{"id":534,"date":"2013-03-07T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T14:55:54","slug":"the-best-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"The best Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background2.tiff\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"background\" src=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background2.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-543\" title=\"screengrab\" src=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>when a person does a cover of another song, there is nothing as pleasurable as successfully reinventing the song &#8211; when i bought this album in the 1970s by bryan ferry the covers were delicious. it&#8217;s a tradition that great singers can take a song to new places. like &#8220;<strong>son of a preacher man&#8221;<\/strong> or &#8220;<strong>do you know the way to san jose?&#8221;<\/strong> but especially unexpected is covering a famous long political song, a song about the coming apocalypse (or present apocalypse?) and making it a 3 minute poppyier song. kills me<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7zwBHd4kll0\"> click here to view video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background1.tiff\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-539\" title=\"from the video\" src=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background1.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7zwBHd4kll0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-537\" title=\"click here to see the video\" src=\"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/background.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is Bryan Ferry&#8217;s Dylan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,60,62],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","has-excerpt","post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-production","tag-bryan-ferry-does-bob-dylan","tag-example-of-amazing-cover","tag-great-singers-take-songs-to-new-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}