Bob Dylan is the greatest songwriter
Many are blaming Dylan to hire an "annoying diva" attitude in its making be desired. To date, in fact, it is still unknown if the artist will receive the award. The ceremony is scheduled on December 10 in Sweden.
Retrace the events: October 13, 2016, the Swedish Academy assigns the Dylan Nobel Prize for Literature, with the following motivation: "For creating new poetic expressions in the great tradition of American song." To date not yet known whether the artist will receive the award, the ceremony is scheduled on December 10 in Sweden. Dylan did not respond to repeated attempts to contact by the Academy to him, took place in the days immediately following his appointment.
We must say that Dylan, for twenty years now, playing almost every day. I went to listen to him in November of last year. Concert in the theater for 700 people. Superb. At 75 years he has not yet grown tired of traveling the world and playing with that same professionalism and the same of the past, although it has more 60,000 people in front of him. This is not an attitude of divo. Publishes new discs. It does not perform the usual "workhorse" because it does not like to please his audience and always has been in its own way "independent and against the grain." This is Dylan, always. So what to be surprised now? They seem more "divi" the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney playing three or four times a year, always and only in big events. Bob Dylan and Neil Young in this way give a great lesson to all, love for music and dedication to their work.
Some, like Baricco in Italian and Irvine Welsh have also argued that Bob Dylan has nothing to do with literature. Even this statement is highly questionable, in my opinion. In fact, poetry is born, before writing, the oral form of singing in which the semantic meaning is linked to the musical sound of the phonemes managing to convey concepts and states in an evocative and powerful spirit. You should remember the bards and Greek rhapsodists, jesters, minstrels, Celtic bards, troubadours or trouvères of the French Middle Ages.
I am convinced that Dylan's voice and his artistic approach have an underground link with all this tradition of poetic origins. His voice seems to come from beyond today, beyond the time to tell us a story: that of the human story. The man's journey in the world. Dylan's literature, and how if it is not. De André's literature.
Finally, today I read an article about the pitiful IL POST about Bob Dylan. An article which referred to certain judgments expressed, I believe, from the "also director of Luca Sofri about the artist. Carry some amazing phrases:
"Musical and melodic inventiveness even Dire Straits have given more"
"I own six cd Bob Dylan and I think that there is only one disc in which Dylan does not appear at least a couple of mediocre songs "
"I think that the relationship between its overproduction and notable songs is very high, like twenty one" (that is, published so much mediocre stuff and little good stuff)
Dear "also director" I think that the mere claim that Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is more creative than Bob Dylan is a statement which speaks for itself and reveals a total musical incompetence. Have you ever listened to, among others:
The Freewheelin '
The Times They Are a-Changin '
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the tracks
Oh mercy
Desire
Time out of mind
Love and Theft?
Today there is a great songwriter who, by his own admission, has not claimed to be shaped by Dylan and love for music and lyrics. Some names?
David Bowie
Lou Reed
Nick Drake <
Neil Young
Nick Cave <
Leonard Cohen
Bruce Springsteen
Stevie Wonder
De André
Bryan Ferry
Mike Watt
Roger Waters
Paul Simon
David Gilmour
Keith Richards
Patti Smith
Iggy Pop
Jack White
Glen Hansard
Tom Waits
etc.
