I just heard yesterday that Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I am so happy that the Nobel Committee decided to recognize one of America's premier lyricists...Dylan had a way with words (...my favorite Dylan lyric??? It MUST be Jim Craik's signature line, a lyric line from My Back Pages..."Aaah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now!") that cannot be matched. He was rock steady, he did his own thing and didn't give a damn about what others thought or said and he has remained relevant throughout the decades that he has been productive.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621
...and yet another review by the N.Y. Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html
Dylan was THE poet laureate for our generation (yes, I do consider myself a bald-headed old fart), and there were a LOT.
Cheers for the Nobel Committee for recognizing one of America's most productive and literate artists. He has mastered the art of "Forever Young", long may we all!
Doug
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621
...and yet another review by the N.Y. Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/music/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html
Dylan was THE poet laureate for our generation (yes, I do consider myself a bald-headed old fart), and there were a LOT.
Cheers for the Nobel Committee for recognizing one of America's most productive and literate artists. He has mastered the art of "Forever Young", long may we all!
Doug
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