ESSAYS ON BOB DYLAN BY JIM LINDERMAN: Take the (Paint) Rag Away From Your Face, Now is the Time for your Tears. Bob Dylan Medicine (Sunday) Painters!


Blonde on Blonde by Chase Livingston Collection Jim Linderman

John Genry

Patrick Ginter

Grace Slick (yes...Grace Slick)

Udi Peled

Jana Bouk


Burkhardt

Unidentified (Detail) "Sweatypocari"

Lance Laurie

Jeffery Carnal

Joy Baer


Karen Clark

Allison Bruns

John Froelich

Natasha Laurence

Barry Boobis

Beverly Burris

Kata Billups

Paul Van Scott

Rosemary Moore


Ocean Clark

Highway 61 by Chase Livingston Collection Jim Linderman

Believe me, as I personally did the banner drawing here, I'll never "paint my masterpiece" either, but ever since Milton Glaser did his trippy poster, Mr. Dylan has inspired not only countless singers, he's touched the limners too. I could not even paint the side of a barn.

Presented here, with no apologies to the artists (as I just cribbed them all from the web) is my tribute to the Sunday painters from Medicine Sunday. Let's face it, Bob himself isn't going to win any awards for painting either, despite being represented by former poster salesman Larry "Go Go" Gagosian.

I picked a few dozen…Lord knows there are thousands upon thousands more.

My personal favorites, and I am not kidding one bit, are by Chase Livingston and I'm sorry, folks…I already own them. I bought them TODAY. I love them so much I selected one to start the show here, and another, above, to end it. Chase Livingston? I love your work.

Two Chase Livingston Original Paintings of Bob Dylan (Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61) Collection Jim Linderman

For those of you not official Dylanologists, the title paraphrases a line in "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan and "Medicine Sunday" is a song cut by Dylan and The Hawks in October 1965 which rocks…but does not appear on his official website. It is also titled Midnight Train and is an early version of Temporary Like Achilles. It has, of course, been bootlegged, but I don't eff around with those sites, i'm afraid they'll steal my credit card or something. The phrase "Sunday painter" means an amateur. It's a JOKE, artists.

FIND CHASE LIVINGSTON HERE

Other artists shown (cribbed from the Web) LINKED BELOW:
John Genry
Jason Gluskin
Patrick Ginter
Grace Slick
Udi Peled
Burkhardt
Sweaty Pucari
Lance Laurie
Jeffery Carnal
Joy Baer
Karen Clark
Alison Bruns
John Froelich
Natasha Laurence
Barry Boobis
Beverly Burris
Kata Billips
Paul Van Scott
Rosemary Moore
Ocean Clark
Jana Bouk

About Jim Linderman

"...one of the blog writers to watch for"
ARTSlant

"...collected over the years by Jim Linderman, a character who seems the perfect subject for a Harvey Pekar comic. Linderman treats collecting like a calling, and his finds have a resulting air of authority, stunning in their capture of bygone picturesque moments."
Derek Taylor Dusted

"The pictures, discarded artifacts of ecstatic Americana, come from the stash of Jim Linderman, who in his introduction recalls advice he’s plainly taken to heart: “Collect the heck” out of whatever you find interesting."
Drew Jubera Paste Magazine

"Linderman acknowledges the obscure at the same time that he elevates it.... His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish."
Joe Bonomo Author of Conversations With Greil Marcus, Jerry Lewis Lost and Found and No Such Thing As Was

"Documenting--one clipping at a time--the scrapbook of a leg and garter aficionado that was dumpster-dived in Virginia in the 60s"
William Smith Hang Fire Books

"Jim Linderman...makes us all look a little puny"
Could it be Madness-this?

"Yo no sé ustedes pero creo que es uno de los mejores sitios que he visitado en mucho tiemp"
Color Me in Blog

"...there's something beyond the endless photos and postcards and weird propaganda from another time that he lovingly documents - I think it's the collection as a whole, the portrait of a person fascinated with culture and communication. I have met people like this before, and in reading Dull Tool Dim Bulb I feel I have been lucky enough to meet one more. This site is a goldmine in terms of links..."
The Hyggelic Life October 2009

"...an amazing collection..."
Revel in New York October 2009

"Jim Linderman has a nice little colllection of interesting books and blogs...But every so often he just loses it."
American Digest March 2010

"FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, COLLECTOR JIM LINDERMAN has searched high and low for authentic things--unique and special objects that define the artistic culture of the American experience. From folk art to popular culture, from pulp fiction to Delta Blues-- Jim is a walking authority on so many things American they are too numerous to mention. One thing is certain-- his collecting interests are for things that have fallen through the cracks, those things lost and forgotten--the box of material under the table at the flea market booth. If it wasn't for dedicated collectors like Jim Linderman-- so many important objects about our culture would have surely been lost to time and indifference."

"Jim Linderman maintains a most interesting blog about the most amazing things from his collection—a site he calls “Dull Tool Dim Bulb,” the only curse words his father ever uttered. I love it, and read it everyday."

"...an excellent writer and I devour your blog daily. I am impressed at your deep knowledge of things within your niche..."

John Foster Accidental Mysteries

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Take the (Paint) Rag Away From Your Face, Now is the Time for your Tears. Bob Dylan Medicine (Sunday) Painters!