“Real Life Rock Top Ten” is a monthly column by cultural critic and Rs contributing editor Greil Marcus.
1. Overheard at “The World of Bob Dylan” symposium, University of Tulsa (May 30-June 2): “I’m 71 years old. When will excruciatingly boring fat men cease trying to hit on me?”
2 Erin Durant, Islands (Keeled Scales). I’ve played this album a dozen times over the last two months. Sometimes Durant’s piano seems to be drifting in from a neighbor’s window; then it might all but fade out as she plays.
1. Overheard at “The World of Bob Dylan” symposium, University of Tulsa (May 30-June 2): “I’m 71 years old. When will excruciatingly boring fat men cease trying to hit on me?”
2 Erin Durant, Islands (Keeled Scales). I’ve played this album a dozen times over the last two months. Sometimes Durant’s piano seems to be drifting in from a neighbor’s window; then it might all but fade out as she plays.
- 6/24/2019
- by Greil Marcus
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix premiered the trailer for ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, an original documentary film on the life and death of legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson.
As the trailer details, Johnson was a little-known musician and juke joint performer in Mississippi during the early 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing for a year and a half and returning with a profound set of guitar-picking skills. (“He’s doing things with the guitar that even his mentors can’t do.”) Legend has it that Johnson became a virtuoso through sinister means: as the myth goes,...
As the trailer details, Johnson was a little-known musician and juke joint performer in Mississippi during the early 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing for a year and a half and returning with a profound set of guitar-picking skills. (“He’s doing things with the guitar that even his mentors can’t do.”) Legend has it that Johnson became a virtuoso through sinister means: as the myth goes,...
- 4/18/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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