I said, “there’s no music in Literature.” Afterwards I regretted the statement, because there is music in literature. It’s just that it is the music of silence, that’s all… Continue reading CJ Stone’s columns for Mixmag Magazine 1996-1998
Joan Baez does a pretty good impression of Bob Dylan. There’s a bit in No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese’s essential film about Dylan’s early years: Baez is sitting in her kitchen nursing a mug of coffee. She’s just been talking … Continue reading Farewell Angelina by Bob Dylan
The other extraordinary news of 2016 was Bob Dylan winning the Nobel prize for literature. There were audible gasps from the audience when it was announced. Leonard Cohen said it was “like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being … Continue reading Dylan’s voice of a generation turned dismissive and lazy
