Bøker av Jochen Markhorst

"I can change during the course of a day," says Billy The Kid, the Dylan character played by Richard Gere in the wonderful, facinating biopic I'm Not There (2007). "I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep, I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am, most of the time. It's like you got yesterday, today, and tomorrow, all in the same room." 17 April 2020, three weeks after the mind-boggling "Murder Most Foul", Dylan releases "I Contain Multitudes". It is five weeks before his 79th birthday, we are in the midst of a global pandemic, it has been eight years since Tempest, the last LP with Dylan originals, was released. And now we dare say: another new Dylan album is finally coming out, and it promises to be Dylan's best of the 21st century, the best since Time Out Of Mind (1997). The expectation comes true. Rough And Rowdy Ways is acclaimed worldwide, effortlessly reaches the top of the charts, and is now indeed considered one of Dylan's Very Great Albums. And one of the flag-bearers of that magnificent album is the kaleidoscopic opening song, "I Contain Multitudes. Today and tomorrow and yesterday too, Dylan sings, our tour guide on the then following Long Strange Trip of the Naked Ape.

"Ich kaufe immer wieder dieselbe Platte, immer und immer wieder: Ich habe so viele Versionen von Nashville Skyline gekauft - ich habe Dylan in... was auch immer das ist, in dem ich ihn haben muss." (Nick Cave, 1995) In Nashville Skyline. Bob Dylans andere Art von Musik taucht Dylan-Autor Jochen Markhorst tief in Dylans überraschende Country-LP von 1969 ein und führt den Leser durch die Schönheit und den Hintergrund der Albumtracks, die wunderbaren Outtakes, die Vorbereitungen zu den Aufnahmesessions und den Nachhall des Albums.

"Ik blijf telkens maar weer een en hetzelfde album kopen; ik heb zó ontzettend veel versies van Nashville Skyline - ik heb van Dylan zo langzamerhand wel ... weet ik veel, zoveel als nodig is."(Nick Cave, 1995) In Nashville Skyline. Bob Dylans andere soort muziek duikt Dylanauteur Jochen Markhorst diep in Dylans verrassende countryplaat uit 1969, neemt de lezer mee langs de schoonheid en de achtergrond van de albumtracks, de wonderlijke outtakes, de aanloop naar de opnamesessies en de nagalm ervan.