Month: January 2021

Scarlet Rivera talks about Bob Dylan (video interview, 2013)

Posted on by Hallgeir Olsen

Scarlet Rivera is an American violinist who was plucked from obscurity to play a prominent role on both Bob Dylan’s ‘Desire’ album and his Rolling Thunder Revue tour. In this interview she discusses being discovered by Dylan, working with his co-writer at the time, Jacques Levy, recording ‘Desire’ and her experiences on the road with the Rolling Thunder band. Published on YouTube in 2013.

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Bob Dylan: Live versions of 9 songs from “Blood On The Tracks”

Posted on by Egil Mosbron

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It’s hard for me to relate to that. I mean, you know, people enjoying the type of pain, you know.
~Bob Dylan (to Mary Travers April 1975)

In stunning, total contrast to the previous album, Before the Flood, this 16th Dylan album triumphantly shows more subtlety and nuance than anything he’d ever done, and as honed a use of understatement as on John Wesley Harding. At the time this was the most unexpected leap of Dylan’s career. After years of comparatively second-rate work and a considerable decline in his reputation, here was an album to stand with Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.
~Michael Gray (The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975 by Columbia Records.

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Dolly Parton Sings 3 Bob Dylan Songs – Happy 75th Birthday Dolly Parton

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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s, before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. .. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Blowin’ in the wind

From the album “Those Were the Days” (2005)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, and how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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January 18: Bob Dylan & Van Morrison sing “More and More” in New York City 1998

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]More and more, I’m forgetting the past
More and more, I’m living at last

Day by day, I’m losing my blues
More and more, I’m forgetting about you[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Great Webb Pierce song (written by Merle Kilgore) & recorded by Van Morrison on his “Pay The Devil” album from 2006.
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Bob Dylan: Live versions of 7 songs from “Planet Waves”

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Planet Waves is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 17, 1974 by Asylum Records in the United States and Island Records in the United Kingdom.

Dylan is supported on the album by longtime collaborators The Band, with whom he embarked on a major reunion tour (documented on the live album Before the Flood) following its release.

On A Night Like This

No live performance.

Going, Going, Gone

Performed 79 times between 1976-1978.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]I’ve just reached a place
Where the willow don’t bend
There’s not much more to be said
It’s the top of the end[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Pavillon de Paris
Paris, France
July 1978


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Blake Mills and Danielle Haim – Heart of mine – The Best Dylan Covers

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Blake Mills and Danielle Haim – Heart of mine – The Best Dylan Covers

Heart of Mine was originally released on the Bob Dylan album Shot of Love.

Blake Mills is an American songwriter, guitarist, producer, and composer. He has played with, among many,  Jenny Lewis,  Band of Horses, Cass McCombs, Julian Casablancas,  Lucinda Williams, Conor Oberst,  Weezer, The Avett Brothers, Norah Jones, Carlene Carter, Dixie Chicks, Pink, Lana Del Rey, Dangermouse and he also played guitar on Bob Dylan’s latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways.

He also releases music under his own name and is a much used and respected record producer.

In January 2012, Mills appeared on Conan O’Brien for his first national televised performance as a solo artist. He covered Bob Dylan’s “Heart Of Mine,” which he had recently played at an Amnesty International benefit.

Daniell Haim is a guitarist in the band Haim, and has been a guest musician with several of the bands that Blake Mills have toured with, including Julian Casablancas and Jenny Lewis. On our chosen Dylan cover she plays drums and sing some wonderful harmonies with Blake Mills.

Taylor Goldsmith from Dawes plays bass on this track.

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