Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
On November 21, 1965, Bob Dylan walked onto the stage at Loew’s State Theater (now the Landmark) for the second half of his concert. As he and his band (The Band) cranked up their electric set, a voice from the crowd yelled “Dylan, play Dylan,” a plaintive criticism of his legendary performance earlier that year at the Newport Folk Festival. Musically, for Dylan, “The times they were ‘a changin’.”
In the nearly 44 year s since that night, Dylan has, indeed, “played Dylan.” He has risen several times to the status of icon – folk, rock, folk rock, pop, country, whatever label people might put on it, Dylan’s music has always been just that – Dylan’s music...
