Bob Dylan is releasing a Christmas album entitled Christmas in the Heart (Sean at RightWingBob has some brief but interesting comments on the title). All of the royalties, “in perpetuity,” from this disc will go to providing food for hungry Americans. Long time readers will know, of course, that I think the standard media myth of Dylan as the great American Liberal is hooey; but perhaps even those who embrace that myth will take note that Bob Dylan’s philanthropic work takes place in the private sector, and that it is concerned with Americans qua Americans. His summer tour traveled between small minor league baseball stadiums — out of the way, unfashionable places like Durham, Allentown and Syracuse. If we must attach some kind of label to this troubadour, let us base it on what is obvious rather than what is implied.
Bob Dylan is a great American patriot.
Consider, for instance, this story.
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Okay, I have to do this. Possible songs;
Sleigh Lady Sleigh
Snowin' in the Wind
Property of Baby Jesus
Tangled Up in Yule
Girl From the North Pole
Ring Them Jingle Bells
The Chimes They are a-Chimin'
Posted by Francis Beckwith | August 26, 2009 9:20 PM
All of the royalties, “in perpetuity,” from this disc will go to providing food for hungry Americans.
In case people worry that Bob's not concerned about the hungry outside of our country... It's not all of the royalties, but the *U.S.* royalties, that will be donated to FEEDING AMERICA for helping people in our country. International royalties will go to charities helping those in need in the United Kingdom and in the developing world. Or so it says on the bobdylan web site, which includes this statement, summing it up:
ALL ARTIST’S ROYALTIES TO BENEFIT MILLIONS IN NEED THROUGH FEEDING AMERICA AND INTERNATIONAL CHARITIES
A Hard Snow's A-Gonna Fall
Posted by Keith DeRose | August 26, 2009 11:59 PM
Just what is it with you folks and Bob Dylan?
Yes, enormous was his talent and he could certainly crank out lyrics. However, that he can think at all today, considering his equally enormous drug intake, is as admirable as his song writing.
Posted by Levi | August 30, 2009 10:56 AM
Bob Dylan Speaks Out For Barack Obama
6/6/08, 7:00 am EST
Bob Dylan has come out in favor of Barack Obama. In an interview with the London Times, Dylan described the Democratic presidential nominee in Kennedyesque terms when asked by an interviewer for his take on the US election. “Right now America is in a state of upheaval,” Dylan said. “Poverty is demoralising. You can’t expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we’ve got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up…Barack Obama. He’s redefining what a politician is, so we’ll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I’m hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.”
Rolling
Posted by Blind Willie | September 1, 2009 1:23 AM
I'll take terrorism over totalitarianism
Posted by Christopher Leavenworth | February 17, 2010 4:26 PM