I’m facing a potential crisis with my soon-to-be-two-year-old daughter. She prefers Colin Buchanan’s Follow the Saviour to Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. Now it’s not that I don’t like Colin; in fact, I reckon the guy (and his music, and his theology) is awesome. But I’m trying to introduce my daughter to the classics, the greats of music, like Dylan and Bach. (For the record, she really likes Bach; it’s just Dylan, and Iris DeMent she won’t listen to for more than a track or two. She definately takes after her mother here!)
My questions to fellow parents are: 1. ‘Is this a crisis I really need to avert?’ 2. Is Colin part of the necessary diet of milk (albeit milk of the best quality) through which one must progress in order to get to the meat (like Bach)? 3. If so, are there other flavours of milk that your kids (and you) are enjoying at the moment?
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I’m lucky, since my kids love Bob Dylan. But you could always try the trick I use on my wife: First, play nothing but Tom Waits for about 6 weeks. Then, when you finally put on a Bob Dylan CD, the response will be: “Oh, what a lovely voice! So soothing and melodious!”
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Thanks Ben. Just did a quick Wiki on Waits and discovered that one reviewer described Waits’ voice as ‘like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car’ (Gary Graff, ‘Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide’, Omnibus Press). Sounds like your wife agrees. Thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try. BTW. I just played put on a Pat Benatar CD (do you remember the 80’s?) and it seemed to get an approving reaction.
Is there a particular Waits album you would recommend? I’m currently enjoying Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, though six weeks non-stop could be a push. I think I could only get away for that long with Pink Floyd.
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At six weeks I reckon you’d only get a couple of Pink Floyd tracks in!
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Yeah, I reckon Orphans is his greatest album. But for easy listening, you can’t go past the delightfully bluesy Mule Variations (this is also the most popular album he’s ever made).
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Jon. I expect nothing less from you, nor from Pink Floyd.
Ben.I expect nothing less from you either. Thanks for the recommendation on Mule Variations. I’ll be sure to check it out, though you do have me listening to Orphans at the moment, interspersed with some (un)healthy doses of Neko Case.
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