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Fast Forward Merle Haggard Is Dead — and No, That ‘Hippy’ Bob Dylan Did NOT Hate Him
Don’t call Bob Dylan a hippy. Ever. Longtime country music bad boy Merle Haggard, who died Wednesday on his 79th birthday, found that out the hard way last year. In February, 2015, as the Jewish folk singing legend accepted the MusicCares lifetime achievement award, Dylan, 74, said something about the born again Haggard that many…
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The Schmooze Bob Dylan Sells $20M Treasure Trove of Mementoes
Bob Dylan has sold his personal archive of notes, draft lyrics, poems, artwork and photographs to the University of Tulsa, where they will be made available to scholars and curated for public exhibitions, the school said on Wednesday. The 6,000 item collection spans nearly the entire length of Dylan’s 55 year-long career, and many have…
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The Schmooze 6 Jews To Watch at the Grammy’s
Award season is in full swing and the next big show just happens to be the music event of the year. The 58th Annual Grammy Awards are Monday February 15 and features some Jewish nominees you know very well, and some you didn’t even know were nominated. Here are some Jewish performers and nominees to…
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Music Why Do So Many Grammy Nominees Have Jewish Grannies?
Bob Dylan has a funny history with the Grammy Awards. He didn’t win a single Grammy for any of his truly groundbreaking and most amazing work in the 1960s – the songs that everyone thinks of when you say “Bob Dylan” – nor for his mid-1970s triumph, his comeback album “Blood on the Tracks.” It…
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The Schmooze IBM Showcases a Different Side of Bob Dylan
It’s no longer news when Bob Dylan shows up in a commercial. Since 2004, he has appeared in spots for Victoria’s Secret, the Apple iPod, Cadillac, and Chrysler. But Dylan’s latest shill-ing, for an IBM “cognitive computing system” called Outthink, personified by a talking computer named Watson, introduces another side of Dylan the pitchman. Until…
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Opinion Yom Kippur Playlist: Hot Tunes for Judgment Day
We’re back with a Yom Kippur playlist. I’ve tried to follow the order of the day, starting with Kol Nidre, going to the evening and morning services, the cantor’s Hineni prayer (Here I Stand) preceding Musaf and so on. Our guests include Bob Dylan, Moishe Oysher, Chava Alberstein, The Beatles, Eminem, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Al…
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Opinion Ring In the New Year: Top Tunes to Atone To
This Rosh Hashanah concert began five years ago as a sort of mood piece. I decided last year to expand it and include riffs off of some core elements in the Rosh Hashanah service itself. Some folks have been asking me to repost it, so here it is. You’ll notice that when you click on…
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Music George Wein Remembers Newport — 50 Years After Bob Dylan Went Electric
George Wein, co-founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, once wrote, “If there was ever an average middle-class, Jewish-American kid… I was it.” But the life that followed Wein’s childhood in the Boston suburbs has been anything but commonplace. Consider a few facts: As a teenager who hungrily sought out live jazz, Wein sometimes brought musicians…
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