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Bob Feels Pulse Of Changing TimemI was pouring over the stacks in the folk music section at the record store yesterday looking for something worth reviewing. Flipping Beatle albums and rock and roll records over my soulder,— things are all over the place,— I came upon Bob Dylan’s new album, 1 didn’t intend to review another Dylan album for a while, but after listening to it I think it is rather important. It is important in that it shows a tjoo Dylan who nas grown without losing his insight Into his own generation, 1 think I can alsosafely predict that it won’t beBong before we see some of the •‘songs taken up by singers with a^wider appeal. This will give thosewho just can't stand Dylan’s voice. a chance to hear some of the songs.The album is ten songs long. The shortest song runs around two and a half minutes and the longest is a marathon seven minutes. The label is Columbia and the title 1 “Rob Dvian; The Times Thev Are a Changin' , Two of the songs are relatively well known Dylan- tunes, “With God on Our Side” has been heard and applauded by many audiences* f think it is one of Dylan's most effective songs to date. The tune “Only A Pawn In Their Game Is also familiar. There is a ballad in this album which, as most ballads do, tells a story. Unlike most ballads the hero is not a lord, a Robin Hood, or a jilted lover. He is a shanty dweller watching his family starve. Romantic huh? The thing that keeps the listener thinking is that although Dylan stops singing the song it never really enas. The liame,' by the way is “The Ballad of Hollis Brown”. The theme song of the album is “The Times Thev Are a Changin' , Here one cleariy ©«ses Bob Dylan's growth in ideas and the strengthening ofiTHE SPY WHO CAME IN FROMTHE COLDBy John LeCar raIf you are fascinated by the life of a spy, desire to penetrate theshroud of secrecy and suspense which covers his daily operations and willing to share the frustrating sacrifice of a spy who is too old and of no use to his own government except as a guinea pig in a world where “justice is murder then you must read the number one best seller, John Le Carre's “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,John LeCarre, a pseudonym for David Cornwell, who is a British civil servant presently employed in one of the Whithall ministries, shows us that truth is sometimes, stranger than fiction, At one time a spy in the service of England, he is no stranger to the internationalhis formidable talent. Maybe the quote that Bob Dylan “has his finger on the pulse of our generation is true. On the back of the jacket and on an insert there are eleven epitaphs written by Dylan. I won't attempt to make any judgments on their poetical qualities but I will say they are interesting.I suppose the usual complaints on Dylan’s voice can be voiced. Well, as I said the songs will be taken up by other singers. I think that with Dylan the most important thing is not his voice or delivery. What he is saying or trying to say gives the album its essential value,Dave F res chiCAPTAIN NEWMANPsychologists beware, Captain Newman is in town. And where is he? I I At the County Cinema of course.bealighlinTwriofchaexpevelifesupererifivivjthewhiTailt;inChanovenjt
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Fairfield Stag
Fairfield, Connecticut, US
Wed, Mar 25, 1964
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