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Talkin’ Bob Dylan: Victoria Legrand of Beach House on 'Mr. Tambourine Man'

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We're paying tribute this week to the life and work of Bob Dylan, who is celebrating 50 years of revolutionary recordings in 2012. His critically acclaimed 35th studio album, Tempest, is out Tuesday, Sept. 11, and he tours Canada extensively in October and November. We asked a variety of musicians about their all-time favourite Dylan songs and will post their responses every day for the rest of the week.

Beach House released its fourth LP, the lovely, enigmatic Bloom, in May, and the popular Baltimore-based band is to make Canadian stops in Vancouver on Oct. 1, Toronto Oct. 13 and Montreal Oct. 14.

Here, Beach House vocalist, lyricist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand discusses her love of “Mr. Tambourine Man,” which first appeared on the 1965 LP, Bringing It All Back Home.

“I’ve heard that song so many times yet, for some reason, a year ago I heard one of the final passages from it like I’d never heard it before. I kind of couldn’t believe that I’d listened to the song hundreds of times before. It’s the moment where you hear something that feels so natural — it just flew off his tongue — but at the same time had to be so crafted. Wait, let me find it [sound of scuffling]. Ah, here it is:

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

“I had heard ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ so many times, I couldn’t believe this. It’s like I’d never heard that part. I just thought, ‘How do you do this?’ I have such an admiration for that man. Artists need other artists. Their work, their discipline, their careers, their stories — that’s a vital part of young people continuing to have people to look up to and aspire to be like.

“You know you’re not going to be like Dylan. No one’s gonna be like Dylan. But at least it’s somebody you can go to and say, ‘Yeah, they did it. They saw something and they chased it and they made their whole life that.’”  

Keep checking CBC Music's Bob Dylan page this week for more thoughts on the man and his songs.

Join the conversation. What's your favourite Bob Dylan song? Please tell us what it is and why. 

 

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