We're paying tribute this week to the life and work ofBob Dylan, who is celebrating 50 years of revolutionary recordings in 2012. His critically acclaimed 35thstudio album,Tempest, is out Tuesday, Sept. 11, and hetours Canada extensivelyin October and November. We asked a variety of musicians about their all-time favourite Dylan songs and will post their responses every day for the rest of the week.
Over the past decade, hip-hop icon Ice-T has been busy acting on the NBC drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the reality show Ice Loves Coco and tending to musical pursuits on the side. His latest venture is producing a new doc called Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp, which is screening at TIFF on Sunday, Sept. 16.
While in Toronto to promote the film, Ice-T revealed that his favourite Dylan song is Subterranean Homesick Blues from the 1965 LP Bringing it All Back Home.
When I first got my record deal, Seymour Stein, head of Sire Records who signed Ramones, Madonna and Ministry, he told me I sounded like Bob Dylan. He compared me to Bob Dylan because of my storytelling. And I knew who Bob Dylan was, so I took it as a compliment. And I love that song. It's just a rap, man.
You know what else about Bob Dylan is that he said something really nice about me in his book Chronicles. Since Ive been doing music, Ive gotten compliments from people like him or Bono, and its always weird when you get compliments from people from a whole other genre or time. Its definitely something you take to heart and appreciate.
Keep checkingCBC Music's Bob Dylan pagethis week for more thoughts on the man and his songs.
Join the conversation. What's your favourite Bob Dylan song? Please tell us what it is and why.
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