Pop Icons : A Dying Breed

An era of American superstar icon status in the realm of entertainment/pop culture is fading ever faster with the passing of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.
In the world of immediacy, attention disorders and frankly, a severe shortage of talent...the pop culture icon is a dying breed...
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's only a handful left...

• Bob Dylan
• Willie Nelson
• Madonna
• Bruce Springsteen
• Prince
• Iggy Pop
• Raquel Welch
  
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Jack Nicholson
• Woody Allen
  
• David Letterman
  

...let us know if you think of any others...
It seems unfathomable that anyone will ever achieve the type of celebrity Jackson or Fawcett were able to achieve and especially the manner in which they became so incredibly popular.

Related:
More than just a pin-up: A tribute to actress Farrah Fawcett

Bloodletting with Bob

On the face of it, it's a strange example of product synergy, but Bob Dylan lending his song "Beyond Here Lies Nothing" for a new promo for the upcoming second season of True Blood makes perfect sense. Dylan's latest album, Together Through Life, just came out, and his fans have a certain amount of blood lust, so it's a win/win, right?
more w/video HERE
another version HERE
True Blood 1st season DVD available HERE

Bob Dylan : In the Ballpark

Bob Dylan has just announced an ambitious line-up for this year's summer concert tour. Along with fellow troubadour Willie Nelson, this summer The Bob Dylan Show will also feature John Mellencamp, marking just the second time in the past 24 years that these three performers have shared the concert stage.
All concert tickets are priced at $67.50 and most shows are general admission, allowing fans to grab a seat in the stands or find a place to watch from the field. Tickets will go on sale throughout the month of May and will be available at the local ballpark ticket office and affiliated ticket outlets. There is no baseball game on the day of the show. *Children 14 and under get in free with each adult ticket holder.
Showtime is 5:30pm and gates open at 5:00. Gates will open at 4:30 for holders of bobdylan.com pre-sale tickets.
Together Through Life will be released by Columbia Records on April 28. Order the CD, Vinyl, Digital*, or Limited Edition CD/DVD edition today from the official Bob Dylan online store.

Backstage with Bob Dylan

see it HERE

'The Dead' On 'The View'

Yes, this morning Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Warren Haynes not only appeared on 'The View' in an interview segment but also performed the Grateful Dead classic: Friend of the Devil.
video HERE

It's official, WE'VE SEEN EVERYTHING...next week Ted Nugent and Bob Dylan in a duet?

Casette Tape Creativety

THIS series showcases a number of portraits of musicians made out of recycled cassette tape with original cassette.

Streaming Dylan

National Public Radio's website will be the first place fans can hear the next Bob Dylan album, the eighth installment of his "bootleg series" of rare or previously unreleased recordings from the past two decades.
The entire double-CD Tell Tale Signs (Columbia Records) will be available to listeners on NPR's website as a stream starting just after midnight tonight. You can hear it there any time from September 30 to at least October 7 when the album officially goes on sale.

R.I.P.: Jerry Wexler

Pioneering music executive Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a rhythm and blues powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s with artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, died in Florida on Friday at age 91.
His influence was not limited to R&B. He helped guide the careers of many artists, including rockers Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits and the B-52's, as well as Bob Dylan and country star Willie Nelson.
obit HERE

Big Bob's Birthday

Rock Royalty

Vintage Jimi

The Story of The Traveling Wilburys

Patti Smith presents Bob Dylans' life story

A free series of official Bob Dylan podcasts presented by Patti Smith have been made available online.
Ten short casts have already been posted telling the story of Dylan's career chronologically and it is anticipated that the series will eventually run to about 20 episodes, forming a two-hour documentary.
The tenth episode, which was posted this week, took the story up to the late 1970s and the beginning of the 'born again' period.
With Smith acting as the presenter, each includes Dylan recordings and historic interview snippets with the man himself plus contributions from musicians such as Roger McGuinn and Garth Hudson and commentators including the author Greil Marcus.

Get them HERE

Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson

"Angels Flying Too Close To The Ground" mp3
by Bob Dylan, 1983
available on UK Single "Union Sundown"

Since it's Keiths' B-day Month...let's celebrate

Downloads:
"A Deuce and A Quarter" mp3
Keith Richards and Levon Helm, 1997.
available on All the King's Men

"Say It's Not You" mp3
George Jones and Keith Richards, 1994.
available on Bradley Barn Sessions

"Tanqueray" mp3
Johnnie Johnson with Keith Richards, 1991.
available on Johnnie B. Bad

"That Kind of Fool" mp3
Jerry Lee Lewis with Keith Richards, 2006.
available on Last Man Standing - The Duets

"Little Queenie" mp3
Keith Richards and Jerry Lee Lewis, 1983.
available on Rolling His Own (bootleg)

"Let it Rock" mp3
Rockpile with Keith Richards, 1978
available on Elvis Goes To Washington
and Dave Edmunds and Rockpile Don't (bootleg)

"Worried Life Blues" mp3
Keith Richards and Ian Stewart, 1977.
available on Rolling His Own (bootleg)

"Dark Eyes" mp3
Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, and Keith Richards, 1985
Backstage at Live Aid (bootleg)

"Over The Rainbow" mp3
Keith Richards and Bobby Keys, 1981.
(bootleg)

Bob and Jack-Norah and Willie

Bob Dylan has acquired the unfinished songs that were in Hank Williams briefcase when he died and has enlisted some friends to finish and record the songs for a project.

Jack White recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville along with engineer Joe Chiccarelli, Dominic Suchyta on upright bass, Carla Azar (Autolux) on drums, Donny Herron (Bob Dylan, BR549) on 8-string guitar and Dean Fertita (Raconteurs, Waxwings) on acoustic guitar. “We did the session in one long day,” Suchyta says of the secret taping, “live in a circle with some mics around—much like Hank would have.”

They recorded an unfinished Williams song called “You Know That I Know.” “No one has heard it as it was a Hank Williams lyric sheet that Jack put to music and edited a bit,” says Suchyta. “Jack was sent most of or all of the unfinished tunes and picked this one to finish. We listened to quite a bit of Hank while I was down there and sat around the two of us playing our favorite Hank tunes, but the song was done when I got there. I think Jack just ingested a bunch of Hank Williams and this is what came out of him.”

The entire participant list is still under wraps as is the project.

Awarding Gordon Lightfoot 1986

Bob Dylan Pimps for Caddy...

See it HERE

The Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time

See them HERE.