Duke Robillard: on Bob Dylan, the agony & ecstasy
This clip was from the superb podcast Music Makers & Soul Shakers by Steve Dawson (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...)
Duke Robillard has had a storied career, dating back to his early day in Rhode Island when he launched jump blues pioneers Roomful of Blues in late 60s.
Decades later he got the call to work with Bob Dylan a couple different times. Here’s Duke’s take on what went down, from Time Out Of Mind sessions to touring with Bob during the Never Ending Tour.
Fasten yer seatbelts, music fans!
Here’s a blurb from Rolling Stone:
Bob Dylan Parts Ways With Touring Guitarist Duke Robillard
ANDY GREENE
JULY 3, 2013
Duke Robillard seems to have parted ways with Bob Dylan, just three months after the blues guitarist joined his touring band. There has been no official announcement, but Robillard wasn’t onstage last night at AutoZone Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Charlie Sexton, the guitarist that Robillard replaced in Dylan’s band in April, was back with the group.
It’s unclear why Robillard is off the tour, but late last month he posted this cryptic message on Facebook: “For sale: Bob Dylan CD and record collection, slightly used.” He later wrote, “I will be selling a lot of guitars and amps soon. I’ll keep you posted.” His last show on the tour was June 30th in Nashville.
Charlie Sexton played with Bob Dylan from 1999 to 2002, and then again from 2009 to 2012. He plays on Dylan’s 2001 LP Love and Theft, the soundtrack to the 2003 film Masked and Anonymous and his 2012 album Tempest.
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Duke goes into much more detail on why he left the Dylan tour - listen here >>> kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZnWAypJphZzdj8o.htmlsi=BK8Szg_nZvJLuWBI
Time Out Of Mind didn't start out in New Orleans. It started out in Oxnard CA.
Go Duke!
Alpha Males, EGOS, Bob and the 'unfriendly' Daniel Lenoire. I'm with Duke here. If a performer cant treat sidemen in a dignified manner, time to move on up the road.
@gregscavuzzo5457
3 ай бұрын
Duke is not as good as the other players Dylan used , Sexton, Freeman, Campbell, he was just not a great player
@benhenningburk9781
3 ай бұрын
@@gregscavuzzo5457 Still....no need to be mean and unfriendly
Am I the only one who thinks Lanois’ production ruined that record? He did the same thing with Neil Young’s Le Noise.
the reason Dylan fired the dude is for exactly this...talking about him to other people like a little teen girl gossiper
@Zepster77
7 ай бұрын
Awwww shaddap
@tomokra
7 ай бұрын
Or maybe it's because Bob is an asshole. Hmmm? I 'spose we'll never know.
, He got replaced by a better guitarist, Charlie Sexton and Denny Freeman were both better guitar players, Dylan had a great band and his touring band was amazing , Duke left Room Full of Blues to join The Fabulous Thunberbirds when Jimmy Vaughn left, he just wasn't up to the standards of a Charlie Sexton or a Denny Freeman, he is just OK , Mike Campbell was with Dylan alot , Dylan used several great players
I was a huge Dylan fan growing-up in the 1960's-70's, but after his born again era he started going downhill in about 1981. I've read that Dylan would get in ugly moods, and yell at all his supporting musicians, meaning he has no class and behaves like a spoiled baby at times. Duke was right to quit his tour after getting yelled at for no reason, he is a great guitar player who doesn't need to take that shit. I saw Dylan on the tour with Santana in the 1990's, but walked out after the first song it sounded so horrible. I've reevaluated Dylan's early work I used to love, and in retrospect he wasn't that great, rather he got puffed-up by the media like the Beatles into a rock 'god'. Dylan has lost my respect and I don't like his whiney voice, and especially hated the song "murder most foul". Dylan is soul dead, and going to hell soon.
bob is god spelled backwards.
Duke, difficult for an insecure, inferior player to accept your talent.
Dylan’s songs , there’s twenty that are in a class of their own . Dylan otherwise is just a crusty old guy with bad manners and no class . 😊
@macjolly6748
4 ай бұрын
20?? You've no clue what you're talking about friend lmao...
@gregscavuzzo5457
3 ай бұрын
Dylan has had several great bands and his shows are wonderful, his American Song Book is fantastic, give it a listen
Silly sideman doesn't know his place I also dislike Lenois. Also boring.
What I've heard of Robillard is, to my taste, predictable and conventional. Uninteresting.
@lillynietz17
7 ай бұрын
Uhhhhh....Have you've Seen him LIVE?....Seen him Solo LIVE & with WAITS!
@tomokra
7 ай бұрын
Because nothing spells unconventional and interesting like Bob talking through one of his 50 year old tunes tunelessly and unrecognizably ... that's the shit!
@Joe-li2nk
7 ай бұрын
@@tomokra He has to talk. Whatever voice he used to have is completely gone.