Bob Dylan installs artwork in French vineyard

Bob Dylan's first permanent artwork has been installed on the grounds of a wine estate in southern France. 

"Rail Car" is a large wagon with walls made from iron wheels, cycle parts, wrenches and other tools, now sitting among the vines of the swanky Chateau La Coste in Provence. 

It is part of the chateau's renowned "Art and Architecture" walking tour that also includes sculptures and installations by the likes of Tracey Emin, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers -- and another musician, Michael Stipe of REM. 

Dylan is also showing 24 paintings under the heading "Drawn Blank" at the chateau's art centre alongside works by Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall that are said to have been an inspiration. 

The 80-year-old has sold more than 125 million albums over his six-decade career and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. 

He has published multiple books of his drawings and paintings, and exhibited his work at several major galleries around the world. 

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Memorabilia from Prince, Bob Dylan, more go to auction

NEW YORK  — Music fans looking for a piece of history are going to get a chance to own guitars, outfits and other memorabilia from the likes of Prince, Bob Dylan, George Harrison and others.

Julien’s Auctions is hosting two days of auctions focused on musical artists at the Hard Rock Cafe New York and online.

A public preview of the items opened on Monday. The auction days are Friday and Saturday.


The first auction day is dedicated to Prince, the musical legend who died in April 2016. The items include a guitar the artist had commissioned, as well as a number of outfits he wore at different performances, and handwritten lyrics.

The second day’s items include guitars played by Bob Dylan and George Harrison, as well as costumes and jewelry. MKH

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Bob Dylan's New Album, 'Tempest,' Hits Stores on September 11th

After months of rumors, Columbia Records has announced that Bob Dylan's new studio album will be released on September 11th, 2012. The set, called Tempest, was produced by Dylan himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost. A press release has very little information, but it does say the disc contains 10 original songs. It's unclear what the title of the disc refers to, but it is worth nothing that The Tempest is the title of Shakespeare's final play.

News of Dylan's new disc first hit back in March when Los Lobos guitarist David Hidalgo (who played on Dylan's 2009 disc Together Through Life) told the Aspen Times he had been recording with Dylan at Jackson Browne's studio in California. "It was a great experience," Hidalgo said. "And different. Each one has been different, all completely different approaches. It's an amazing thing, how he keeps creativity. I don't see how he does it."

Dylan wraps up his European summer tour on July 22nd and heads to North America for a month of dates beginning August 10th in Lloydminster, Alberta. That leg will finish in Hershey, Pennsylvania on September 9th (two days before Tempest hits stores), but there are rumors he will launch another tour in November with special guest Mark Knopfler.

source: rollingstone.com

Dylan, Van Morrison headline Montreux jazz fest

CAUX, Switzerland - Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Anita Baker return to the Montreux Jazz Festival for the 46th edition that founder "Funky" Claude Nobs hopes will go on into the early hours with improvised jam sessions.

New talents Lana Del Rey and Ed Sheeran, as well as veterans Jane Birkin, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Tony Bennett are also booked at one of Europe's most prestigious music festivals that runs from June 29-July 14 along the shores of Lake Geneva.

Dylan performs on July 8 for the first time here since 1998, with "Chicago Blues" opening for the American legend, now 71.

"I heard Bob (Dylan) play in Geneva a few months ago and brought him some DVDs of Montreux. He was the one who said he wanted to come back to Montreux," Nobs told Reuters in his chalet in the village of Caux just above Montreux.

"He never appears with someone before him or after him but this time he is, it will be something totally different."

Van Morrison and Buddy Guy appear the night before, and Nobs hopes that the Northern Irish singer who is staying on a day longer will join Dylan in some poetic lyrics at the Stravinski Auditorium.

Other line-up highlights include Detroit-based Anita Baker and a 1970s disco evening billed as "Freak Out" featuring Nile Rodgers & Chic, Mark Ronson and Grace Jones.

"Anita Baker is in great form, she has the greatest jazz voice in the world at the moment," Nobs said, adding that he saw her perform in New York two months ago.

"House" television series actor Hugh Laurie, a blues singer whose debut album "Let Them Talk" soared on the charts, performs with Dr. John and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue on July 9.

"All three groups will be on the stage of Miles Davis Hall, it's their only concert in Europe," Nobs said.

Katie Melua, Jethro Tull, Alanis Morissette, American R&B stars Erykah Badu and D'Angelo, Brazil's Gilberto Gil, Jessie J, and Janelle Monae are also booked. Amy MacDonald kicks it off on June 29, with 20-year-old local Swiss Bastian Baker opening.

DIGITAL ARCHIVES

The festival's archives of 5,000 hours of music contained on 10,000 recording tapes are being digitalised to preserve 45 years of history, according to Nobs, dubbed "Funky Claude" by Deep Purple in their 1970's hit "Smoke on the Water" about a fire raging in the posh Swiss lakeside resort.

"We are in discussions with UNESCO on the archives. Personally, I'm convinced it will happen," he told reporters.

"They will be the first music archives in the world to become the cultural patrimony of UNESCO," Nobs said, adding that he expected a decision in June.

The 76-year-old Swiss, who created the festival in 1967 while working at the tourism office, brought giants from Miles Davis, Ray Charles and B.B. King to Prince to Montreux's stage.

He often had to coax them along or meet their odd whims.

"I got Miles a Ferrari for him to drive along the lake, Nina Simone wanted a diamond watch, and we found the mineral water that Prince likes in Geneva. We always find a way," he said.

Thierry Amsallem, Nobs' partner for more than 20 years, is project manager for the high-resolution digital archive which has technical help from the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and funding from Swiss watchmaker Audemar Piguet.

"It is a unique collection in the world, live concerts at the same venue by the same organization," he told Reuters, adding that it included recordings by 4,000 groups.

