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    That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde
    That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde
    That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde
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    That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde

    By Daryl Sanders

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    That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylan's magnum opus, Blonde on Blonde, not only providing the most extensive account of the sessions that produced the trailblazing album, but also setting the record straight on much of the misinformation that has surrounded the story of how the masterpiece came to be made. Including many new details and eyewitness accounts never before published, as well as keen insight into the Nashville cats who helped Dylan reach rare artistic heights, it explores the lasting impact of rock's first double album. Based on exhaustive research and in-depth interviews with the producer, the session musicians, studio personnel, management personnel, and others, Daryl Sanders chronicles the road that took Dylan from New York to Nashville in search of "that thin, wild mercury sound." As Dylan told Playboy in 1978, the closest he ever came to capturing that sound was during the Blonde on Blonde sessions, where the voice of a generation was backed by musicians of the highest order.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781613735503

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      Takes you from the roots of Blonde On Blonde in the Highway 61 sessions up thru the thing itself and then the aftermath in reception and lasting influence. Sanders is very good at sketching just the right amount of the background of the various players, producers and others concerned and puts together a fascinating narrative of the sessions. Where he falls down is as a literary critic. His analysis of the sources of Dylan's lyrics and their evolutions is sometimes laughable and never profound. He thinks visions of Johanna is saturated with T. S. Eliot because Eliot uses night and darkness and the word muttering, and so does Dylan. Or that the line 'examines the nightingale's code' from the embryonic version of Visions shows the influence of John Keats' odes because, as Fluellen might say, 'There is nightingales in both'. So one star off for that. Still I'm glad I read it and would recommend it.

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