<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post115771772096131367..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115849293383652956</id><published>2006-09-17T07:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T07:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, you are a Slow Train Coming!Wright in one r...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, you are a &lt;B&gt;Slow Train Coming&lt;/B&gt;!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wright in one regard, tho.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not the first to fly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bobby Z., in the early 60&#39;s, &lt;B&gt;&#39;adopted&#39;&lt;/B&gt; an old Irish song, which he learned in clubs from the Clancy Brothers, &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;The Parting Song (Glass),&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt; which goes something like this: but which he called it &lt;B&gt;&lt;I&gt;The Restless Farewell&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And, in the 90&#39;s, Bob </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115849293383652956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115849293383652956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158492900000#c115849293383652956' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115826448412153102</id><published>2006-09-14T16:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-14T16:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>According to the Times article there are only four...</title><summary type='text'>According to the Times article there are only four instances of thievery from Timrod, and the lines aren&#39;t really that good. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course, Dylan can make poor lines sound like great poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I haven&#39;t heard the album.  I am still listening to Slow Train Coming.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115826448412153102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115826448412153102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158264480000#c115826448412153102' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115824211376594877</id><published>2006-09-14T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-14T09:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The New York Times on Dylan and Henry Timrod.</title><summary type='text'>The New York Times on &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Dylan and Henry Timrod&lt;/A&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115824211376594877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115824211376594877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158242100000#c115824211376594877' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115822144997721231</id><published>2006-09-14T04:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-14T04:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well spoken, Brett,  I could not agree more with w...</title><summary type='text'>Well spoken, Brett,  I could not agree more with what you wrote.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis Faville said...&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;B&gt;I wonder to what extent traditional folk composers of the last 750 years have indeed been thieves just as Dylan is now understood to have been.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And did you not just answer that question.  Yeah, is Curt&#39;s not a rhetorical question?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sure Curt understands the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115822144997721231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115822144997721231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158221400000#c115822144997721231' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115816701946462940</id><published>2006-09-13T13:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T13:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Folk music, like camp songs, are always changing a...</title><summary type='text'>Folk music, like camp songs, are always changing and full of theft.  Much of our own &#39;folk&#39; music is stolen and reshifted from old Irish tunes.  For example:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Second night when I got home, drunk as I could be, there&#39;s another coat on the coat rack, where my coat oughta be.  Explain this thing to me, how come another coat on the coatrack, where my coat oughta be?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh Crazy, oh </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115816701946462940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115816701946462940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158166980000#c115816701946462940' title=''/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115808344235959649</id><published>2006-09-12T13:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-12T13:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wonder to what extent traditional folk composers...</title><summary type='text'>I wonder to what extent traditional folk composers of the last 750 years have indeed been thieves just as Dylan is now understood to have been.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Will  Dylan be better remembered than the victims he has plagiarized from?  In that sense, is his culpability excusable, using the &quot;long&quot; view of posterity?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How much of the traditional ballads of the last 500 years is composed of &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115808344235959649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115808344235959649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1158083400000#c115808344235959649' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115790890787816849</id><published>2006-09-10T13:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-10T13:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Haven&#39;t listened to the album yet, but I saw Dylan...</title><summary type='text'>Haven&#39;t listened to the album yet, but I saw Dylan on tour a few months ago with this band. I found it much more energetic than what I hear on &lt;I&gt;Time Out of Mind&lt;/I&gt; &amp; &lt;I&gt;Love &amp; Theft&lt;/I&gt;. Live, in about the twelfth row on the floor, it was very lively rocking blues, &amp; entirely satisfying, including both new songs &amp; new takes on many old songs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the note on Dylan &amp; the album, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115790890787816849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115790890787816849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157908860000#c115790890787816849' title=''/><author><name>charles</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02186181900863150845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1267925125"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115779233224661020</id><published>2006-09-09T04:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T04:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>CorrectionWhen I said that most agree that Dylan&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;B&gt;Correction&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When I said that most agree that Dylan&#39;s bands from the early 90&quot;s were his best, I was in the wrong century, I mis-spoke.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I meant to say that his bands from the early 2000&#39;s (actually from around 1998 to 2003) were arguably his best bands.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115779233224661020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115779233224661020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157792280000#c115779233224661020' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115779037818992889</id><published>2006-09-09T04:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T04:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I loved your post about Dylan, especially the...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I loved your post about Dylan, especially the picture (though I prefer the wonderful portraits in the Modern Times package) but it sounds as if you are fishing and that you don’t really know what you are talking about.  But thanks for the links that commenters provided. I will surely check them out.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you read widely about Dylan’s bands there is some disagreement about what backing</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115779037818992889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115779037818992889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157790360000#c115779037818992889' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115776090767317553</id><published>2006-09-08T20:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T20:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Watching the recent documentary on Dylan you got t...