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The Dickey Betts Song Bob Dylan Wished He Had Written

When former Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts died in April 2024, he left a legacy of technical virtuosity and generation-defining songwriting that inspired plenty of his peers — including Bob Dylan.Betts reflected on his relationship with Dylan in an interview with Ray Padgett for his book Pledging My Time: Conversations With Bob Dylan Band Members, which he reshared in his Flagging Down the Double E's newsletter. The two first crossed paths in […]

todayApril 18, 2024

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28 Songs Written About Bandmates

People write songs about people. And that naturally includes one's own bandmates.In some cases, the purpose of writing a song about a bandmate is to make clear feelings of animosity, whether they're justified or not. After all, what better way to get a point across than through the very medium that you once found common ground in. This is more likely once a musician has left a band (ex: George Harrison's "Sue Me, […]

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Composer re-creates music written by Auschwitz orchestra in Holocaust

Add to your saved storiesSaveWith the wave of a conductor’s baton, a heartbreaking melody began to resound inside a concert hall in London — a song composed by a prisoner in a Nazi death camp that, until Monday, had not been played in public.“Futile Regrets,” as the composition was titled, unfolded like the pages of a tragic novel. The violin strings reverberated with the weight of unspeakable sorrows. With each […]

todayNovember 29, 2023 3

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