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  • Re: Supposedly this is Bob Dylan's favorite singer

    From Will-Dockery@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 14 18:18:38 2025
    Will Dockery wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    He said "My favorite singer...was Karen Dalton. Karen
    had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed... I
    sang with her a couple of times."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-ZlmWO-ps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNIHvRKzpD0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iltA6LDcwpM




    Of course this changes from time to time.

    In 1978 Bob Dylan's favorite singer was the Egyptian pop star
    Om Kalsoum:


    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dylan-19780126

    Dylan: This film ["Renaldo & Clara"] concerns
    itself only with the depth of the dream - the dream as seen in the
    mirror. The next film might have some blood. I'm trying to locate Lois
    Smith to be in it. She would represent the idea of innocence. Do you
    know who she is? She was the barmaid in East of Eden. I'm trying to
    line up some people for the film, and I can't find her. For some
    reason I've just thought of my favorite singer.

    Cott: Who is that?

    Dylan: Om Kalsoum - the Egyptian woman who died a few years
    ago. She was my favorite.

    Cott: What did you like about her?

    Dylan: It was her heart.

    Cott: Do you like dervish and Sufi singing, by the way?

    Dylan: Yeah, that's where my singing really comes from...except
    that I sing in America. I've heard too much Lead-belly really to be
    too much influenced by the whirling dervishes.

    Cott: Now that we somehow got onto this subject, who else do
    you like right now? New Wave groups?

    Dylan: No, I'm not interested in them. I think Alice Cooper is
    an overlooked songwriter. I like Ry Cooder. And I like Dave Mason's
    version of something, which is on the jukebox right now.

    Read more:
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dylan-19780126#ixzz40SCS17ed
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    Re: Supposedly this is Bob Dylan's favorite singer

    General-Zod wrote:



    Of interest...

    My friend Taylor loves the music of Karen Dalton.


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  • From Will-Dockery@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 31 19:05:33 2025
    General-Zod wrote:
    Will Dockery wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    He said "My favorite singer…was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed… I sang with her a couple of times."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-ZlmWO-ps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNIHvRKzpD0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iltA6LDcwpM


    Of course this changes from time to time.

    In 1978 Bob Dylan's favorite singer was the Egyptian pop star Om Kalsoum:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dyla n-19780126

    Dylan: This film ["Renaldo & Clara"] concerns itself only with
    the depth of the dream - the dream as seen in the mirror. The next film might have some blood. I'm trying to locate Lois Smith to be in it. She would represent the idea of innocence. Do you know who she is? She was the barmaid in East of Eden. I'm trying to line up some people for the film, and I can't find her. For some reason I've just thought of my favorite singer.

    Cott: Who is that?

    Dylan: Om Kalsoum - the Egyptian woman who died a few years ago. She was my favorite.

    Cott: What did you like about her?

    Dylan: It was her heart.

    Cott: Do you like dervish and Sufi singing, by the way?

    Dylan: Yeah, that's where my singing really comes from...except that I sing in America. I've heard too much Lead-belly really to be too much influenced by the whirling dervishes.

    Cott: Now that we somehow got onto this subject, who else do you like right now? New Wave groups?

    Dylan: No, I'm not interested in them. I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked songwriter. I like Ry Cooder. And I like Dave Mason's version of something, which is on the jukebox right now.

    Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dyla n-19780126#ixzz40SCS17ed
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    Re: Supposedly this is Bob Dylan's favorite singer


    Of interest...


    Yes, in the days before the Internet information like this was difficult to research.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=676381524#676381524

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