R O O T S R O C K i n k

A news paper for every Roots Rock music lover out there! Published: Friday, 08.03.2013

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R O O T S R O C K i n k

BOB DYLAN ABOUT HIS

SONGWRITING PAGE 4 TO 10

SAVE ME,

SAN FRANSISCO PAGE 11

YOUR FAVOURITE

MUSICIANS PAGE 12 AND 13

page 4 to 10

BOB DYLAN

interview

page 17 to 20

BOB DYLANinterview

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SAVING CHILDREN BY CHOCOLATE & WINE article

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SAVING CHILDREN BY CHOCOLATE & WINE article

page 12 to 13

PERFORM WITH YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICIANSarticle

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PERFORM WITH YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICIANSarticle

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ANDERS OSBORNEinterview

page 26 to 27

ANDERS OSBORNEinterview

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ROOTS ROCK TV-SHOWreview & program

page 28 to 32

ROOTS ROCK TV-SHOWreview & program

Official photography: Bob Dylan

A 7 pages long article about everyone’s favourite musician, Bob Dylan. «-I’m trying to explain something that can’t be explained, help me out, says Bob Dylan. It’s a midsummer day, an hour or so before evening, and we are seated at a table on a shaded patio, at the rear of a Santa Monica restaurant. Dylan is dressed warmer than the Southern California weather invited, in a buttoned black leather jacket over a thick white T-shirt. He has a glass of cold water in front of him.»

«Helping and relating to children has always been a priority for us (Train). We were kids ourselves when we started Train, and played in coffee shops in and around San Francisco - and now we all have children of our own. Because of that, the fact that some of us have experienced our children being in hospital NICIUs, and our San Francisco roots, we feel like the best way for us to give back is with the Family House organization.»

Ready your instruments (or even just your interest for the music), as the 3rd of June is the beginning of an experience of a lifetime. Butch Trucks and Oteil Burbrigde (The Allman Brothers Band), along with Luther and Cody Dickinson (The North Mississippi Allstars), are all set to greet you with five days consisting of master classes, jam sessions and live performances.

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Bob Dylan

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What indeed? What is it that his one man has been able to carry out, to change, only by playing his music? Bob Dylan is known for a numerous of things, and not only within the world of song and tunes. The man took music to a new level, inviting and combining genres together, making a whole new sound to it.

Over the years, his music has incorpo-rated several styles including pop music, folk music, gospel, rock and even jazz. As his musical topics highlights subjects of the political, social, philosophical and literary work, he has opened minds, and thus became the voice of the people. Bob Dylan has been seen as a hero of the people particularly in the 1960’s as his music highlights intense political concerns and social needs. While he has completed many musical works for various issues throughout his life, Bob Dylan is most noted for his works on the civil rights movement. This has meant that many people, particularly the African-American culture, regard him as a highly important individ-ual and a pioneer of human rights.

What made his work so much more powerful was that he was a white man delivering a message about black people’s rights. At that time, white people paid much closer attention to the words of a white man than that of a black man, and Bob Dylan saw the opportunity for delivering the message in its most powerful form: music. It was anything but unusual that his songs focused on real life experiences of recent events. Even now, in an age of 72 years, 52 years after his first breakthrough, he’s as active as ever, making yet another hit after another. The album “Tempest” was released quite recently, the 10th of

September, 2012. From the album “Time Out of Mind” (1997), through “Love and Theft” (2001) and until now, Dylan changed his reasons for making music.

Playing it out loud“Time Out of Mind, that was the be-ginning of me making records for an audience that I was playing to night after night. They were different people from different walks of life, different environments and ages. There was no reason for these new people to hear songs I’d written 30 years earlier for different purposes. If I was going to continue on, what I needed were new songs, and I had to write them, not necessarily to make records, but to play for the public. The songs on Time Out of Mind weren’t meant for somebody to listen to at home. Most of the songs work, whereas before, there might have been better records, but the songs don’t work. So I’ll stick with what I was doing after Time Out of Mind, rather than what I was doing in the Seventies and Eighties, where the songs just don’t work.”

The music he made was now for meant for being played live, making new songs instead of wearing out the old, playing out to the public. After all, the man still goes on Tours. Playing about one to two hundred gigs worldwide: every year! This would probably make him the hardest working man in the showbiz, wouldn’t you think? Bob Dylan was asked what his reasons for touring would be. Could it be the fans, or maybe to see the life as it changes? He replied:

“Touring is about anything you want it to be about. Is there some-thing strange about touring? About

playing live shows? If there is, tell me what it is. Willie [Nelson]’s been play-ing them for years, and nobody ever asks him why he still tours. Look, ask any performer or entertainer that does this, they’ll all tell you the same thing. That they like doing it and that it means a lot to people. It’s just like any other line of work, only different.You don’t write the kind of songs I write just being a conventional type of songwriter. And I don’t think anybody will write them like this again, any more than anybody will ever write a Hank Williams or Irving Berlin song. That’s pretty much for sure. I’ve taken things to a new level because I’ve had to. Because I’ve been forced to.”

