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Bob Dylan tells Rolling Stone that Texas is the reason
Bob Dylan really isn’t kidding about the Texas thing that’s all over his new album.
In the May 14 issue of Rolling Stone, Dylan talks at length about the role Texas plays in the new album.
On border towns: “You feel things and you’re not quite sure what you feel. But it follows your every move.”
On the music: “Texas might have more independent thinking people than any other state in the country. And it shows in the music….Texas is so big; it’s a republic, it’s its own country.”
On Billy Joe Shaver, who comes up in a lyric: “Waylon and me played (Shaver’s) ‘Ain’t No God in Mexico’ and I don’t know, it was quite good….Shaver and David Allen Coe became my favorite guys in that [outlaw] genre.”
On Doug Sahm: “Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that period of time that I connected with… Doug a heavy frequency…It’s like what Charley Patton says, ‘My God, what solid power.’ I miss Doug.”
It is not on-line, so, perhaps needless to say, Texas music fans really should pick the issue up. It’s a stellar interview.
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By Kitty Kombahtey
May 7, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this
Finally, with Bob’s blessing, Texas is cool again!