Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Robert Hudson: What Thomas Merton Had on His Record Player


Robert Hudson tells a story of two men who never met, except on the turntable of a record player, but who together captured a moment in American culture. 

In the summer of 1966, Thomas Merton was confessing to his abbot at Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky that he’d been having a love affair with a nurse young enough to be his daughter. It was a crisis of both vocation and faith. And folk singer Bob Dylan, who would experience a motorcycle accident in July, the details of which are still debated, was making a major shift in his music with the release of the album Blond on Blonde, the third entry of a trilogy that included Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Dylan would not be heard from for a year.


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