Saturday, April 30, 2022

Weekend Music: Dylan & Cash

Often musicians change their musical forms as their art progresses.Certainly that is the case with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash whose genres developed in opposite directions. Cash started out in rockabilly, a rival of Elvis, but moved into gospel and folk forms by the time US Person stood next to him in an NCO club.  Dylan started as a folk singer, a contemporary of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, but later plugged in at the '65 Newport Folk Festival to become a rocker. How much of these migrations were due to commercial considerations is debatable. Nevertheless, in this beautiful folk ballad they join their authentic ternor and baritone voices: