Renowned singer-songwriter Cat Power is set to release her captivating new live album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, via Domino Recording Co. on Friday, November 10. Pre-orders are available now. Recorded November 5, 2022 at London’s vaunted Royal Albert Hall, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert sees the artist otherwise known as Chan …
Listening to Blonde on Blonde tonight. I’ve always loved “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (assuming being in the right mood). Do any of you remember the Townes Van Zant song “Sad Cinderella?” Totally different song, but very similar structure. I’d always wondered about that. For what it’s worth, Dylan’s was released 2 years earlier. …
This nifty video came out last fall, but I didn’t discover it until today and with a rebirth of interest in Bob Dylan as a result of “Murder Most Foul,” the time is perfect to remember the great historical moment when Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan got together for a few songs. Enjoy!
Bob Dylan’s first new song in 8 years is about the JFK Assassination and it’s’ cultural aftermath. If anyone should know how to recreate a diaphanous poetry-slam vibe of art, politics and loss beginning at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963 and continuing to the present, it’s Bob Dylan. He does so with pastoral delicacy …
“It’s doom alone that counts…” Even doomsday preppers are losing fervor, but the pace of bad and bizzarre happenings at large lately seems like old time end times. The bloodless hand rewrites Matthew 24. Apropos of nothing, here’s a clip of Zimmy from 1976 looking like Sallman’s Bicentennial Christ in desert garb. It’s a heck of …
Having completed my initial assignment “to post 25 albums in 25 days that have had a major CREATIVE impact on me” (thanks, Chris Estey), and having enjoyed said project a GREAT deal, I’ve decided to post 25 MORE, for good measure. So, “50 albums in 50 days”, here I come. Upon completion next month, I …
Check these bars. I have been tossing this song in ciphers since College, but I think it’s time to cover this song LIVE with my electric guitar. Bob never played this LIVE to my knowledge. It’s FIRE. It’s a great song that follows the evolution Chuck Berry outlined in ‘Too Much Monkey Business’. “Maggie comes …
In a recent blog, Bonnie Kristian declared Donald Trump to be apocalyptic. As she carefully articulated, she does not mean apocalyptic in the popular parlance as a “disaster,” but in the more literal translation of the word as “revelation.” The title of the last book of the New Testament is the “Apocalypse of John,” or “John’s Revelation.” In …
As one who once loudly proclaimed my Dylan hatred, I thought it was wonderfully apt. A pleasant surprise from the Nobel committee rather than a cause for the usual mystifying Googling of an author I’ll never read. Here is a writer who actually means something to the lives of people all over the world in …
The other morning I had to take my car in, and instead of Uber-ing home from the garage, I decided to walk the couple miles back to Venice; it was a blustery morning, and I headed into a strong wind, with not a small amount of trash and dust kicked up in the air. I …
Blending the gospel with the secular; Dylan in New Orleans, November 1981: This show was recorded for a proposed live album, which was never issued (apart from “Heart of Mine”, which appeared on Biograph), Dylan scholar Paul Williams calls this “one of his most inventive tours”, and the setlist — which mixes songs from the …
Twenty-two years ago, on David Letterman’s 10th Anniversary show, Jan. 18, 1992, at Radio City Music Hall, Bob Dylan and a host of musicians performed “Like a Rolling Stone.” In addition to Dylan, the musicians included Chrissie Hynde (guitar, harmony vocals), Sid Mcginnsss (guitar), Steve Vai (guitar), Carole King (piano), Paul Schaffer (Hammond organ), Edgar …
In 1971, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg wrote and recorded together. Bob took the tapes to CBS Records, who said “no way will we release this crap.” The tapes went unheard until 1982, when producer John Hammond started his own record company and put them out, as he saw it as a “landmark cultural moment.” …
One of the very best (of many) never released Dylan songs, they credit this to the Nashville Skyline sessions but I’d file it along with New Morning: “Working on a Guru Before the Sun Goes Down.” – Pat Thomas is the author of the recently released work, Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black …
I don’t have much to say… not a huge fan of this Bryan Ferry album, and I’ve avoided Bob Dylan my entire life. I will say this live version is amazing, as Bryan’s voice has aged remarkably well. The song remains reverential of its author, while simultaneously being very much a great Ferry performance. Bryan …
This is one of those Dylan songs full of bizarre imagery, like “Desolation Row” and “Gates of Eden.” The horn section on this version is awesome, and that organ player is better than Al Kooper. I’m beginning to like this more than Dylan’s own version. – Randy Rendfeld
Saw Bob Dylan perform tonight at White River Amphitheatre in Indianapolis. His voice sounds like Jimmy Durante chewing rocks. That 60s Dylan is the stuff I always go back to: The Gaslight Tapes, Blonde on Blonde, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Freewheelin’, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, The Times They Are A-Changin’, …
When asked: “What is a friend?” Aristotle replied: “One soul inhabiting two bodies.” In 1989, Dylan spent some time with Van Morrison in Athens, Greece. The two were at Philopappos (The Hill Of The Muses) on June 27, performing Van’s song “Foreign Window”, “it’s a song about suffering….it’s not about any one person or any …
I think they really got the spirit of the song right here. The Dude does indeed abide. One of the few movies I’ve watched (and liked) in a long, long time. I’d say something about My Morning Jacket being the only band around today I’d get off the couch to go see, but that’s not …
I Shall Be Released – Nina Simone. The definitive version of this Bob Dylan song. Please play it at my funeral and sing it loud!! – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
If you “like” Amnesty International USA on Facebook today, you can listen to all of Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan — all 75 tracks by various artists. There are 75 covers of Dylan songs there for 6+ hours of music. I’m listening to Mark Knopfler’s cover of Restless Farewell while typing this …
Thanks to Ron Swanson for this:
Whatever she’s singing, Alanis Morissette’s voice fosters instant 90s nostalgia:
Brian Lee does a wonderful job of covering Bob Dylan’s “I Want You“. I think we’ve finally reached the point where those gifted enough can do justice to Dylan’s songs without sounding half apologetic (Hi Byrds) all the way through. That is to say, the myth of Dylan is receeding enough where just the songs …
Here’s a haunting Dylan cover I just discovered. The tune may be downloaded free here. . And here’s the Dylan original:
In my life, Tangled Up in Blue definitely had the early lead, but as I got older the aural suggestions of spontaneity heard on the studio version of Abandoned Love appealed to me more and more until it has finally eclipsed Tangled Up in Blue as fave Dylan jam. And here’s Tangled Up in Blue. …
“That’s when I absorbed the entirety of the musical artist’s vision for the first time in years. And that vision, my friends, is delivered in the space between the songs, a pause that has no place in a sea of discreet digital files. On an album though, that white space focuses the mind on the …
We have to find an intelligence, once again, to hang at our center, and call us to sense, from the faintest distances, to carry us through and let us reimagine this for where we are now. It won’t be anything we’ve seen before. – Grant Cogswell (www.underthevolcanobooks.com) Cascadia Film Collective Website Grassroots, the film, website …
After much negotiation, Ron Swanson submitted the following Top 25 list: I am not married to the list per se, but here’s the thought process, such as it is: put this out on the blog (more or less as is) and then add a link asking readers to vote for their fav songs to replace …