Afternoon Links: Just Because You’re Touring With Bob Dylan Doesn’t Mean You’ll Ever Meet Bob Dylan
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This summer, Jim James learned that the man so enigmatic six people had to play him in I’m Not There really is that inaccessible. “The whole concept of [Bob Dylan’s AmericanaramA Festival of Music tour] was supposed to be super collaborative,” the My Morning Jacket front man tells Rolling Stone. “We were expecting to be sitting around the campfire with Dylan at 2 a.m. and go, ‘Let’s cover all of Desire tomorrow!’ We had all these pipe dreams.” And then? “Bob really wasn’t around. We never talked to him once. He does not hang, which is fine and understandable … or it’s kind of understandable. I don’t know.” Eventually James and Jeff Tweedy got to perform onstage with Dylan a little, but they still never got to speak to the man who wore sunglasses into the White House.
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