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Bob Dylan Is the New James Brown
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Recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Bob Dylan is making a surprise appearance in Brooklyn, just up the road from Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, which he immortalized on vinyl so long ago in “Tangled Up in Blue.” A show from a music-history titan like this in Prospect Park would have been an unlikely proposition a few years ago. But lately Dylan has seemed hell-bent on playing every town, park and minor-league baseball stadium that he bypassed for a great deal of his arena/stadium headlining career.
When he first arrived in New York City in the early 1960s, the creative heart of this town was Greenwich Village. It is fitting that he is now taking the stage in what has become the new heart of creativity in the nation’s largest metropolis: Brooklyn, people, Brooklyn.
On a white-hot critical streak for the last decade, this will be no golden oldies picnic jamboree. Dylan remains a force in music on record and seems determined to take over the late James Brown’s mantle of “hardest working man in show business” with a tour that appears to have no end in sight. My guess is that people will be flocking to Prospect Park from other states for this one.