Re: Supposedly this is Bob Dylan's favorite singer

General-Zod wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
 

Bruce wrote:
 He said "My favorite singer…was Karen Dalton. Karen had a voice like

Billie Holiday and played guitar like Jimmy Reed… I sang with her a couple of
times."

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-ZlmWO-ps
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNIHvRKzpD0
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iltA6LDcwpM

 

Of course this changes from time to time.
 In 1978 Bob Dylan's favorite singer was the Egyptian pop star Om Kalsoum:
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dyla
n-19780126

 Dylan: This film ["Renaldo & Clara"] concerns itself only with

the depth of the dream - the dream as seen in the mirror. The next film might
have some blood. I'm trying to locate Lois Smith to be in it. She would
represent the idea of innocence. Do you know who she is? She was the barmaid in
East of Eden. I'm trying to line up some people for the film, and I can't find
her. For some reason I've just thought of my favorite singer.

 Cott: Who is that?
 Dylan: Om Kalsoum - the Egyptian woman who died a few years ago. She was my

favorite.

 Cott: What did you like about her?
 Dylan: It was her heart.
 Cott: Do you like dervish and Sufi singing, by the way?
 Dylan: Yeah, that's where my singing really comes from...except that I sing

in America. I've heard too much Lead-belly really to be too much influenced by
the whirling dervishes.

 Cott: Now that we somehow got onto this subject, who else do you like right

now? New Wave groups?

 Dylan: No, I'm not interested in them. I think Alice Cooper is an overlooked

songwriter. I like Ry Cooder. And I like Dave Mason's version of something,
which is on the jukebox right now.

 Read more:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-bob-dyla
n-19780126#ixzz40SCS17ed

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Re: Supposedly this is Bob Dylan's favorite singer

  Of interest...

Yes, in the days before the Internet information like this was difficult to
research. This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=676381524#676381524