Hearing Things Like 'wake Up' By Lora

What Always Attracted Me To [bob] Dylan, And What Has Sustained Me As A Dylan Listener, Or Has Always Continued To Surprise Me, Is His Voice, The Way He Sings, The Way He Wraps His Voice Around Certain Words, The Way He Backs Off From Melodic Moments, The Way He Moves Forward To Grab Something In A Song That, Were Anybody Else Performing It, They Would Have No Idea It Was Even There.

I Was The First Records Editor At Rolling Stone, And There Were No Rules. There Was Nothing To Fall Back On As To How Do You Write About This Kind Of Music, So People Were Trying Absolutely Everything With A Great Sense Of Freedom And Experimentation And Success And Failure, And A Feeling Of, “my God, People Are Actually Paying Attention To This. Let’s Pretend They Aren’t Because We Don’t Want To Be Intimidated By What Somebody Might Think Of What We’re Saying.

I Never Could Understand - It Was Impossible For Me To Get My Head Around - What The Furor Was, What The Sense Of Betrayal And Anger And Rage Was About Bob Dylan's Beginning To Perform With A Band, To Play Rock-and-roll, To Get On The Radio.

Along With A Lot Of Other Things, Becoming A Bob Dylan Fan Made Me A Writer. I Was Never Interested In Figuring Out What The Songs Meant. I Was Interested In Figuring Out My Response To Them, And Other People's Responses. I Wanted To Get Closer To The Music Than I Could By Listening To It - I Wanted To Get Inside Of It, Behind It, And Writing About It Through It, Inside Of It, Behind It, Was My Way Of Doing That.

If Bob Dylan Really Is An Historian In And Of Himself In His Work, In His Performances, He Is Also An Historian With A Unique Sense Of Humor. There's Always Been A Bit Of A Stand-up Comic In Him.