</title><summary type='text'>Watching the recent documentary on Dylan you got the feeling he was a chameleon of sorts. From Guthrie to the village scene, to Henry Timrod(from what I&#39;ve read here), he was always slipping into the night with a bag full of new tricks. The other thing about Dylan, he was easier to get when he was younger. Overtime,though I don&#39;t know all there is to know, and am not really a serious fan, he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115776090767317553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115776090767317553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157760900000#c115776090767317553' title=''/><author><name>MorrisJacks</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02291962910581998734</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1558277271"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115775783067686441</id><published>2006-09-08T19:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T19:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I had knee surgery this morning.  When I got home ...</title><summary type='text'>I had knee surgery this morning.  When I got home I settled in on the couch and have been listening to &lt;I&gt;Modern Times&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Love and Theft&lt;/I&gt; this afternoon.  Convalescence and vicadin have allowed for extended listening.  (If only my dog were more cooperative.)  The band IS great.  I&#39;m looking forward to hearing them perform in St. Paul in October.  The song that really blew me away today</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115775783067686441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115775783067686441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157757780000#c115775783067686441' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15418310802340579561</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115775679086764068</id><published>2006-09-08T19:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T19:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Since Dylan backs that nimrod Timrod does it mean ...</title><summary type='text'>Since Dylan backs that nimrod Timrod does it mean that he&#39;s now in favor of slavery, too?  Just curious.  He IS wearing a black hat.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115775679086764068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115775679086764068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157756760000#c115775679086764068' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115774384202050606</id><published>2006-09-08T15:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T15:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My thanks to John Baltteim &amp; that member of the Ve...</title><summary type='text'>My thanks to John Baltteim &amp; that member of the Velvet Underground for pointing out that I had the wrong title for the Scorsese movie. Corrected now. Where I would be without diligent readers?! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Omby, you will note that I corrected that bit of redundancy yesterday that you noted. Thanks.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115774384202050606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115774384202050606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157743800000#c115774384202050606' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115774000780062834</id><published>2006-09-08T14:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T14:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I just listened to &quot;Desolation Row&quot; and see in my ...</title><summary type='text'>I just listened to &quot;Desolation Row&quot; and see in my post above I forgot to include Bette Davis, Noah, and Casanova among the  song&#39;s characters.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115774000780062834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115774000780062834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157739960000#c115774000780062834' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115773868892220777</id><published>2006-09-08T14:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T14:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That URL didn&#39;t come through (best to use TinyURL....</title><summary type='text'>That URL didn&#39;t come through (best to use TinyURL.com for those long ones), but it&#39;s just a recap of the Jonathan Lethem interview of Dylan in the current Rolling Stone.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773868892220777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773868892220777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157738640000#c115773868892220777' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115773523231156777</id><published>2006-09-08T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T13:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What Dylan thinks:http://today.reuters.com/news/ar...</title><summary type='text'>What Dylan thinks:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&amp;storyid=2006-08-22T152139Z_01_N22476890_RTRUKOC_0_US-DYLAN.xml</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773523231156777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773523231156777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157735220000#c115773523231156777' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315356369259909084</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115773513915544469</id><published>2006-09-08T13:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T13:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That Dylan Pool thread on Henry Timrod is one hell...</title><summary type='text'>That Dylan Pool thread on Henry Timrod is one hell of an interesting thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dylan has of course long borrowed.  A website that explores some of that is www.boblit.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My favorite Dylan literary borrowing is the line &quot;A perfect image of a priest&quot;  in about the middle of &quot;Desolation Row.&quot; It&#39;s lifted from Kerouac&#39;s &quot;Desolation Angels.&quot;  In Kerouac&#39;s book, the line describes the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773513915544469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773513915544469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157735100000#c115773513915544469' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115773016808741175</id><published>2006-09-08T11:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T11:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jerome Arnold was Butterfield&#39;s bass player on bot...</title><summary type='text'>Jerome Arnold was Butterfield&#39;s bass player on both of the first two LPs. Billy Davenport, a drummer with a jazz background, took over for the ailing Sam Lay in 1965. Elvin Bishop sang lead on several cuts and played an inventive second lead guitar on the influential long pieces, &quot;Work Song&quot; and &quot;East-West.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773016808741175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115773016808741175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157730120000#c115773016808741175' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115772787235669730</id><published>2006-09-08T11:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T11:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The best discussion of the Timrod-Dylan connection...</title><summary type='text'>The best discussion of the Timrod-Dylan connection comes from the Dylan Pool listserv:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A&gt;http://pool.dylantree.com/phorum5/read.php?1,642969&lt;/A&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115772787235669730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115772787235669730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157727840000#c115772787235669730' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115772266708365005</id><published>2006-09-08T09:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T09:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was hoping you&#39;d comment at least glancingly on ...</title><summary type='text'>I was hoping you&#39;d comment at least glancingly on Dylan&#39;s heavy drawing on (theft from) Henry Timrod, &quot;called &lt;I&gt;The Poet Laureate of the Confederacy&lt;/I&gt; by Alfred Lord Tennyson. . . . With the outbreak of war, Henry returned to Charleston, soon publishing his best known poems, which drew many young men to enlist in the service of the Confederacy. His best known poems of the time are Ethnogenesis</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115772266708365005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115771772096131367/comments/default/115772266708365005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html?showComment=1157722620000#c115772266708365005' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/listening-to-modern-times-new-album-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115771772096131367' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115771772096131367' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 08, 2006"/></entry></feed>