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Bob Dylan Interview: Reveals Who His Songs Are About And How He Compares To Stevie Wonder

Source: The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Apr 20, 2009

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In anticipation of the release of his 33rd album, Together Through Life, Bob Dylan sat down with rock critic and MTV producer Bill Flanagan for a rare and unusually candid conversation. The first three portions of their meeting can be read at bobdylan.com, and the fourth and fifth installment can be read here and here on the Huffington Post. (For a slide show of Dylan's favorite songwriters, as revealed in his conversations with Flanagan, click here.)

In the final installment, published below, Dylan sounds off on the origin of his latest record, parlor music, Dr. Dre, shout-outs in his songs, giving credit to God, the limits of his songwriting and whether he could write a song about George Bush, and just who are the characters in his songs.

Bill Flanagan: "Life is Hard" comes from a tradition that got pretty much wiped out by the popularity of swing and blues and rock 'n' roll. I remember Leon Redbone said once that the big break in 20th century music was not in the '50s when rock came in; it was when swing and jazz knocked off parlor piano ballads in the la

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