Legendary songwriter Bob Dylan has discussed the mystery of the South in a revealing new interview.
Bob Dylan is set to release his new album ‘Together Through Life’ later this month. The songwriter’s last album ‘Modern Times’ was released in 2006, to rave reviews and an ecstatic reception from the public with the record soaring to number one.
Dylan can barely put a foot wrong right now. Since 1997’s ‘Time Out Of Mind’ the songwriter has enjoyed critical praise, with the first volume of his memoirs ‘Chronicles’ hailed as one of the best books of its type.
The singer is also a renowned artists, and in the past year has curated several exhibitions of his paintings and sculptures. A bit of a Renaissance man, is Mr Zimmerman, with a long lost book of photographs and scribblings from the mid 60s also being published last year.
The songwriter surprised fans earlier this year by publishing an interview with Bill Flanagan. The two discuss a variety of subjects, with the latest instalment finding the pair discussing the mystery of the Southern States.
In typically poetic fashion Dylan says “it must be the Southern air. It’s filled with rambling ghosts and disturbed spirits. They’re all screaming and forlorning. It’s like they are caught in some weird web – some purgatory between heaven and hell and they can’t rest. They can’t live, and they can’t die. It’s like they were cut off in their prime, wanting to tell somebody something. It’s all over the place. There are war fields everywhere … a lot of times even in people’s backyards.”
Continuing he describes Elvis Presley’s hometown of Tupelo. “I felt the ghosts from the bloody battle that Sherman fought against Forrest and drove him out. There’s an eeriness to the town. A sadness that lingers. Elvis must have felt it too.”
Bob Dylan is set to release his new album ‘Together Through Life’ on April 27th.
