Dylan, White Collaborate on Unfinished Hank Williams Track

Dylan, White Collaborate on Unfinished Hank Williams Track

I’m looking forward to this album, which is a collection of Hank Williams lyrics without music performed by modern artists with Dylan producing. I hope to see a very eclectic mix as a “fuck you” to the limits of genres.

“I’ve recorded songs in my garage. Am I a ‘garage band’?” - Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour Friends & Neighbors

This part of the article was sort of heartbreaking though…

It’s an initiative that recalls the Mermaid Avenue albums by Billy Bragg and Wilco. On those records, Bragg and Wilco “finished” songs that had been left uncompleted by Woody Guthrie.

According to some reports, these Woody Guthrie lyric sheets were originally going to be given to Bob Dylan. Woody’s daughter, Nora, changed her mind after hearing that Dylan had appeared at a concert for the Pope - an act she deemed contrary to her father’s politics. Bragg was approached instead.

Was intolerance compatible with her father’s politics?