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' ...The Times asked Dylan if he'd ever consider cutting a bluegrass album.
The short answer? He's never thought it.
Dylan, 79, compared bluegrass to classical music, describing the style — that some believe to be have been birthed at the Ryman Auditorium in December 1945 — as "harmonic and meditative, but it's out for blood."
"Bluegrass music is mysterious and deep rooted and you almost have to be born playing it," Dylan told The Times. "Just because you are a great singer, or a great this or that doesn’t mean you can be in a bluegrass band."
He continued that it's "unforgiving music and you can only stretch it so far."
Dylan — who spent the late 1960s recording "Nashville Skyline," "John Wesley Harding" and "Blonde on Blonde" in Music City — said that he regularly listens to Bill Monroe and bluegrass elements can be heard in his music, but "I don’t have the high tenor voice and we don’t have three-part harmony or consistent banjo. ... I more or less stick to what I can do best." '
Bob Dylan on bluegrass music: 'You almost have to be born playing it'
The short answer? He's never thought it.
Dylan, 79, compared bluegrass to classical music, describing the style — that some believe to be have been birthed at the Ryman Auditorium in December 1945 — as "harmonic and meditative, but it's out for blood."
"Bluegrass music is mysterious and deep rooted and you almost have to be born playing it," Dylan told The Times. "Just because you are a great singer, or a great this or that doesn’t mean you can be in a bluegrass band."
He continued that it's "unforgiving music and you can only stretch it so far."
Dylan — who spent the late 1960s recording "Nashville Skyline," "John Wesley Harding" and "Blonde on Blonde" in Music City — said that he regularly listens to Bill Monroe and bluegrass elements can be heard in his music, but "I don’t have the high tenor voice and we don’t have three-part harmony or consistent banjo. ... I more or less stick to what I can do best." '
Bob Dylan on bluegrass music: 'You almost have to be born playing it'