To the public, Bob Dylan is an enigma, but the musicians who know him well say he has a solid sense of humor. Dylan takes his music seriously, but he also brings humor on stage and into the recording studio. He also likes to mess with the artists working with him. Here are three artists Dylan has purposely tried to throw off while playing together and their reactions.
Bob Dylan | Evening Standard/Getty Images Bucky Baxter: Bob Dylan embarrassed 1 of his backing musicians
Guitarist Bucky Baxter joined Dylan on tour in the 1990s. Just before playing a song, Dylan abruptly told Baxter to switch instruments.
“One night around that time, at Hammersmith, he was about to go into [his 1963 classic] ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,’” Baxter told GQ. “He said, ‘Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.’ I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys.
Bob Dylan | Evening Standard/Getty Images Bucky Baxter: Bob Dylan embarrassed 1 of his backing musicians
Guitarist Bucky Baxter joined Dylan on tour in the 1990s. Just before playing a song, Dylan abruptly told Baxter to switch instruments.
“One night around that time, at Hammersmith, he was about to go into [his 1963 classic] ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,’” Baxter told GQ. “He said, ‘Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.’ I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys.
- 3/2/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind hit shelves on Sept. 30, 1997, it was hailed by fans and critics as his best work in decades. The Daniel Lanois-produced LP won a Grammy for Album of the Year, kickstarted an incredible period of renewed vitality for Dylan, and forever silenced any doubters who felt he’d never recapture the magic of his early years. Just about the only person unhappy with the album was Bob Dylan himself.
“I felt extremely frustrated, because I couldn’t get any of the up-tempo songs that I wanted,...
“I felt extremely frustrated, because I couldn’t get any of the up-tempo songs that I wanted,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Tosha Hill, “Forty Miles”
Alabama singer-songwriter Tosha Hill’s “Forty Miles” opens on a quintessentially bleak scene. “Forty miles west of Little Rock/Not a penny to my name,” she sings, her powerful voice carrying...
Tosha Hill, “Forty Miles”
Alabama singer-songwriter Tosha Hill’s “Forty Miles” opens on a quintessentially bleak scene. “Forty miles west of Little Rock/Not a penny to my name,” she sings, her powerful voice carrying...
- 7/5/2021
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. “The whole year was fascinating in terms of the shifts and changes that he went through.”
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bucky Baxter — an ace pedal steel guitarist who played in Bob Dylan’s band for much of the Nineties on Dylan’s Never Ending Tour — died Monday in Sanibel Island, Florida. He was 65. Baxter’s son, singer-songwriter Rayland Baxter, confirmed his father’s death via Instagram on Tuesday.
Born William Baxter in Melbourne, Florida, in 1955, Baxter began studying pedal steel guitar in the Seventies. In the Eighties, he met the country songwriter Steve Earle and played on Earle’s influential 1986 debut, Guitar Town, along with other classic Earle LPs like...
Born William Baxter in Melbourne, Florida, in 1955, Baxter began studying pedal steel guitar in the Seventies. In the Eighties, he met the country songwriter Steve Earle and played on Earle’s influential 1986 debut, Guitar Town, along with other classic Earle LPs like...
- 5/26/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Rayland Baxter never met Mac Miller, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t inspired by the late rapper’s body of music. Now Baxter is paying tribute to Miller with an Ep of covers called good mmornin, which he’s previewing with the release of two tracks, “Objects in the Mirror” and “2009.”
Miller died from an accidental overdose in September 2018, after struggling for years with substance abuse — troubles he often chronicled in his work. Baxter, who released his latest LP Wide Awake two months before Miller’s death, leans into the jazzy,...
Miller died from an accidental overdose in September 2018, after struggling for years with substance abuse — troubles he often chronicled in his work. Baxter, who released his latest LP Wide Awake two months before Miller’s death, leans into the jazzy,...
- 6/27/2019
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Over the course of three albums, Rayland Baxter has sketched his own picture of lush Americana and oddball folk, singing songs about fishhooks and females along the way. With his latest release, Wide Awake, he presents his own version of classic pop-rock. It’s a sound that’s rich in tone, texture and the unique songwriting of a Nashville native who grew up watching his father, pedal steel legend Bucky Baxter, playing with some of the late 20th century’s most iconic frontmen.
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Rayland Baxter was ready to get away from the world in the autumn of 2016. In this, the Nashville singer-songwriter was hardly unique, but in the three months that he spent living in an old rubber factory in rural Kentucky, with little more than a mattress, a guitar, and a Wurlitzer, Baxter did something with his political angst: he wrote an album.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
- 7/18/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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