Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Remind me when there is world enough and time to refresh your non nostalgic memory of what we were like. B. D. Colen wrote: >You can really hear that in the duets with Joan Baez from 63-65. Of course >you can't speak of the two voices in the same breath, but what strikes me is >that he is most definitely in tune with her - even if in tune in another >vocal universe. > >BTW - Totally and completely off-topic, with no Leica, photo, image, or art >rationalization, but I am reminded of it by typing 63-65 - I cannot highly >enough recommend the Taylor Branch recently completed trilogy - America in >the King Years...Parting The Waters - 1956-63; Pillar of Fire - 1963-65; and >the recently release At Canaan's Edge - 1965-68. Particularly for any of you >younger LUGers who want a sense of what this country was like a very short >time ago, and who wonder why race seems to be such a big deal, these three >volumes are not to be missed. For that matter, they are a must read for >anyone interest in mid-20th century America, or anyone who just appreciates >spectacularly well written non-fiction. > >End of commercial. > >I have never met Taylor Branch, was never published by his publisher, have >no connection to his publisher, and...oh, wait, his wife was the girl friend >of my college best friend. ;-) > > > > >On 5/19/06 3:27 PM, "Steve Unsworth" <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote: > > > >>Listen to anything before his voice got shot and he's bang on the note. Not >>a 'pretty' voice perhaps, but certainly not out of tune. >> >>Steve >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org >>[mailto:lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >>B. >>D. Colen >>Sent: 18 May 2006 12:10 >>To: Leica Users Group >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Boston T and Bob Dylan >> >>...I and many others consider him one of the handful >>of truly great 20th century poets, with a perfectly pleasant voice. >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >