.
Confinado con Bob Dylan
Eder2021-01-03T00:35:07+01:00Audio: Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul (finales de marzo de 2020, 17 minutos) Vídeo: fragmento (17 minutos) de On Paradise Road (2020), de James Benning (filmado en Val Verde, Texas, en los días del primer confimamiento de 2020) Texto: Nick Cave sobre Murder Most Foul de Dylan (Londres, primer confinamiento, 2020) “Many other people have also written in about Bob Dylan’s new song, ‘Murder Most Foul’ — and the interest is justifiable. It is a perplexing but beautiful song and, like many people, I have been extremely moved by it. At the heart of this seventeen-minute epic is a terrible event, the assassination of JFK — a dark vortex that threatens to pull everything into it, just [...]
Llamando a las puertas de Macbeth
Eder2022-04-01T09:39:15+02:00Extraño, si no imposible, el Macbeth de Michael Fassbender y Marion Cotillard, porque ¿cómo puede ser un Macbeth en el que no se llame –knock, knock, knock– a las puertas de Macbeth? De vuelta a los clásicos: https://youtu.be/F2Eh16beJnQ From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect. [...]
Sick of Love
Eder2015-08-02T07:02:20+02:00Variaciones Zimmerman: http://youtu.be/ATe1nD8rkmw Versión White Stripes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBq4Fcksa0