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   Rachel to Zod   
   Re: Dylan sleevenotes for Dion releases   
   28 Aug 21 13:59:10   
   
   From: roach4994@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 1:53:47 PM UTC-7, Zod wrote:   
   > On Saturday, 28 August 2021 at 15:49:18 UTC-4, Rachel wrote:    
   > > > > > > > On Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 12:33:54 PM UTC-7, K. Hematite   
   wrote:    
   > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 at 05:03:19 UTC-4, Christopher   
   Rollason wrote:    
   > >    
   > > > > > > > > > Dylan has twice contributed to sleevenotes for releases by   
   Dion (Di Mucci). The most recent is for an album called Blues With Friends   
   released in 2020. Before that was a box set called King of the New York   
   Streets which came out in 2000.   
       
   > > > > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > > > I have located Dylan's 2020 notes but not those from 2000.   
   Does anyone have them? If you do could you post them on the group?    
   > > > > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance!    
   > > > > > > > > "King of the New York Streets" is a 3-CD box tracing Dion's   
   musical history. Liner notes are found in s 48-page booklet, most of which   
   consists of David Marsh's comments about Dion's life in the Bronx and beyond   
   and about the various    
   influences on his music. Page 33 is given over to Dylan's one-page comment on   
   Dion and it goes like this:    
   > > > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > > "The voice of Dion came exploding out of what Allen Ginsberg   
   called 'the hydrogen jukebox" in the fifties -- the hush hush age. Torn right   
   from the start, he had it magically together in the mythic sense --   
   level-headed and trustworthy,    
   rhythmically there's no mayhem -- just a sense of wonder. In his voice he   
   tells the untold story in the seemingly secret language. How else do you   
   explain the soulfulness of 'Teenager in Love'? An unknowing ear would say it's   
   a song about youthful    
   claptrap but it's not, not anymore than Tampa Red's 'Let Me Play With Your   
   Poodle' is not about dogs. You can hear it in his haunted voice -- street   
   corner hokum sure, but also barrelhouse blues, the honky-tonk world -- even   
   the most sophisticated    
   crooner in the articulate way -- it's all there to put a spell on you. I saw   
   Dion way back there when he followed Ritchie Valens and preceded Link Wray and   
   the Wraymen. Ritchie could pitch you over the fence and Link made you feel   
   like you wanted to take    
   a grotesque despotic world and hang it with barbed wire, but Dion was no less   
   brilliant -- his level was cool-headed, made you feel longing, excited and   
   entranced. 'Ruby Baby' is severe, round the clock -- listen you'll see.   
   Satire, cunning, fidelity, it'   
   s all there in spades. Great singers pass by us like a parade of nobility.   
   There's just something about them that rises above superficial culture. Dion   
   comes from a time when so-so singers couldn't cut it -- they either never got   
   heard or got exposed    
   quick and got out of the way. To have it, you really had to have it, no smoke   
   and mirrors then -- not a minute to spare --rough and ready -- glorious and   
   grand -- grieving with heartache and feeling too much but still with the   
   always 'better not try it'    
   attitude. If you want to hear a great singer, listen to Dion. His voice takes   
   it's [sic] color from all pallets-- he's never lost it -- his genius has never   
   deserted him."    
   > > > > > >    
   > > > > > > > is there a reason the word pallet was chosen, over pallete ?    
   > > > > > > My pathetic excuse is pure carelessness. I didn't even notice that   
   the word had been misspelled and therefore required an appropriate [sic].   
   Dylan's excuse may be that he used to be a folksinger and had "Make Me a   
   Pallet on Your Floor" going    
   through his head when he wrote the comment on Dion.    
   > > > > > but that's about a bed (i googled the lyrics)    
   > > > > i guess it's the LLL influence, all the colors bleeding into one, like   
   mordant.    
   > > > the idiot wind, what's good is bad, what's bad is good, clash of the   
   titans... (horrible movie)    
   > > i painted it all black. (got stoned and passed out in the middle, it was   
   song #3 after wwrf and ahragf (always think it's called where have you been,   
   my blue eyed son....)   
   > Hi there Rachel...!!   
      
   bonjour. what are you doing in the dylan group?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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