May 30, 2026
Leave it to Dan The Man Harshberger to take my painting of Willie Nelson (see yesterday's blog) and combine it with my sketch of the Lone Star Texas flag (see May 28 blog) to come up with this composite doozy for my editorial in the next issue.
Daily Composite Whip Out:"Willie In Gold Dust 3"
That boy is a flippin' genius, I tell you. Speaking of genius, the musician Tom Russell compares Bob Dylan to Vincent van Gogh and comes up with some striking comparisons in their approach to art:
Vincent does "Endless rough drawings, hundreds of working sketches. The art begins wild, sometimes off balance, starting and stopping. With Dylan it's the same. Renaming songs, starting over. Moods shift, titles change, awkward poetry is smoothed into art. He keep carving until the masterpiece unfolds. [Like A Rolling Stone] survives dozens of off-base rock feels, rough transitions and dead-end turnarounds before he lands it. . .The bedrock of his art lies in the study, and assimilation, of ten thousand folk songs steeped in myth, deep poetics, and mystical melodies - which he borrowed heavily from and then carved into his own modernistic visions."
—Tom Russell comparing Bob Dylan to van Gogh
I think we all could stand to emulate everyone mentioned above, escpecially Harshberger.
"The ghost of Belle Starr, she hands down her wits
To Jezebel the nun, she violently knits
A bald wig for Jack the Ripper, who sits
At the head of the chamber of commerce."
—Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues
(An Ode to Robert Allen Zimmerman from Robert Allen Bell)
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