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Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
22 Jan 2025 13 published claims 2 attributable people
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“Over the years, I think Toots began doing most of the harmonies himself in the studio, so it’s really about Toots Hibbert.”
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“I think the traditions seem to be alive, but I wouldn’t claim perfect knowledge of that.”
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“I don’t know about capitalist traditions. They had more cattle. I thought you were saying catalyst traditions.”
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“” I said, “I know just the guy, Bill Keith.” I don’t know if you know Bill Keith, but he was one of the greats.”
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“There are lots of different opinions about all kinds of music, but certainly, the youth in the ANC, who were supporting Nelson Mandela, I think, would probably have viewed the music that Paul Simon, the musicians that Paul Simon collaborated with, and the style in which Graceland was performed as both old fashioned and tribal.”
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“I’m now focused on putting together playlists on my website for people reading the book — because it makes people have to look it up themselves.”
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“” Joe worked on this book for 17 years. In my opinion, it is the most substantive book on world music ever.”
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“I think the controversy — you could see it coming for a month, if not more. To me, you can see it.”
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“Today, I’m speaking with Joe Boyd. This is immediately prompted by the publication of Joe’s wonderful new book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, which is, I would say, the most substantive, complete, thorough, and well-informed book on world music ever written.”
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“I would say that the so-called world music movement that began in the ’80s, which was, in my view, a response to a vacuum or a decline in the kind of music that many music fans, music buffs, collectors had once loved about blues, about jazz, about folk music, and about rock, was no longer quite so available within the Western culture.”
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“I pretty much mortgaged everything I had — or everything Hannibal Records had — to buy plane tickets for them to fly to America to do a tour because I knew that this was Hannibal Records’ first real potential home run.”
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“He did that great electronic version of Beethoven’s 9th. That one, the record company was excited to release a single, but Stanley insisted on approving the edit because we had to get it down to four minutes or four-and-a-half minutes.”
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“Then, when the tragedy happened, and they wanted to change their repertoire, Music from Big Pink came out, and that blew their mind. They thought, “We better not do any more American music because these guys just nailed it.”
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