|
Bringing It All Back Home - Influence of Irish Music
Background Information: Bringing It All Back Home Bringing It All Back Home is a folk rock album by American musician Bob Dylan, released on March 22, 1965. As the first album that fully blends rock & roll with folk music, Bringing It All Back Home remains one of the pioneering albums of folk rock. It includes one of Dylans signature songs, Subterranean Homesick Blues, which has a jangly electric guitar & characteristic stream-of-consciousness semi-nonsensical lyrics. Bringing It All Back Home peaked at #6 on Billboard s Pop Albums chart. The single Subterranean Homesick Blues peaked at #39 & #6 on the Pop Singles & Adult Contemporary charts, respectively. In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Bringing It All Back Home the 53rd greatest album of all time. All songs original compositions by Dylan. Bob Dylan - Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Vocals. The series is currently being replayed on Irish TV, which prompted me to buy the DVD; I was enthralled by the original, & thrilled to find it was available on DVD. However, I was sorely disappointed when I received the product; poor video quality, bearly passable audio, & what are really only some of the highlights of the original series. On the subject of video/audio quality, I accept that there may not have been any decent raw material for the producers of the DVD to work from; in which case the blame must be firmly laid at the door the original producers. I am perhaps unfairly comparing with the quality of, say, the BBCs Old Grey Whistle Test, which on DVD is simply breathtaking, considering some of the material is over 30 years old. This series, on the other hand, was made a mere ten years ago. I didnt get any sense of the purpose of Philip Kings original series . Instead there are a few chapters of the story, & if you havent seen the entire series, I dont think youll get the point of the whole thing from this DVD. Id love to give this thing five stars, but Im straining to give it even one; & thats only because I want to support the people, & the concept, behind it. To be brutal, Id rather not have bought it at all; the memory of the original is now tarnished, & getting my money back would be no compensation. In short, if you have no other source for this type of material whatsoever, you havent seen the original, & you need something for research purposes, by all means indulge, but, if like me youre a music buff wanting some nostalgia, spend your money more wisely on another product. Sorry. | Mary Black is an Irish singer. She was named Best Irish Female Artist in the Irish Recorded Music Awards poll for two years running. She was for a time singer for the traditional Irish band De Dannan.
Editors Choice: Bringing It All Back Home, View DVDology
|
Biography: The Everly Brothers Don & Phil Everly are country -influenced rock & roll performers who had their greatest success in the 1950s. The sons of two Kentucky country musicians, The Everly Brothers recorded their first single, Keep A Lovin Me, in 1956, under the aegis of Chet Atkins, but did not become successful until 1957 when they began working with songwriting partners Felice & Boudleaux Bryant on the Cadence Records label. They had a hit with the single Claudette, written by Roy Orbison. Working with the Bryants, they had a number of hits in the USA & the UK, the biggest of which were Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie, Dream & Bird Dog. In 1960, when they signed with Warner Bros. Records, they continued to have hits, such as 1960s Cathys Clown & The Ferris Wheel, but the years after 1962 saw the Everly Brothers become less commercially viable than before even as they became artistically more accomplished.
Editors Choice: The Everly Brothers, Live At The Royal Albert Hall, Bringing It All Back Home, View DVDology
Additional Articles & Resources: ©2004-2008 DVDArk.co.uk * Some data on DVD Ark is derived from this GNU FDL article.
| 
