Chronological set of interviews, which get better as time goes on.
Love this bit from 2006:
“I can’t stand to play arenas, but I do play ’em. But I know that’s not where music’s supposed to be. It’s not meant to be heard in football stadiums, it’s not ‘Hey, how are you doin’ tonight, Cleveland?’ Nobody gives a shit how you’re doing tonight in Cleveland… They say, ‘Dylan never talks.’ What the hell is there to SAY! That’s not the reason an artist is front of people.”
Hell yeah, when you put it that way.
What comes through over and over, interview after interview, is Bob’s roots in folk music, and love and respect for (and encyclopedic knowledge of) those old songs and traditions and musicians who came before him. People who think folk was just a youthful phase or a mercenary way for him to break into the business don’t get it. “Those old songs are my lexicon and my prayer book,” he says in 1997, and I believe him.
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