Bob Dylan - plagiarism?

[spinynorman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19586129

Could be worse, he could be in a tribute band.

[wateroftyne]

Nice to see he's in a cantankerous mood.

He's right. That genre plagarises itself left, right and centre, and has done for generations. It's nothing new. (sic)

The album is great, btw.

Edited September 13, 2012 by wateroftyne

[Happy Jack]

About time this sort of thing was stopped.

If I had my way, the only music we'd all be allowed to listen to would be original recordings by Robert Johnson plus anything by Anon or Trad.

[flyfisher]

. . . . which is sort of what they do in the classical music world.

[Panamonte]

As you can see from this longer excerpt from the RS interview the BBC held back from quoting him in full - good to see that he's not mellowing in his 8th decade!

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And yes, the new album is better than I expected - certainly better than his last one.

[Cat Burrito]

Great quotes from the man

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1347541315' post='1802154']
About time this sort of thing was stopped.

If I had my way, the only music we'd all be allowed to listen to would be original recordings by Robert Johnson plus anything by Anon or Trad.
[/quote]

Is there any other sort?

As an aside, I read the book 'Escaping the Delta' and according to the auther, Mr Johnson plagiarised his contempories

Just saying like.......................

Edited September 13, 2012 by Blademan_98

[spinynorman]

[quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1347559040' post='1802478']
Is there any other sort?

As an aside, I read the book 'Escaping the Delta' and according to the auther, Mr Johnson plagiarised his contempories

Just saying like.......................
[/quote]

Did you get to the end of that book? I found it very hard going.

In a simple twist of fate, the point of "escaping the delta" is that blues as slave work songs was a pure invention of folkies like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who of course tried to pull the plug on Dylan at Newport, and may well be the ones that called him Judas.

[Blademan_98]

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1347633067' post='1803363']


Did you get to the end of that book? I found it very hard going.

In a simple twist of fate, the point of "escaping the delta" is that blues as slave work songs was a pure invention of folkies like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, who of course tried to pull the plug on Dylan at Newport, and may well be the ones that called him Judas.
[/quote]

I did not finish it as it rather killed my idea of the blues.