The whole world knows Bob Dylan’s songs. In an interview, Martin Gmür, musician and former «Landbote» editor, explains why he is translating it into Swiss German.
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Cult musician Bob Dylan inst am 24. Mai 80 become. How much did he influence you?
I have Dylan discovered relatively late. At 20 I sang some hisr Songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind» oder «The Times They Are A-Changin’». Then I lost it completely aus the eyes. At times I didn’t care at all about in his christiann Phase. We didn’t play with my band Rocksack either Dylan-Lieder. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that I came across the Dylan album “Time Out of Mind” Daniel Lanois produced. So I have him rediscovered.
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–Bob Dylan, 1967, on a photo for the album cover of “Nashville Skyline”.
Photo: PD
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Martin Gmür translated the entire Dylan album “Nashville Skyline” into Swiss German. For the concert flyer, he had himself photographed in the same look as Dylan back then.
Photo: Marc Dahinden
How did you come up with the idea to translate his songs into Swiss German?
As retirement approached, I felt like translating an entire record into Swiss German. I took that Nashville-Album in front. I already liked that always, it is one simpleright record, with simpler love songs. For the 50th anniversary of the album, in 2019, I played a concert in Dimension. JNow, I keep translating Dylan songs that I just run into.
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