Nevertheless, his songs never fail to keep speaking to recent times, with-out that making them impersonal. Bob Dylan never meant them to be something communal, not wanting people to sing along with him on his songs. His goal with his music was to make people feel their own emotions, even without letting out anything about his own. Maybe his songs are as special and unforgettable as they are, because they are too personal and independent to each one of us to play and sing along with by the campfire.

A callingDylan mentions that he became a musi-cian because he was meant to. He sees his job as a calling, not as a career, just as everyone else has their callings in life. “Some have a high calling, just as some have a low calling. But only a few are chosen to their call.” Just as some are called to be a great sailor, and oth-ers meant to be a good friend, he was indeed called to be a good musician.

“Whatever it is you’re being called at, you have to be best at it; highly skilled. It’s not about arrogance; it’s about confidence in what you’re doing. You have to know you’re the best, and be around longer than anyone, whether

anybody tells you you are, or not. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that. However, people are eas-ily distracted, so one might never find their real selves. A lot of people don’t.”

Shout for JudasAt a point, in a concert in Manchester 1966, someone had an other opinion on Dylan’s way of playing and making new music. The musician started out with ‘folk’, playing on his acoustic guitar, and the second part of the show was themed to be ´rock´, as him and “the Hawks” were playing out on electric guitars. A cry through the audience shouted “Ju-das!” followed by a moment of silence walks through the crowd. Dylan replies to the audience member “I don’t believe you, you’re a liar,” before he turns to his band, saying, “Play it fucking loud!”

Later, a fan whom claimed to be the one shouting the word, explained that he was upset with the artist, because the sound of his music was poorer than what it seemed in the album. Another claimant to the shout was documented in the film “Eat the Docu-ment”, saying “Any pop group could produce better rubbish than that. It was a bloody disgrace! He’s a traitor!”46 years later, Dylan’s still pissed about the comment made that day. “If you think you’ve been called a bad name, try to work your way out from under that. Yeah, and for what? For playing an electric guitar? As if that is in some kind of way equitable to betraying out Lord and deliver-ing him up to be crucified. All those evil motherfuckers can rot in hell.”

We felt a bit conflicted about how hung up he seemed in these kind of fans. After all there’s also the au-dience that really loves him. Fans who have found themselves in his music, and those who have admired him for his talent. Dylan responded:“Of course. They think they do. They love the music and songs I play, not me.

That’s the way people are. People say they love a lot of things, but they really don’t. It’s just a word that’s been overused. When you put your life on the line for somebody, that’s love. But you’ll never know it until you’re in the moment.

The songwriterWe return to the subject of songwriting. As for now, we can tell he’s inspired and focused on recent events, and plays his songs in a political, social or philosophical way. As to how his way of songwriting is today, there’s no one true answer.

“I can write song in a crowded room. Inspiration can hit you anywhere. It’s magical. It’s really beyond me. Like the album Temptest as well as the rest: the songs just fall together. However, this album is not the album I wanted to make. I actually had another one in mind. I wanted to make something more religious. That takes a lot more concentration – to pull that off 10 times with the same thread – than it does with a record like I ended up with, where anything goes, and you just gotta believe it will make sense.”

Many associated themselves and their situation with the songs of Bob Dylan, and the genres of his songs changed to match the theme they were all about. It’s natural to believe that this where Dylan succeeded: by his songwriting and how each song where personalized to a certain situation. “Songwriting?” he laughed. “What do I know about songwriting?”

FULL NAME:Robert Allen ZimmermanBORN: May 24, 1941BIRTHPLACE: Duluth, MinnesotaFAMILY: 6 children, 9 grandchildrenZODIAC SIGN: GeminiRELIGIOUS BELIEF:Raised Jewish, but became Christian in the late ‘70s.EDUCATION:University of MinnesotaFIRST ALBUM: “Bob Dylan” 1962INSTRUMENTS: Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, keyboardsMOST FAMOUS SONG:“Blowing In the Wind” / “Like a Rolling Stone”

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“I consider myselfa poet first

and a musician second.I live like a poet

and I'll die like a poet.

(BOB DYLAN)

Robert Allen Zimmerman: Official photography of the 71 years old artist, Bob Dylan. (picture taken from like-the-fbi.com)

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The time is 3 – 7 of June 2013. The place is Full Moon Resort in the heart of the ”Forever Wild” Catskill Forest Preserve in upstate New York. All Music Masters Camps have arranged a camp just for Roots rockers and fans: a four night, five day all-inclusive event by name ”Roots Rock Revival”. The camp will give you as much as master classes, jam sessions, Q&A sessions, open rehearsals, performances, Gourmet catering, comfortable accommodations, picturesque grounds and so much more!

