Tulip Frenzy

Last week brought us “Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” from the forthcoming (only 22 more days) Together Through Life. Over the weekend, we got to read a frisky fun interview with Bill Flanagan.

(Delicious sample answer to a question about the songwriting on his new album:

“There didn’t seem to be any general consensus among my listeners. Some people preferred my first period songs. Some, the second. Some, the Christian period. Some, the post Colombian. Some, the Pre-Raphaelite. Some people prefer my songs from the nineties. I see that my audience now doesn’t particular care what period the songs are from. They feel style and substance in a more visceral way and let it go at that. Images don’t hang anybody up. Like if there’s an astrologer with a criminal record in one of my songs it’s not going to make anybody wonder if the human race is doomed. Images are taken at face value and it kind of freed me up.”)

He’s a little confused on his Mexican history, stating that the Mexican War, and its resulting real estate transfer of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas to Los Estados Unidos, resulted in Spain, not the sovereign state of Mexico, losing its territory.  But this is a trifling matter compared to important stuff, like his declaration of admiration for Chess Studios.

Then today, we get to listen to the second song released from the album, “Feel A Change Coming On,” and read more of that interview, courtesy of, of all the sites in the cyberworld, Newsweek.  Go here:

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/popvox/archive/2009/04/06/an-exclusive-early-listen-to-bob-dylan-s-new-album-together-through-life.aspx?utm_medium=columbia-email&utm_source=bobdylancom&utm_campaign=columbia-email|bobdylancom|20090406

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