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Baker's Dozen

Stolen Pleasures: Simon Fisher Turner's Baker's Dozen
Luke Turner , May 25th, 2022 08:16

Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about 13 records that accompanied his life and career of sonic explorations, from making soundtracks with Derek Jarman to jamming with Bowie and Iggy Pop

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Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways

He goes from me being nought, but when I was a kid I hated Bob Dylan. I knew the hits, but it just went in and out. Blood On The Tracks was the first album I really liked, I had an epiphany when my friend Philip and I drove to Florida one night, then a live album with The Band, and then a few years ago he made an album called Modern Times which I really loved, with this band that sounded like this old broken toad, really beautiful. This new record I've had in the car for the past two years, along with Kraftwerk – James Endeacott tweeted about this 16-minute Bob Dylan track about the 60s and it was basically a record about my childhood, but from Dylan's point of view. An incredible band, the voice is here but it's croaky. Delicious. I've seen Dylan a few times and generally I've gone to sleep, I may have taken a Mandrax or something.