Jakob Dylan – HuffPost 3.29.10

[Note: This exchange taken from my interview with Jakob Dylan has context with regards to our talking about T-Bone Burnett, but it’s useful information and a good perspective on the subject matter.]

Mike Ragogna: With years and years of recordings proliferating, it’s also a cumulative effect.

Jakob Dylan: There was just less stuff in the world. Why were people better? We say we love the records in the fifties and sixties. It’s not just the technology, but, yeah, the people were better (players) too because they didn’t have anything in the way screwing up their information yet. They didn’t have poor influences yet. You couldn’t really like a bad guitar in 1960 ’cause everybody was pretty good. You could call the union for a bass player because everybody they had was going to be really good. There wasn’t all this other stuff–we won’t name names–that just mucked everything up over the last thirty years or so. It’s really a struggle now to just get to the essence of what anything could and should be.