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| Hot Summer of Bob Dylan The Bob Dylan Show has just announced the third annual tour of America's minor league baseball parks. Columbia Records will release a new Bob Dylan studio album, "Modern Times, " on August 29th. Performing on this tour with his band, Bob Dylan continues to experience one of the most creative and prolific periods of his career. Multiple Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Kennedy Center Honor (the highest honor of artistic achievement given in the United States) are just a few of the many awards bestowed upon Bob Dylan. In the past decade, hundreds of concert performances around the world have all found Bob Dylan to be in prime form. Recent performances with his new band have garnered rave reviews and played to capacity crowds. Last year saw the critically acclaimed release of No Direction Home, the first feature-length film biography of Bob Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese. The year before, Bob Dylan published Chronicles: Volume One, the first in a series of the artist's self-penned personal histories that spent over 20 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Joining The Bob Dylan Show this summer will be two modern legends of the electric guitar -- Texas-style. Guitar Player Magazine calls Jimmie Vaughan "a virtual deity ... a living legend." His younger brother Stevie Ray Vaughan cited Jimmie as the biggest inspiration in his own career. As a founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie sparked a rhythm-and-blues revival that continues unabated today. Veteran roadhouse singer Lou Ann Barton will be joining his band for this summer's trek. Austin-based Junior Brown must be seen to be believed. He plays a demonic hybrid "guit-steel" instrument, a combination 6-string electric guitar and pedal steel guitar, a device he cooked up one night in a dream. It sounds like nothing you've ever heard. Throw in a vocal style reminiscent of Ernest Tubb and you have one of the most unique styles in American music. Opening up each night's lineup of music will be Elana James, who fronted the country swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown and is now touring with her new band The Continental Two. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |