MUS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: The Turtles, Electric Blues, John P. Hammond
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Bringing it all back home: after meeting the beatles, dylan went electric on one side of his 5th album, lyrics of mr. Tambourine man and subterranean homesick blues reveal a new development in dylan"s work: surrealism: possibly the result of experimentation with lsd, but also the in uence of jack kerouac. Blonde on blonde: may 1966, continues in much the same vein as highway 61 revisited, lots of contrasts, visions of johanna is a soft rock ballad, rainy day women no. 12 & 35 (everybody must get stoned) is a raucous jumble of sounds leading to the anthemic phrase everyone must get stoned : obviously 5 believers is a gritty mix of electric blues and r&b. Dylan & the band: the band started as a back-up group called the hawks, working with rockabilly singer ronnie hawkins in the late 1950s, met dylan through folk blues guitarist john hammond jr.
