“Dylan does not necessarily have the Nobel Prize” – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Bob Dylan turns 75 years old today and is celebrated all over the globe, from Grünerløkka to Woodstock.

Norwegian Literature set the tone at the square at 17.00 in the afternoon with a conversation about Dylan and his art between the undersigned and two professors, literary Gisle Selnes and Elisabeth Eide of journalism and media studies.

Dylan is anything but passive, even though he is now three quarters on the way to a hundred. He comes straight from a 16 concerts tour in Japan in April. In June and July are 28 concerts in North America tour. “The neverending tour” runs its course. Meanwhile, Dylan arrived with two plates in a new phase of their musical development, last year’s “Shadows in the Night” and “Fallen Angels,” which came four days ago.

MEN IN MAY HAVE he obviously free. We expect that he celebrates the day with family, in a place far removed from all the publicity. Musicians from The Woodstock Family with guests have announced that they will hold Dylan concert tonight. The same happens when Norwegian dylanologisk company turns to the Park Theatre in Oslo with Elliott Murphy, Monica Heldal, Trond Ingebretsen, several cover bands, plus Tom Roger Aadland.

Haugesund he has previously recorded “Blood on the Tracks” in New Norwegian translation. In September he comes with a plate where he treated the entire “Blonde On Blonde” in the same way. Johan ÅRSTEIN and Ida Løvheim has a project called “Bob Dylan on the northern Norwegian”, which they have brought to the people in the “barracks and boathouse, on ferries, in cafes, in the old movie theaters in cramped basements and tighter radio studio, as well as in a and other cultural centers. ” On the home page, they wander entwined a la Dylan and Suze Rotolo on the cover of “The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan” (1963).

THE LAST THREE years Bob Dylan released three full, new chapters of his “Bootleg Series”, from the period mid-1960s to around 1971. In the winter came a live recording with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from Sydney, Australia, from a tour in 1986.

Meanwhile, the man entered a new and for many listeners surprising trend. Last year came the album “Shadows In The Night”, where the singer follows up his lifelong fascination with classic American crooner style, most conspicuously on “Nashville Skyline” (1969). Many noted that Dylan delivered a song to “The Sopranos,” Dean Martin’s hit “Return To Me”. The style is a good distance away folksong pioneer Pete Seeger, a veteran who meant a lot to Dylan early in his career.

LAST FRIDAY CAME even such an album, “Fallen Angels.” Dylan calls Sinatra a musical role model, “No one is near him. Not I, and nobody else either. ” About repertoire he says: “When you start to sing these songs, you need Frank in mind. For he is the mountain itself. It is the mountain you have to climb, even if you only get a piece up. ” Sinatra was a man who found himself “on the inside of a song on a kind of conversation like manner. Frank sang to you – not for you. ”

Up to six songs from both albums are on Dylan’s latest concerts. The genre has an obvious connection with the American noir culture, as Dylan toucher on “Empire Burlesque” (1985). A song from there, “When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky”, has been frequently played at concerts. The picture on the back of “Shadows in the Night” could have been taken from a B movie from the 1940s, and the cover of “Fallen Angels” shows a hidden poker hand.

GISLE SELNES HAVE has written the book “The great song.” Where he gives a comprehensive literary and musical analysis of Dylan’s songs. Should Dylan get the Nobel Prize? Selnes writes: “Dylan does not necessarily have the Nobel Prize, he has awards and honors enough as it is. But we should not ignore the fact that the Nobel Prize need Dylan. ”

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