NP: Re: more new Dylan

[Johnny Marr]

Meant to add: the Vox pops on the New Jersey African-American population on
the subject of Hurricane Carter provide another memorable segment - the
Scorsese documentary would have benefited from its inclusion

On Saturday, April 25, 2020, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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