3. Bob Dylan
This again. ‘You’re A Big Girl Now’, let’s start there! There’s such maturity in those lyrics from someone who’s still such a young man. He was born an old soul, was Bob. Listening to this album is like opening a box full of treasures from folk rock treasures and a bit of the blues. There are more stories in their record than other Dylan records too, I think. They play like small movies. Recently, an interviewer said experiencing my record was like taking in a painting, and I loved that – records that feel very visual are the things that influence me the most. Take a song like ‘Simple Twist Of Fate’ and all its little images that build this film in your head. That song’s perfect at capturing the sliding doors scenario which is life itself.
