Do you think Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize?
Yes. I am a very, very big fan. His writing has had as much impact in my life as any other single human.
Why a Pulitzer prize in writing for a musician? Here is why… what author do you listen to every day? Or even once a year? No matter how great a book is, you read it and it’s over. when music is great, you listen often… over and over? you can have sex listening to music, you can’t do it on a book. I listen to Dylan almost daily, and I can’t even say that about Alice in Wonderland!
Do you have a favorite Bob Dylan song?
This would change annually, but of late it has been ‘Positively 4th St’. This came from such an amazingly fruitful time (’68) that it wasn’t even put on an album. Here is how much I love Bob – I have 6 Cds and 9 box sets and 4 dvd collections ALL that just cover his first 6 years.
How would you describe Dylan to someone who is unfamiliar?
Funny, thoughtful… folky. In that order
Who else deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature?
The rebels and outsiders – Herman Hesse, Hunter Thompson, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac.
What performance artist stands a chance of also winning the Nobel Prize?
What do you mean by performance artist? Like… an actor or musician? Like… a non painting artist? Bill Murray
*** for more of my writing on Bob Dylan, here is a link to some of the pieces I have written on my music site. Odds are, Bob comes up more than any other artist on that site.
Now, enjoy this. Richie Havens covering Bob Dylan’s ‘just like a woman’. Nothing better than this – the best covering the best!
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