he mentioned that bob dylan, neil young, and there are obviously countless others. to my mind, it's time to look at your discography,. if i look at your discography, you appreciate collaboration. why so? >> to me, it is all about collaboration. once you teach yourself chords, if you make a record, it is about working with musicians. i have worked with extraordinary musicians and they're all you need and they all had something to contribute to that process -- they are all unique and they all had something to contribute to that process. and there were also appear collaborations, singing, making records with dolly parton and linda ronstadt. it is just a joy to be able to see the uniqueness of everyone who is a musician, whether they just plain instrument or the instrument is their voice. i am amazed at the combinations and the beauty of people making music together. it has been a joy for me, whether it is out on the road with my bad or backing out to making that record, which you take out on the road. it really is a group process and collaboration. tavis: tell me about

. >> charlie: you also did a duet with bob dylan. >> yes, i did. i did a bob dylan duet.everybody. you and i got to duet. >> charlie: dillon also you put up at the top of the list of songwriters too. >> exactly. great writer and great performance. >> charlie: another thing is longevity. >> he lives in his bus. >> charlie: you're a great man. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

also up for sale or other pieces of rock-and-roll history -- photos of bob dylan, buddy holly, paintings by gamete hendrix, and elvis presley's first guitar. expect some spending from anywhere mementos. whoever gets them will have their very own piece of music history. bbc news. >> to a been watching "news the." -- you have been watching " newsday." >> you can catch all the stories on the bbc website. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. 

>> we publish books on religion, a book on bob dylan and his spiritual background, and we try to operate in that atmosphere of where the -- in that sphere of where the three intersect. >> what's your background? >> i'm formerly with cnn, and i'm a film producer. >> mark joseph, this is the book, "wildcard: the promise and peril of sarah palin." >> up next on booktv, linguist john mcwho ther argues languages are open to growth by continuous usage. mr. mcwhorter reports only 200 languages are written. this is about 30 minutes. >> thank you for coming, everyone. i'm going to start by reading briefly from the book. this is from the beginning of the book, and this is a book where i hope that we can look at language in a happier way than we're off trained to -- we're often trained to. so this is a happy book, and this is how it starts out. introduction. page through a grand old book on what was once known as natural history as we all so often do, and you'll find that almost all drawings of marine life are rendered from the perspective of someone standing on the shore. there'll be some fish bob

bob dylan and all those others are copying him that he can't even react to it.g them from the steps of the lincoln memorial at the inaugural concert the next day newspapers across the country say that's the way he wrote it? yeah, that's the way woody wrote this. so i will leave

. >> sean: they've been the instrument of for legends like bb king, bob dylan, eric clapton even zz topay be uncertain for gibson guitar after federal agents raided the headquarters and several factories taking millions worth of exotic wood and computer files. feds claiming gibson illegally imported the wood. according to government documents if the wood had been finished by workers overseas, instead of by americans it would have been legal time port. not only does the indian government allow the export of this special wood, gibson is not only guitar headacher using it. -- guitar maker using it. could it be the ceo has donated to conservative candidates. his counterparts have mostly donated to democrats? the attorney general holder insists no politics are involved. some members of congress are outraged calling for an investigation and demanding answers. joining me with reaction the ceo of the great gibson guitar company that's henry how are you? >> very well, thank you for having me. >> sean: every musician i know it has to be gibson. lynyrd skynyrd he was outraged over this as well. as

on "art beat," jeff talks to author tom piazza, whose new essay collection explores topics from bob dylan and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll examine president obama's plan for cutting the deficit, raising some taxes, and making changes to medicare. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. chevron. we may have more in common than you think. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like y

. >> rose: and bob dylan's lyric. >> the first book, song lyrics, just beginning eac chapter this one has a song as the title. and it really was because i wanted to express the idea in sort of aye fun way, of what science does. that you have some base of knowledge that you know. but what science is doing is exploring the edges. it's exploring the things you don' yet know. so you are trying to go beyond that comfort zone to go someplace else. and of course the lyric of the song were not rerring to that but i like the idea that you are sort of, you are trying to get to something just bigger than yourself. you're trying to get to something out there you that you believe is there and how do you cross that boundary that threshold to get to some bigger knowledge. >> feel like i'm a tiny boat in a huge ocean to use another song. and secondly that iam swimming in the deep water. so i want you walme througit in a way that i think mabe more closer than where i am or where they are. >> physics itself. we all are away of where molecular biology has gone it has shown the structure of the dna, that

bob dylan said it, by the way, in 1965, and it applies today. you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind is blowing. and right now the wind is blowing hard into the face of democrats. in general, and at president obama in particular. how does the president turn it around? it's been done before. plus, here's senator demint's candid and cold calculation. if republicans support president obama's jobs plan, they'll bear responsibility for the success or not of those programs and the economy. however, if they oppose the president's plan, the worst the president can do is blame them for voting against his legislation. is that true? the "hardball" strategists break down the gop choice of strategies about helping the economy or helping themselves. and not since the know-nothing party briefly emerged about 160 years ago as a party, either party championed ignorance. but in today's republican party, it seems the lack of educational credentials has become its most important bragging point. and let me finish tonight with the consequences of vot

bob dylan and those others are copying him and he can't even react to it. the disease doesn't affect his mind. he is in a mental institution and knows what is going on but he can't tell anyone how he feels for what he thinks. "this land is your land" began life with the title god bless america. you see the manuscript. it is god bless america and has some anti capitalists reverses that i don't remember singing in school. do you? a lot of americans never even heard them until january of 2009 when bruce springsteen and pete seeger sang them from the steps of the lincoln memorial at barack obama's inaugural concert and newspapers said that is the way woody wrote it? that is the way woody wrote it. i will leave you with a version that i think pretty well charts the progression of this song from the angry and bitter satire it was to the unofficial national anthem that eventually became. thank you for coming out and listening tonight. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> you are watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and

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and when i look at conscious artists throughout the years, those are artists like bob marley and bob dylanhave been strange for you to find yourself a few months ago in the center of a manufactured, we should point out, controversy about you going to the white house for a night of poetry. when did you first hear about it and what was your reaction? >> i got a text from a friend. don't worry about what they're saying about you. i was working on a new film, new tv show i'm doing calmed "hell on wheels." it's an amc show. we were working. it was kind of strange because i was working on the show and i was dealing with -- my character is a free slave. it was like, when i started getting these texts, i was sitting there like what's going on? i heard all the commotion about me going to the white house. i kind of laughed at first. eventually i was feeling like how could they be saying this about me? they must really don't know who i am as an artist. it saddened me to see they would take just some words of mine and say this is a hip-hop artist and this is what he does, this is what he's about when