Friday, December 10, 2004
Bob Dylan on Guthrie
"I went through it (Guthrie's autobiography Bound for Glory) from cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio. Guthrie writes like the whirlwind and you get tripped out on the sound of the words alone.
"Pick up the book anywhere, turn to any page and he hits the ground running . . . Guthrie's got a fierce poetic soul - the poet of hard crust sod and gumbo mud. Guthrie divides the world between those who work and those who don't and is interested in the liberation of the human race and wants to create a world worth living in. Bound for Glory is a hell of a book. It's huge. Almost too big."
(from "Like a Rolling Tome". Don't be put off reading this by the hokey title.)
¶ 12/10/2004 07:03:00 AM
"I went through it (Guthrie's autobiography Bound for Glory) from cover to cover like a hurricane, totally focused on every word, and the book sang out to me like the radio. Guthrie writes like the whirlwind and you get tripped out on the sound of the words alone.
"Pick up the book anywhere, turn to any page and he hits the ground running . . . Guthrie's got a fierce poetic soul - the poet of hard crust sod and gumbo mud. Guthrie divides the world between those who work and those who don't and is interested in the liberation of the human race and wants to create a world worth living in. Bound for Glory is a hell of a book. It's huge. Almost too big."
(from "Like a Rolling Tome". Don't be put off reading this by the hokey title.)
¶ 12/10/2004 07:03:00 AM
