Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Song
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Listen now (11 min) | Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn Jillette recently put it. He towers above others—Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell—through volume, range, and brash unpredictability. In the past decade he has retooled Frank Sinatra crooning (
Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Song
Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of…
Hero Blues: Bob Dylan's Twisted Philosophy of Song
Listen now (11 min) | Throughout his sixty-year-plus career, Bob Dylan has combined an “incredible skill with a wildness of spirit,” as magician Penn Jillette recently put it. He towers above others—Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell—through volume, range, and brash unpredictability. In the past decade he has retooled Frank Sinatra crooning (