Comments for t h a t m e r c u r y s o u n d http://thatmercurysound.com i know it's only rock & roll but i like it... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on chimes of freedom? not quite. by Adam the Alien http://thatmercurysound.com/2012/01/27/chimes-of-freedom-not-quite/#comment-210 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:12:04 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=1152#comment-210 I hadn’t heard about this album at all. I feel like I have to give it a listen solely because of the eclectic mixture of musicians doing Dylan covers. I’m still, after reading this, having incredible difficulty processing the idea that Miley Cyrus and Joan Baez are on the same album. I don’t think I could have imagined Baez and Maroon 5 on the same album, but Baez and Cyrus popping up on the same track list feels a bit surreal.

]]> Comment on unsung siren: terry reid by thatmercurysound http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/11/15/unsung-siren-terry-reid/#comment-206 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:54:38 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=1087#comment-206 Good catch! Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it :)

]]> Comment on unsung siren: terry reid by scaly dragon http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/11/15/unsung-siren-terry-reid/#comment-205 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:32:48 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=1087#comment-205 it’s jaywalkers not jayhawks… good post here, thanks… yes, superlungs smokes like a chimney, always did and probably always will… cheers!

]]> Comment on new album from the milk carton kids by estrenos cine http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/07/26/prologue-the-milk-carton-kids/#comment-173 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:57:48 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=917#comment-173 That was some revelatory piece of writing!

]]> Comment on ‘sing a song i learned out on the road’: the story of the milk carton kids by Julie http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/10/11/sing-a-song-i-learned-out-on-the-road/#comment-154 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:05:59 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=1019#comment-154 This was beautifully written and such a great portrait of these guys, Allie. Loved every word. You rock.

]]> Comment on hibbing pilgrimage by John Pilecki http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/09/07/hibbing-pilgrimage/#comment-139 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:51:17 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=953#comment-139 BTW – Be sure to check out the photo chronicle that Laurie Giardino made of her journey to Hibbing :

http://www.lauriegiardino.com/Hibbing.htm

Some great pics of 1987 Hibbing you would appreciate, and she has a great take on talking to girls at Hibbing High who recount their mothers’ memories of Bob – basically, they all claimed to have been Echo Helstrom!

]]> Comment on hibbing pilgrimage by John Pilecki http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/09/07/hibbing-pilgrimage/#comment-138 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:46:01 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=953#comment-138 Linda,

Thank you for fleshing out the magic that Dylan Days has obviously become. Continue the good work. I do hope to get out there again, at least by 2015, which would be 40 years after my initial visiit (egads!)

John

]]> Comment on album obsession: sea bell by the mom http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/09/12/album-obsession-sea-bell/#comment-137 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:15:26 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=991#comment-137 Bravo!

]]> Comment on hibbing pilgrimage by Linda Whiteside http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/09/07/hibbing-pilgrimage/#comment-136 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:37:31 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=953#comment-136 John,
I think the town’s attitude is changing a lot towards Bob, but then, I’m not a native and don’t have a good grasp on the feeling in general. There were some humorous (well, northern small town humor) videos published by the tourism office in conjunction with Dylan Days last year asking “Come home Bob” I though local writer Aaron Brown was wryly hilarious.
Even though I live here now, I try to take the Dylan bus tour every year if i can and always enjoy it. I like seeing Echo Helstrom’s childhood home and the swing Bob used to sit in when he would visit her. I really like LeRoy Hoikkala, (who was the drummer in one of Bob’s early bands and who is one of my favorite Finns) and love hearing his stories and his answers to questions. I love going into the high school and walking up on the stage where Bob played piano like Little Richard. I like having a snack on the lawn of the house he grew up in and listening to other people on the tour talk about where they are from and why they are there e.g. Paris, Liverpool, Australia, California, Alaska etc and it’s suprising how many are writing theses, doing research, or teaching classes on Dylan. Of course, some are young musicians there for the songwriter contest and many are just plain old fans like me. In addition to the bus tour, I like the Dylan themed artwork, the short story and poetry contest winners reading their entries, the Dylan related films screened (often is it a film debut), but most of all I enjoy the music. The music is such a treat and like I said, the joy in the air by the end of the night is awesome.
I hope you can make it back to Hibbing for Bob’s birthday celebration soon.

]]> Comment on hibbing pilgrimage by John Pilecki http://thatmercurysound.com/2011/09/07/hibbing-pilgrimage/#comment-134 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:45:03 +0000 http://thatmercurysound.com/?p=953#comment-134 meant ” … how the town HAS changed …. “

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