NP: Re: more new Dylan

[Johnny Marr]

Finished watching Renaldo and Clara last night (I found it on Vimeo), has
anybody else seen it? I enjoyed it overall, I can understand why Dylan
might feel reluctant to share some of the contents (isn’t he embarrassed
about some of the Sara Dylan material?) but it’s a pleasingly shaggy
picaresque pseudodocumentary portrayal of an extraordiny tour.

True to the spirit of TRP amongst others; also seems to bear the influence
Augie March, Altman (particularly Nashville - Ronee Blakley features),
Jonas Mekas, Woodstock and Medium Cool. Les Enfants Du Paradis is another
acknowledged touchstone, but I also feel there’s a lot of the Nouvelle
Vague-follow on if the early 1979s - plenty of Rivette and Eustache.
There’s even a graveside visit to Kerouac (although Ginsberg misleadingly
claims that Keats is buried next to Shelley, when their gravestones are in
different parts of the Cemeterio Acottolica. Fake news!)

The celebrated performanceS of Isis and Tangled Up In Blue are included,
but it transpires that by no means all of the best musical clips were
recycled in the Scorsese film (which is not an edited highlights, more a
part-palimpsest, part-teasing revisitation of R&C). That said, it doesn’t
have the incredible Joni Mitchell performance of Coyote, which of course
was written about her experiences on the tour (with oblique focus on Sam
Shepard)

R&C also features the roughest version of House of the Rising Son that I’ve
ever heard, in a duet between Dylan and Rob Stoner. I mean that approvingly!

On Saturday, April 25, 2020, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> And bringing it all full circle, his "I'm" is a contraction of "I Am,"
> God's most primal message.  God is everything that exists in all its many
> changes, or so She says to many poets.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:01 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > With his putting himself into the mix with his "I'm..." it also becomes
> > a bit like a boasting rap.  Is rap poetry?  I think words meant to be
> mixed
> > with music can't be judged sans music.
> >
> > Most Def, rap be poetry.   Dylan is a spoken word artist, and I'm not
> > just talking bout "Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie." Gil Scott Heron
> > doing Subterranean Homesick Blues and Dylan can cover This Revolution
> > Will not be Televised, sure. Imagine Patti Smith and Tom Waits on the
> > same mic. In the FQ. Man, that'd be some shit.
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