"We started three years ago and have done 35 percent. But we've done the most difficult parts, the old reels which demand more care - Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie," he said. "It should take two more years."

Their two chalets overlooking Lake Geneva are full of vintage Wurlitzer jukeboxes, flat screens, sophisticated sound equipment and mementoes including a print signed by Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones and a larger-than-life bust of Franklin.

Tickets for the Van Morrison and Dylan concerts are the festival's priciest, ranging from 108 to 350 Swiss francs ($380).

What about the steep prices in an age of free digital music?

"We're offering Bob Dylan in a hall for 2,500 people with excellent sound and visual conditions. It's something unique compared to huge indoor halls or stadiums," Nobs said.

"The most expensive tickets always go first." - Reuters

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Professor Springsteen's rock 'n' roll history lesson at SXSW

Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Anyone expecting outspoken rocker Bruce Springsteen to spend his keynote address here at the South by Southwest music conference talking about his new No. 1 album or the politically divided state of the country may have gotten a surprise.

Instead, Springsteen delivered a rousing, witty and personal history of his varied music influences -- from Elvis Presley to Bob Dylan to James Brown to Hank Williams -- punctuating his points by playing snippets of songs on a guitar. He also offered a little veteran advice for the thousands of young, unknown musicians who have descended upon Austin in the hopes of making it big.

"Stay hard. Stay hungry. Stay alive," he said in his familiar rasp. "And when you walk onstage tonight to bring the noise, treat it like it's all you have."

Springsteen is at SXSW to help launch "Wrecking Ball," his 17th studio album, which voices his frustrations over what he sees as a lack of accountability by government and financial leaders for the country's economic woes. Several members of his E Street Band were in the audience, and he and the band were scheduled to perform at a 2,000-seat theater Thursday night in Austin before kicking off a North American arena tour Sunday in Atlanta.

Thursday afternoon's event placed the current Rolling Stone cover boy in an unusual setting: Behind a podium in a packed convention hall -- and in the middle of the day, no less. Looking a little bleary-eyed, Springsteen took the stage 30 minutes late, carrying his notes on sheafs of paper, and immediately complained about the time.


"How important can this speech be if we're giving it at noon?" he asked. "Every decent musician in town is asleep. Or they will be when I'm done with this thing."

Springsteen began his talk by marveling at the thousands of bands, in almost every musical genre, who are playing Austin this week and how that would have been inconceivable to him as a young music fan. He then pointed out how fractured the music landscape has become and how hard it is for consumers with divergent tastes to gain critical consensus around an artist -- including himself.

In what may have been an allusion to today's manufactured pop stars, he argued that what matters most in music is "purity of human expression," not looks or labels or digital format.

"We live in a post-authentic world. Today authenticity is a house of mirrors," he said in his hourlong talk. "It's about what you're bringing [onstage] when the lights go down."

Springsteen then began recounting his personal journey through music, beginning when he first saw Presley on "The Ed Sullivan Show" at age 6. He managed to get his hands on a rented guitar, but his hands were too small to play it, so he just struck rock poses in front of the mirror. "I still do that," he said with a chuckle.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/15/showbiz/springsteen-keynote-sxsw/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

How To Learn The Easiest Song To Play On Guitar

For anyone who is just starting understanding to play guitar you can have to have of the easiest songs to get you going. Nicely then it is actually time to obtain your six string tuned and prepared, for the reason that you can now get many of the easiest guitar songs to learn below.

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Should you be searching for the easiest song to play on guitar, then it can be improbable which you will find one single song on any web page. The song which you uncover for being the easiest 1 depends on knowing the song and when you know any of the courts.

For a new guitarists it is vital to acquaint your self with a few of the easiest songs to play on guitar. In the event you are sitting with your new guitar and simply cannot wait to start out, do not delay - pick a song from underneath. When you are just beginning out, the ideal method to boost your confidence is to learn some new songs. Within the songs listed below pick one of the easiest guitar song to learn in relation to your individual play type.

One of the easiest song to play on guitar will be the 90s hit track Breakfast at Tiffany's. This could be the easiest song to play on guitar immediately after Smoke On The Water and Ode To Joy. The song wising is an additional wonderful song to begin out with, although the courts is applying its A D E D, this makes it really is an easy 1 for a beginner. The classic song Country Road is a superb song to begin out with should you like country, created by John Denver and is also pretty easy. Hello could songs by John Denver to check out the classics Annie's song and also the song Old Guitar. A further song, which would be easy to learn, particularly following you get accustomed to your guitar is "Knocking on heaven's door" by Bob Dylan. New guitar students are often given the chord progressions to " A Horse with No Name " since a lot of look at it to be the number one easiest song to play on guitar. "A Horse with no name" only uses 3 courts, so it should be fairly easy for you to get started with. You'll want to understand the courts G major, D major together with A minor seventh to play it. However another perhaps even less difficult song you can learn is, Fallin' by Alicia Keys. This song just has 2 chords: E minor and B minor.

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Rolling Stone Celebrates Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday

Today, March 24, 2011 is Bob Dylan's 70th birthday. Bob Dylan is one of the most creative and inspired musicians in the World.

Bob Dylan has remained, along with James Brown, the most influential American musician rock & roll has ever produced. In a career that lasted for more than five decades, Dylan has won nine Grammy awards, been initiated in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won an Academy Award for song on the soundtrack of the film Wonder Boys.


Rolling Stone Magazine with Bob Dylan on the cover and published a list of their top 70 Bob Dylan songs from his 50-year recording carreer as well as Bono Bob Weir and Lucinda Williams, Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz to tell and explain their favorite Dylan songs, plus a challenging Dylan trivia quiz.


Bob Dylan is a great artist, an icon above all icons and truly a LEGEND!