For the first time ever, these two generation of Rock ’n Roll Masters will og together to give you the time

of your life. We are, of course, talking about Butch Trucks and Oteil Burbridge (The Allmann Brothers Band) together with Luther and Cody Dickinson (The North Mississippi), whom will be the instructors for this event. You don’t even have to play an instrument to attend. Whether you’re a fan, musician or both, you’ll get an intimate look at the Southern Blues Rock movement and the music that transformed your idea of Rock ’n Roll. All classes are of course optional, and are open to everyone, at every age or state. You will have the exclusive access to the instructors that no one else ever has.

Ready your instruments (or even just your interest for the music), as the 3rd of June is the beginning of an experience of a lifetime. Butch Trucks and Oteil Burbrigde (The Allman Brothers Band), along with Luther and Cody Dickinson (The North Mississippi Allstars), are all set to greet you with five days consisting of master classes, jam sessions and live performances.

All in all, five days and four nights of music, memories and inspiration, together with the masters behind the music. No matter level you are at as an musician, your instructors will expand your way of thinking and playing.

Don’t go hungryRoots Rock Revival will feature not only outstanding music, classes, and workshops, but also three included gourmet meals a day. The menu fea-tures many locally grown ingredients with a full spectrum of exceptional catering from the arrival Meet and Greet, to the farewell breakfast. The menus through the week will also of-fer a full range of possibilities, like hot buffet breakfasts and lunches, down-home country barbeques and formal gourmet dinners in the Tent Pavilion.

All Music Masters often arranges camps per music genre, as they all seem

One of thebest weeks,

if notTHE best week

I have ever experienced

in myshort life.

(THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR, 2011)

PLAY WITH ROOTS ROCK MASTERS

> Text & layout: Isabelle Melbø Hvattum, Photography: Bobby Samat (2010)

to have been huge successes. As one reads the feedback, it’s difficult to see past the list of overexcited comments.

Music and art in natureFull Moon is a place located one half hour west of Woodstock, New York, “the most famous small town in the world”, is a year-round mountain resort located in the heart of the “Forever Wild” Catskill Forest Preserve. Celebrating nature, music and the arts, this one hundred-acre wonderland of mountains, fields, and streams is said to be a world of its own. Music is always in the air with the Music Masters Camp series, a special mid-week interactive musical experience with world renowned artists.

For more information about this event,

check out http://rootsrockrevival.com

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Check it out! Surely, you’d like yourself some instructors on an event like this. And what’s better than musicians who knows music better than the back of their hands? Here’s a short introduction for you about the four rockstars whom can teach you everything you need to know. Or maybe you already know their faces? They’ll give you a time of your life you won’t forget for many, many years yet.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Butch Trucks is one of the founding members of the legendary Allman Brothers Band and considered to be the rhythmic backbone of the band for over 40 years. One of Trucks’ first bands was local Jacksonville band The Vikings, who made one 7-inch record in 1964. Another early band was The 31st of February which formed and broke up in 1968.

This group’s lineup eventually in-cluded both Duane Allman and Gregg Allman. They recorded a cover of “Morning Dew”, by 1960s folk singer Bonnie Dobson.Trucks then helped form The Allman Brothers Band in 1969, along with Duane Allman (gui-tar), Gregg Allman (vocals and organ), Dickey Betts (guitar), Berry Oakley (bass), and fellow drummer Jaimoe.Together, the two drummers developed a rhythmic drive that would prove crucial to the band. Trucks laid down a powerful conventional beat while the jazz-influenced Jaimoe added a second laminate of percussion and adlibitum cymbal flourishes, seamlessly melded into one syncopated sound.

Oteil Burbridge is a Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, who was trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primar-ily on bass guitar during the current resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997 through the present day.

He was also a founding member of the band the Aquarium Rescue Unit, and has worked with other musicians who include Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann and The Derek Trucks Band. Burbridge is most notably recognized for his abil-ity to incorporate scat-singing into his improvised bass solos. His bass style is influenced by Jaco Pastorius, especially his use of bass chords which are used in his bass improvisation.

The North Mississippi Allstars were founded in 1996; a product of a special time for modern Mississippi country blues. RL Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough, Otha Turner and their musical families wereat their peak; making classic records and touring the world. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Memphis music legend Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi Blues legacy while playing and shaking it down at the juke joints with their blues ancestors. Luther (guitar and vocals) and Cody (drums and vocals) formed the North

Picture from Florida Rocks (2011) Picture from Oteil.net (2007) Picture from Joe Russo Photo Picture (c) Cody Dickinson (2007)

Mississippi Allstars and pioneered their own blues infused rock & roll through the filter of generations of Mississippi Blues men. After more than 15 years as a band, 3 Grammy nominations, and over a dozen records to their name, the North Mississippi Allstars have earned the reputation as one of the most intriguing acts to emerge from the loam of Southern blues and roots rock.