{"title":"Accompanying Bob Dylan","authors":"L. Starr","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252043956.003.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, Bob Dylan’s very conscious decisions about the instruments, playing styles, and players with which to accompany his singing voice and harmonica receive consideration. His own picking and strumming of an acoustic guitar, his choice of piano, beginning with “Black Crow Blues” (1964), and his historic switch to electric guitar and employment of a rock band on Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited (both 1965), are all examined in terms of their impact on the sound of his recorded work and their significance for the songs he played. Backing singers first appeared on Dylan albums in 1970, and remained important for some time. The chapter concludes by examining the unique role of Scarlet Rivera’s violin on the album Desire (1976).","PeriodicalId":427573,"journal":{"name":"Listening to Bob Dylan","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Listening to Bob Dylan","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043956.003.0006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this chapter, Bob Dylan’s very conscious decisions about the instruments, playing styles, and players with which to accompany his singing voice and harmonica receive consideration. His own picking and strumming of an acoustic guitar, his choice of piano, beginning with “Black Crow Blues” (1964), and his historic switch to electric guitar and employment of a rock band on Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited (both 1965), are all examined in terms of their impact on the sound of his recorded work and their significance for the songs he played. Backing singers first appeared on Dylan albums in 1970, and remained important for some time. The chapter concludes by examining the unique role of Scarlet Rivera’s violin on the album Desire (1976).
在这一章中,鲍勃·迪伦对乐器、演奏风格以及为他的歌声和口琴伴奏的演奏者的非常有意识的决定得到了考虑。他自己挑选和弹奏原声吉他,从1964年的《黑乌鸦蓝调》(Black Crow Blues)开始选择钢琴,以及他历史性地改用电吉他,并在1965年的《带它回家》(bring It All Back Home)和《重访61号高速公路》(Highway 61 Revisited)中雇佣摇滚乐队,这些都是他对录音作品声音的影响,以及对他演奏的歌曲的意义。1970年,伴唱歌手首次出现在迪伦的专辑中,并在一段时间内保持了重要地位。本章最后分析了斯嘉丽·里维拉的小提琴在专辑《欲望》(1976)中所扮演的独特角色。