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It has been over 20 years since Bob Dylan published his memoir under the title “Chronicles: Volume One”. There he remembered his beginnings as a folk singer in Minneapolis and Greenwich Village. However, he saved his turn to the folk rock as well as his Christian phase or epochale albums such as the “Blood on the Tracks” marriage crisis (which he only noticed, it is based on Czechow narratives). Instead, he wrote about the genesis of plates such as “New Morning” (1970) or “Oh Mercy” (1989).
At the time, this was pushed on the characteristic unpredictability and miracle of the author. Later it was learned that some of the chapters of “Chronicles” originally wrote as a liner Notes for LP reresolves, or better: composed. (Not everything that could be read in “Chronicles” came from Dylan. He had put it together from old newspaper articles and quotations from Hemingway, Proust, Twain and Charles Mingus.) Dylan simply tied a few texts written for a failed project into a packed memoir. Would he ever fill the gaps? Most fans held the title additive “Volume One” for a typical Dylan Finete.
Sean Penn reads Dylan
But at the beginning of the week, British-American journalist Louis Theroux released a new episode of his podcast, in which he had a detailed talk to actor Sean Penn. In the conversation that was already recorded in March, Penn spoke, among other things, about his friendship with Jack Nicholson, his attempt to cold a paparazzihis meetings with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, his interview with the Mexican drug baron El Chapo for the Rolling Stone and his marriage to Madonna.
Towards the end of the conversation, Theroux notes in relation to James Mangold’s Dylan-Biopic “A Complete Unknown” that Penn had read the audio book for “Chronicles”. And he explains more casually: “Yes, I will soon make the second part.” Theroux can hardly believe it. “What? He has a new book?” “Yes,” Chronicles Two “, says Penn.
Dylan at the Outlaw Festival
After the anonymously scattered rumors about a new dylan album have not specified in recent months, Penn seems to be a pretty safe source. But what is it about in Dylan’s new memories? Does he dance out of all expectations again? Does he write about the less illuminated life and creative phases? Are there chapters on the production of “Empire Burlesque”? “Under the Red Sky”? “The Traveling Wilburies, Volume 3”? Or “Christmas in the Heart”?
Bob Dylan himself has not commented, but has been on stage as one of the headliners of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Festival since Tuesday. On the first evening he played In addition to a few covers (such as the Pogues song “A Rainy Night in Soho”) and classics also songs of his albums “Another Side of Bob Dylan”, “Under the Red Sky”, “Together through Life” and “Tempest”. Are these initial indications of the content of “Chronicles: Volume Two”?