From Inside a Prune
Judas! from Inside A Prune Hello again and a very warm welcome to Judas! issue 14.We have a variety of treats lined up for you. John Hinchey has progressed on to that album to top all albums, Blood on the Tracks; Izzy Young,whose back pages we will continue to feature in later issues,has sent us a piece fresh from his pen; Padraig Hanratty provides us with another Wilbury Twist; Gerry Barrett at remarkably short notice read and reviewed Greil Marcus’s Like A Rolling Stone; Bob Dylan At The Crossroads and left me jealous at his ability to do so in such a cogent manner; while Martin Van Hees provides more meat and entertainment in his philosoph- ical reflection on ‘John Brown’than I have ever found in the song itself.Oh yes,and the first part of my article on Bob Dylan and traditional Scottish music is also featured. A recent Isis article detailing the history of Dylan fanzines very kindly and pleasingly described my previous effort,Homer,the slut as ‘a gem of a fanzine’.This led to some people asking me for back copies but, sadly, I do not have any of those. (Indeed I don’t even have a complete set myself,due to some of the master copies not being cared for properly.On being informed of this said enquirers then suggested reprinting parts of Homer, the slut in Judas! I was reluctant to do this for two reasons.Firstly,a great deal of the attraction of Homer, the slut was in its idiosyncratic nature and its reflection of what was happening in the Dylan world at that time.To pick out articles that could fit into Judas!’s remit and style will not give an accurate impression of the previous ‘zine.
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