Happy 80th birthday to Bob Dylan, rock’s most prescient, timeless voice

 

 

 

"On Monday, Dylan turns 80. The music he now makes – most recently heard on last year’s very good album, Rough and Rowdy Ways – has a rather different relationship to home, history and­­ the load we amass as we live. Unlike so many musicians, he has not tried to deny his advancing years, but fully embraced them – something clear in both his words, and the growly, lived-in voice in which he sings them. Dylan’s songs now remind us that the past is inescapable, and age and experience ought to be treated with the utmost respect. And in doing so, they capture an understanding that surely settles on us as we get older: that few things are in any way new, and if we want to even begin to understand what’s going on, we should start by looking back"

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Happy 80th birthday to Bob Dylan, rock’s most prescient, timeless voice | John Harris | The Guardian: