Month: February 2021

Bob Dylan: 5 live versions of “Solid Rock”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Well, I’m hangin’ on
To a solid rock
Made before the foundation of the world
And I won’t let go, and I can’t let go[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Recorded @ Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – February 12, 1980 and released on the album “Saved” (June 23, 1980).

Fox Warfield Theatre
San Francisco, California
16 November 1979


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Sheryl Crow sings 5 Bob Dylan songs – Happy Birthday Sheryl Crow

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Playing Dylan’s songs empowers you. It bolsters you to say what your spirit needs to say. Even though Dylan has been completely deified, he’s taken all the spiritual journeys we plebeians go through. In his search you can see the patterns of humanity.
–> Sheryl Crow[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, jazz, and blues.


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Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye – Boots of Spanish Leather – The Best Dylan Covers

Posted on by Hallgeir Olsen
Photo: BornToListen.com, Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at Bergenfest 2015

 

Boots of Spanish Leather is a ballad written and performed by Bob Dylan, and released in 1964 on his album The Times They Are a-Changin’

Dylan’s recording features him solo on the acoustic guitar, playing the song using fingerpicking.

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The Saddest Songs: Tank Park Salute by Billy Bragg

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Photo: BornToListen @Øyafestivalen

 

“Daddy is it true that we all have to die?”

“You were so tall. How could you fall?”

In 1991 Billy Bragg released the album, Don’t try this at home.

“… (this album) was where Bragg first began to sound completely comfortable with the notion of a full band. With Johnny Marr (who helped produce two tracks), Peter Buck, Michael Stipe, and Kirsty MacColl on hand to give the sessions a taste of star power, Don’t Try This at Home sounds full but uncluttered; the arrangements (most complete with — gasp! — drums) flesh out Bragg‘s melodies, giving them greater strength in the process”
– Mark Deming (Allmusic)

It is one of his best albums and it has a eulogy to his father Dennis who had died of cancer when the singer was only 18.
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February 4: Watch Bob Dylan performing What Good Am I ? @ Hammersmith in 1990

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]What good am I if I’m like all the rest
If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed
If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry
What good am I?[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Hammersmith Odeon
London, England
4 February 1990

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • G. E. Smith (guitar)
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Christopher Parker (drums)

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Video of the day: Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real – Meet Me In The Morning (Bob Dylan Cover)

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Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real plays a great Bob Dylan cover at the Sound Check Songs channel. It is a slow and groovy take that sounds like something that The Band could have done.

Meet Me in the Morning is a blues song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on September 16, 1974, and released on his 15th studio album, Blood on the Tracks, in 1975.

Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the real are wonderful musicians and a this cover has a great expressive vocal. The song flows along with an infectious rhythm and blues groove. Very well done!

 

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