No tree left behindRon Rash is at the top of his game with Serena, his fourth novel, and 10th book. Rash’s storytelling ability ranks with the best around, and his history as a poet shows in every sentence.
Release Date: October 10
Director: Saul Dibb
Writers: Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen, Saul Dibb
Cinematographer: Gyula Pados
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Charlotte Rampling
Studio/Running Time: Paramount Vantage, 110 mins.
Hollywood can’t seem to get enough of Keira Knightley, treating her like some sort of thoroughbred athlete whose most productive years are right now. With the The Duchess, Knightley has now appeared in more than 20 films since her role as Amidala’s handmaiden in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. And like a fourth-quarter tailback, the more she runs, the better she gets as she convincingly demonstrates in The Duchess.
Lucinda gets her joy back
La Ronde
Holland enjoys herself on fourth album
Release Date: Oct. 10
Release Date: Oct. 10
Live tracks and crisp, rootsy outtakes with a whole lotta Lanois
As Dylan’s every move seems to add weight and mystery to his legend, it’s no surprise that Columbia’s bootleg series—the cockeyed commentary to the canon—has finally caught up to the latter phases of his recorded output. Tell Tale Signs largely resists the temptation to sketch “latter-era Dylan” in favor of the more specific “Lanois-era Dylan.” Stocked heavily with outtakes from Time out of Mind and Oh Mercy, these “lost” tracks demonstrate producer Daniel Lanois’ influence in steering the legendary songwriter to a place of seemingly pure voice—a revived interest in roots fused with an elder jokester’s nostalgic delivery. The peaceful, assured studio creature gilded here is an interesting foil to the Dylan we’ve seen on the road the last few decades. While a proper encapsulation of the “Never Ending Tour” awaits, the scattershot of live tracks here teases the subject. Even if the collection omits Dylan’s acerbic and often consciously sacrilegious re-workings of his largest-looming ’60s works, the tearing grind of 2002’s “Lonesome Day Blues” hints at the moments of higher energy that Dylan and the Sexton/Campbell guitar duo found while glancing back toward the highway. Catching these dual modes, Tell Tale Signs subtly makes a good argument that Dylan’s later work is richer than expected.
Listen to Bob Dylan's "Mississippi" from Tell Tale Signs:
Eleven albums in, “Nashville’s
most *%$#’d up country band”
remains as indefinable as ever
You can stop any time
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Episode 70
August 19, 2008