For the past month, the world has been fascinated by a new movie about a 20-year-old with a head full of ideas rolling from the North Country into New York City in 1961 and changing music forever.
The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown just yesterday scored eight Oscar nominations, including nods for best picture, best director, best lead and supporting actors, best sound and more.
It already had garnered awards and nominations, from the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild, from BAFTA and Critics Choice.
Our Tribute
This week’s podcast, a tribute to this wonderful film, features a tune from that same time period in the Dylan story. It’s our version of Bob’s version of “Corrina, Corrina.”
As reported here earlier, most of Dylan’s earliest fans know this song as a track on the Freewheelin’ album, but it also was the flipside of his first single, a 45 rpm that appeared ever so briefly in record stores in the early 1960s.
It’s curious that “Corrina, Corrina” is not among the tunes covered in A Complete Unknown, since the movie is all about Bob going electric. As most diehard Dylanologists know, that 1962 track was the young singer’s first recorded work with a band (albeit the barest bones of a band, just a bit of light drumming, bass and some tasteful solo electric guitar).
That solo guitar was famously played by Bruce Langhorne, the same Bruce Langhorne who three years later reappeared in the Dylan orbit on the Bringing It All Back Home album, whose tunes famously are much featured in the film. Heeeey, Mister Tambourine Man….
Our Take on the Tune
On this Flood track from last week’s rehearsal, the guitars seem to be dancing together. Just listen to Danny Cox’s big, warm solos over Charlie Bowen’s subtle slides on his resonator.
A Bigger Batch of Bob
Meanwhile, hey, if you’ve detected a Dylan deficiency lately in your daily diet, The Flood has a cure: An entire Bob-centric playlist is ready for a spin in the free Radio Floodango music streaming service.
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