The canine formerly known as Highway. His full name now is Blue Guitar Highway 61 Metsa, or Blue for short. Photo courtesy of Paul Metsa/Alphabet Jazz. In the days and weeks after we released Blackie The Patron Saint of All Rescues to the Rainbow Bridge, I was adrift and forlorn. He’d been my little buddy for almost
On the weekend of March 3, Macalester hosted a summit celebrating and presenting wider contexts of music by Minnesotan folk-rock singer Bob Dylan and Soviet Russian songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky, who died in 1980. Both were monumental in shaping their cultures at the time of their popularity and are considered some of the best songwriters of.
as “Metsa is as likable a narrator ever graced a barstool.” –Kirkus Review / Submitted photos. Alphabet Jazz is a collection of poetry, prose, stories, and songs I wrote between 1984 and 2022. It started coming together in 2020 as I was preparing to move out of Minneapolis, my home since 1978. The anthology is
Bob Dylan and band at the Beacon Theatre, New York City, December 1, 2019. (Photo by John Hall.) This photo is included in Paul Metsa’s new book. You can walk into an Iron Range bar on the weekend and see any of the five character types imbued in Bob Dylan’s persona: the greaser dressed in