Sunday, June 3, 2012

BobD rightfully honored -- how does it feeeeeel?

Malcolm Jones/The Daily Beast captures Bob Dylan receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Jones' key paragraph: "You don’t have to like or admire Dylan to admit that he was a game changer. He made folk music hip. He made rock lyrics literate or, put another way, he made his audience pay attention to lyrics because he made them mean something. He blew a hole in the notion that radio hits have to clock in at less than three minutes. He proved that you can stand on a stage with just a guitar and not much of a voice and hold people’s attention for, oh, about five decades."

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