{"id":1227,"date":"2016-04-09T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2016-04-09T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T17:46:34","slug":"the-seguin-brothers-desolation-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"The S\u00e9guin brothers &#8211; Desolation Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1430\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardaseguin.com\/fra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0034_1240-e1460221542515.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1430\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1430\" src=\"http:\/\/richardaseguin.com\/fra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0034_1240-e1460221542515.jpg\" alt=\"Robert et Richard\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob and Richard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bob Dylan became the voice of the 60s by writing songs about contemporary issues, songs like \u201cBlowin&#8217; in the Wind\u201d, \u201cA Hard Rain&#8217;s a-Gonna Fall\u201d, and \u201dThe Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;.\u201d In 1965, Dylan started recording with electric instruments, which completely alienated the folkmusic community, and his lyrics, previously grounded in topical subjects, became increasingly abstract. The release of <span lang=\"fr-CA\">the albums <\/span>\u201cBringing It All Back Home\u201d, \u201cHighway 61 Revisited\u201d (both 1965) and \u201cBlonde On <span lang=\"fr-CA\">Blonde<\/span>\u201d (1966) constitute, in my opinion, the most signicant achievement in all of contemporary <span lang=\"fr-CA\">music<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1180\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardaseguin.com\/fra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0041_1158-e1441810126303.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1180\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1180\" src=\"http:\/\/richardaseguin.com\/fra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0041_1158-e1441810126303.jpg\" alt=\"Roch Tass\u00e9\" width=\"225\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roch Tass\u00e9<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDesolation Row\u201d, taken from \u201cHighway 61 Revisited\u201d, is a representative example of Dylan&#8217;s new direction, a dream\/nightmare populated by characters from the Bible (Cain and Abel), Shakespeare (Ophelia, Romeo), fairy tales (Cinderella), literature (<span lang=\"fr-CA\">Quasimodo<\/span>), legend (Robin Hood) and even reality (Einstein, Bette Davis). As a 15 year-old kid, this was heady stuff indeed and I can easily say it changed my life. My <span lang=\"fr-CA\">whole <\/span>perception of the world changed after Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>Bob S\u00e9guin: voice<br \/>\nRichard S\u00e9guin: acoustic guitar, mandolin, MIDI guitar (upright bass)<br \/>\nRoch Tass\u00e9: drums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/richardaseguin.com\/fra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Desolation-Row.mp3\">Desolation Row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan became the voice of the 60s by writing songs about contemporary issues, songs like \u201cBlowin&#8217; in the Wind\u201d, \u201cA Hard Rain&#8217;s a-Gonna Fall\u201d, and \u201dThe Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;.\u201d In 1965, Dylan started recording with electric instruments, which completely alienated the folkmusic community, and his lyrics, previously grounded in topical subjects, became increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eng.richardaseguin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}