Writing about BOB DYLAN: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, Morley Walker of the Winnipeg Free Press said, “This tome, about the influence Dylan’s Jewish roots play in his songs, joins Christopher Ricks’s Visions of Sin as a must-read for pointy-headed Dylanologists. No matter how obscure the Old Testament reference, rest assured that Rogovoy has unearthed it. “
“a must-read for pointy-headed Dylanologists” – Winnipeg Free Press
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010New review written by an Italian poet from the 21st century: ‘That song and poetic free a jew named Bob Dylan’
Monday, May 31st, 2010A new review of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet appears in an edition of Mosaico, apparently a Jewish journal in Italy. The review is in Italian, but you can get the gist of it — or ask Google to translate it for you, which gives you the funny title above.
Apparently the review calls the writer a “scholar” (studioso) whose “attentive analysis” shows how the Talmud, Torah and Kabbalah are for Dylan inexhaustable sources of inspiration and wisdom that he uses with diverse approaches during his entire career. I’ll take it.
Happy Traum and Seth Rogovoy co-host Dylan birthday tribute concert in Woodstock, N.Y.
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Seth Rogovoy and Happy Traum will co-host the The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Second Annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration on Saturday, May 22, 2010, at 8pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, N.Y., part of the historic Byrdcliffe artist’s colony in that famed town.
Traum, a guitarist, folk legend, and former Dylan sideman, will perform and share hosting duties with Rogovoy, the author of BOB DYLAN: Prophet Mystic Poet, and a singer-guitarist himself. Copies of the book will be on sale and available for signing at the event.
Other performers include indie-folk songstress Kelleigh McKenzie; roots music/Celtic fiddler Alex Caton;Jason Sarubbi and Sean Schenker of The Trapps; singer/songwriter, Dean Batstone; Frank McGinnis, of the powerpop/rock band By Land or Sea (formerly Frankie and His Fingers), eclectic folk-rocker, Doug Yoel; Tasa Kvistad and Rob Pisano of the acoustic duo, Tasa and Rob.
Tickets are $20/$15 WBG members. For more information and to purchase tickets contact the WBG at 845.679.2079 or go to www.woodstockguild.org.
Sean Wilentz defends Dylan against Joni Mitchell’s purported charges of ‘plagiarism’
Saturday, May 1st, 2010While Joni Mitchell’s comments were probably misunderstood, overstated
just to be provocative, or taken out of context, Sean Wilentz does a great job putting into context the simmering controversy over Bob Dylan’s sampling of previously existing lyrical and musical material.
“In light of Dylan’s lifetime of spiritual and religious seeking, there might be a second level of meaning in the blood on these tracks” – PopMatters
Thursday, April 29th, 2010“The question of Dylan’s religious affiliation has been brought back to the forefront because of Seth Rogovoy’s book, Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet. In light of Dylan’s lifetime of spiritual and religious seeking, there might be a second level of meaning in the blood on these tracks; perhaps he is also alluding to the blood of sacrifice, known to him in the sacrificial system of the Hebrew Scriptures.” – Jim Mello, “Bargaining for Salvation,” PopMatters
