jim fusilli thinks it derivative and filled w/ missed opportunities for attribution because the album states "all songs written by bob dylan." joe levy found it masterful and on par w earlier works such as blond on blond. and that influence is part of the folk, country, blues tradition, but that he too found the lack of credit troubling.
the two major examples were thunder on the mountain for the berry influence and rollin' and tumblin'.
thunder does sound berry like but levy points out that berry rewrote the lyrics for country tune ida red to transform it into his hit song mabeline. and they all agreed berry picked up most of his licks from t bone walker and louis jordan. in dylans current version he is looking all over the place for alicia keys (funny as hell).
an almost identical rollin' and tumblin' was recorded by muddy waters in the 1940s and roll and tumble blues was recorded in 1929 by hambone willy newbern.
to me the controversy is written into the album on purpose and we are all the better for having to hash it out. it reminds us that modernism is largely defined by modern copyright law. this strategy seems ok to me, but apparently almost everyone else finds the lack of riggerous attribution troubling.
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the two major examples were thunder on the mountain for the berry influence and rollin' and tumblin'.
thunder does sound berry like but levy points out that berry rewrote the lyrics for country tune ida red to transform it into his hit song mabeline. and they all agreed berry picked up most of his licks from t bone walker and louis jordan. in dylans current version he is looking all over the place for alicia keys (funny as hell).
an almost identical rollin' and tumblin' was recorded by muddy waters in the 1940s and roll and tumble blues was recorded in 1929 by hambone willy newbern.
to me the controversy is written into the album on purpose and we are all the better for having to hash it out. it reminds us that modernism is largely defined by modern copyright law. this strategy seems ok to me, but apparently almost everyone else finds the lack of riggerous attribution troubling.
- bill 9-08-2006 11:29 pm