Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...– Bob Dylan, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Robin Hood

Ridley Scott’s revisionist rendering of the Robin Hood tale is full of well-staged battle sequences and is something of an origins story.

"...Robin (Crowe) has been listening to a lot of Bob Dylan lyrics, especially that line about how in order..."

May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"..."Mendocino" brought with it not only a head-bobbing beat set to Meyers' Vox, but its rootsy aura..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...to his arched eyebrows and knowing look. Eldest son Bob favors his mother in a family portrait circa 1954,..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Mayoral candidates sound off on the future of Austin music, Scott H. Biram gets back on his feet, and unveiling the lineups for the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Pachanga Latino Music Festival

"...• Take me out to the ball game: Bob Dylan will be batting third behind Willie Nelson and..."

May 1, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Page Two: A Pleasant Summer Afternoon Outing

With an all-too-familiar rant recalled and reoffered

"..."To live outside the law you must be honest," Bob Dylan wrote. To be a citizen in a constitutional..."

April 10, 2009 Column by Louis Black

A Geezerville Mixtape

More of the best of 2008

"...1) Bob Dylan, "Red River Shore", Tell Tale Signs (Columbia)..."

Jan. 14, 2009 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Page Two: Dead Dinosaurs

The only legitimate shot at energy independence is to develop alternative power sources

"...– Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue"..."

July 4, 2008 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Report

How to Get Young People Involved in Politics; and Monsanto Seeks to Ban the Truth

"...Way back in the ancient history of the 1960s, Bob Dylan sang a song of sass in which he..."

March 7, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Continued Story

Daniel Johnston's songs find new life in the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle

"...it I sort of played Joan Baez to Daniel's Bob Dylan: making his stuff a little more accessible so..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Kathy McCarty

Flight of the Conchords

The reality about Aussie and Kiwi acts

"...belong to Paul Kelly. He's not quite the country's Bob Dylan, because they really don't have one of those...."

Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...consciousness: Elvis and that hypnotic pelvis, the British Invasion, Bob Dylan plugging in at the Newport Folk Festival. According..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Elana James

"...to rebound from their band imploding by touring with Bob Dylan. That's exactly what happened to Austin's Elana James...."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Factory Girl

Sienna Miller nails Edie Sedgwick's gamine naivete in this biopic, but the film feels far too pat for its own good.

"...and his entourage of Factory people before falling for Bob Dylan (Christensen, vaguely billed as the "Musician"), thus incurring..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Your Life

The album, dead? Define dead.

"...Riverboat Gamblers or Be Your Own Pet? Bob Dylan and Butch Hancock. Which song for prime time?..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Music DVDs

"...Bob Dylan: The Unauthorized Documentaries..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Shawn Badgley

Doug Sahm & Band, The Sir Douglas Band

Reissues

"...twinkly trappings. Never mind the star-studded lineup that included Bob Dylan, Dr. John, and David "Fathead" Newman, no one..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Okie Dokie Stomp

Clifford Antone didn't invent the blues, he immortalized them

"...the bandstand than in the audience, like the time Bob Dylan watched the T-Birds. There were also nights that..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

"...in some cases pronounced superior – to Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, and Brian Wilson. The now 45-year-old, Waller, Texas-dwelling..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Crackin' Up

The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'

"...In the last year I've probably listened to more Bob Dylan than anything else."..."

April 14, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Page Two: Aww, Canada ...

At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006

"...of us in the states. The importance of even Bob Dylan in my life, which has intensified over the..."

March 10, 2006 Column by Louis Black

North Country

Charlize Theron stars in this fictionalized, rousing, but nevertheless predictable account of the first class-action sexual discrimination suit.

"...A welcome and appropriate treat is the flurry of Bob Dylan tunes that can be heard playing in the..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

About a Girl

The art exhibit 'About a Girl' is about music, really, with three young men behind it basing their artwork on a song

"...Baby Blue." Vera creates an imaginative narrative based on Bob Dylan's seminonsensical lyrics. The pieces are realized in a..."

April 8, 2005 Arts Feature by Jacqueline May

Saturday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...PRICKS8pm, Jackalope Austin's Yuppie Pricks are punk's version of Bob Roberts. Trading junk chic for junk bonds, Trevor Middleton..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Songs of Pain Was Not in Vain

The day a skinny young kid named Daniel Johnston came shuffling to the back door of the 'Chronicle'

"...the all-the-time scene makers who would talk through a Bob Dylan/Elvis Costello duet. Most of the club is poised,..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.

"...he’s also seen palling around with the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Pamela des Barres, Phil..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Weather Underground

Former members of the Weather Underground still know a thing or two about "which way the wind blows" in this always timely documentary.

"...protest. What the movie makes clear (to upturn the Bob Dylan lyric from which the Weather Underground drew their..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

Harvey Pekar's two Chronicle covers have been a rare, and deserved, exception to our 22-year focus on local news, culture, and events.

"...in Austin but an Austin biweekly. New albums by Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones were going to be..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Pennebaker's documentary captures the final concert of the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Hammersmith Odeon outside London on July 3, 1973.

"...on July 3, 1973. Unlike veteran documentarian Pennebaker's previous Bob Dylan film Don't Look Back, which captured the offstage..."

Dec. 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancing About Architecture

Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumption

"...include the Newport Folk Festival (the same day as Bob Dylan) and upcoming recording work is an album with..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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