Bob Dylan has named Metallica, Leonard Cohen, Brenda Lee, and Eminem amongst his favourite artists, and revealed that his present playlist features a festive observe by Frank Sinatra, a blues-rock gem by Free, and an Ella Fitzgerald traditional. He makes the revelations as a part of a brand new and uncommon interview with Jeff Slate for the Wall Street Journal, additionally featured on Dylan’s web site.
“I listen to CDs, satellite radio and streaming,” says Dylan. “I do love the sound of old vinyl though, especially on a tube record player from back in the day.” He provides of his latest listening: “I stroll into issues intuitively once I’m almost certainly not in search of something. Tiny Hill, Teddy Edwards, individuals like that. Obscure artists, obscure songs. There’s a track by Jimmy Webb that Frank Sinatra recorded referred to as, ‘Whatever Happened to Christmas,’ I feel he recorded it within the 60s, however I simply found it.
“Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘A-Tiskit, A-Tasket.’ Janice Martin, the female Elvis. Have you heard her? Joe Turner is always surprising me with little nuances and things. I listen to Brenda Lee a lot. No matter how many times I hear her, it’s like I just discovered her. She’s such an old soul. Lately, I discovered a fantastic guitar player, Teddy Bunn. I heard him on a Meade Lux Lewis – Sid Catlett record.”
Dylan reveals eclectic style in his alternative of artists outdated and new. “Performers and songwriters recommend things to me,” he says. “Others I just wake up and they’re there. Some I’ve seen live. The Oasis Brothers, I like them both, Julian Casablancas, the Klaxons, Grace Potter. I’ve seen Metallica twice. I’ve made special efforts to see Jack White and Alex Turner. Zac Deputy, I’ve discovered him lately. He’s a one man show like Ed Sheeran, but he sits down when he plays. I’m a fan of Royal Blood, Celeste, Rag and Bone Man, Wu-Tang, Eminem, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, anybody with a feeling for words and language, anybody whose vision parallels mine.”
Other alternatives by the nice bard embrace gems from the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, one by the previous Guns N’ Roses bassist, and a classical discovery. “‘Waterloo Sunset’ [by the Kinks] is on my playlist and that was recorded in the 60s. ‘[The] Stealer,’ the Free song, that’s been there a while too, along with Leadbelly and the Carter Family. There’s a Duff McKagan song called ‘Chip Away,’ that has profound meaning for me. It’s a graphic song…Dvorak, ‘Moravian Duets.’ I just discovered that, but it’s over 100 years old.”
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