First the good news: Mr. Tambourine Man taking drugs again! The bad: It's the wrong "Or so the comments should have sounded when the first rumors circulated on the Internet that Bob Dylan (Yes, the Bob Dylan!) Would publish a plate with Christmas have Or so!. I also thought when I read it now, it is so because: Christmas In The Heart "- outside a gruesome Trashy Cover with snowy village landscape, sleigh, Kutscher and muffbewehrter Lady.. Inside a Pin-up Girl with Santa hat, coat and fur-trimmed rotweißem Stiefelchen which stretches the ample breasts towards the viewer. Columbia Christmas Recording "I read on the shekel, held in festive red and then Here Comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus.?" Groans the old cannibal chief, and an even lovelier angelic choir whispers: Right down Santa Claus Lane "Yes, Uncle Bob. taking drugs again - but this time it is to make the right long story short.. This plate is a masterpiece Had Barbara Streisand recorded the same songs in the same arrangement that the ultimate mood killer would have been under the Christmas tree dusty mainstream until you drop.. But Uncle Bob is not Barbara Streisand (which, if you do not know this, is also a member of the Jewish community and therefore really should not sing Christmas carols.) Dylan -. and it can be no doubt - who loves this kind of music who. That may not believe the times should listen at about a hundred episodes of his Theme Time Radio Hour ". He does what you would expect of a genius: he does the unexpected. The sophisticated, yes, almost saccharine arrangements he countered with his gravedigger voice and make it in such a way to deliver a tribute and at the same time an ironic and highly entertaining deconstruction of genudelten to death standards. To switch moments of quiet contemplation (Hark The Herald Angels Sing, "The Christmas Blues" The Christmas Song ") seamlessly with phases winking back shrewdness (Here Comes Santa Claus" Christmas Island "). Overall, it is a highly homogeneous work, . Nevertheless, I take the liberty to name two personal favorites: one is the wonderfully wacky polka version of Must Be Santa "- undoubtedly the fastest number that Dylan has ever delivered. (So fast that David Hidalgo no longer comes at a point with the accordion behind! A small, precious moment of!) Aka Dylan was not corrected course from producer Jack Frost (!) And secondly the ultimate Judy Garland classic Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas ", the Dylan with so much feeling and empathy sings that it drives a tear in his eyes. Of course, this is just speculation, but I think the champion has quite low before this artist bows here, the as he came from Minnesota, and unfortunately much broke too early from the consequences of their fame.
Bob Dyan is 68 years old. He has sold millions of records, acquired wealth and fame, affected the lives of countless people in one way or another way. He has to prove anything to anyone. He must take no account of Wen-so-ever. He does what he wants to do - and his status as a living icon gives him every right. If he should decide soon, Bach's Goldberg Variations to blow on the crest, so what? Size and talent can not be bought - you have to earn it. Merry Xmas, Uncle Bob!
