Happy 81st Birthday Bob Dylan! – Best Songs, Live Performances, Covers, Interviews and more…

 

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn,
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece, the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying

Happy 81st Birthday to the GREATEST Artist of Our Time.

Dylan has always been busy being born. At the age of 81 he will start his second leg of the 2022 “World Wide Tour” in Spokane, Washington on May 28, performing at peak levels, bringing awe & joy to those lucky enough to understand & participate.

If you’re a true “performing artist”, it’s hard to retire. You gotta be yourself to the end. And we all know that Zimmy will not back down.

Here @ borntolisten.com, alldylan.com & musicthisday.com we got about 2000 Bob Dylan posts alive. In this tribute I’ll try to give an overview & hopefully lead you [the reader] to material you might find interesting.

Here are some selected posts to check out:

• All Bob Dylan lists @ MusicThisDay.com

Songs

• The 100 Best Bob Dylan Songs Recorded in the 60s
• The 50 Best Bob Dylan Songs Recorded in the 70s
• The 40 Best Bob Dylan Songs Recorded in the 80s
• The 20 Best Bob Dylan Songs Recorded in the 90s
• The 35 Best Bob Dylan Songs recorded in the 21st Century
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• 10 Essential Bob Dylan Performances not (yet) released
• The Best Songs: Visions of Johanna
• The Best Songs: Tangled Up In Blue
• The Best Songs: Like A Rolling Stone
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• Bob Dylan Best Songs from the 60s – 4 different lists (Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Guardian and Mojo)
• Bob Dylan Best Songs from the 70s – 6 different lists (Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Guardian and more..)
• Bob Dylan Best Songs from the 80s – 6 different lists (Rolling Stone, Uncut, The Guardian and more..)

Live Performances

• Top 100 Bob Dylan Concerts
• The “Best” Version of Songs on the Never Ending Tour
• Bob Dylan – 10 Brilliant live performances from the year 1988
• Bob Dylan – 10 Brilliant live performances from the year 1989
• Bob Dylan – 10 Brilliant live performances from the year 1990
• The 30 songs Bob Dylan has played live the most
• Bob Dylan – 21 Live versions of Key West (Philosopher Pirate)
• Bob Dylan – 24 Live versions of Every Grain of Sand
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• Bob Dylan: 5 GREAT live versions of his brilliant song “Most of the Time”
• GREAT concert: Bob Dylan @ Palác kultury, Prague, Czech Republic – March 11, 1995
• Bob Dylan @ Sun Theater, Anaheim, California – March 10, 2000
• Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Ring Them Bells”
• Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “If You See Her, Say Hello”

Covers

• Bob Dylan: Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground (Willie Nelson)
• Bob Dylan Sings Neil Young’s Old Man (3 versions)
• Bob Dylan: Willin’ (Lowell George)
• The Saddest Songs: Two Soldiers (trad.) by Bob Dylan
• Great video: Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder & Van Dyke Parks: Do Re Mi (Woody Guthrie) LA Jan 2009
• Bob Dylan & Van Morrison sing “More and More” in New York City 1998
• Bob Dylan Sings Gordon Lightfoot
• Bob Dylan sings 11 Hank Williams songs
• Bob Dylan performing a powerful “Go Down, Moses” in Tel Aviv 1987
• Watch Bob Dylan Cover “The End of the Innocence”

Other stuff

• Bob Dylan quotes from the 60’s
• Great Bob Dylan Quotes 1975 – 1979
• Eric Clapton & Bob Dylan Performing Together
• Great new book: Bob Dylan in London: Troubadour Tales
• Bob Dylan: Listen to 10 studio takes of “Tell Ol’ Bill” (and chat between the takes)
• A Bob Dylan Playlist – 7 songs with the word “President” in the lyrics
• Bob Dylan: Live versions of 10 songs from “John Wesley Harding”
• The classic Bob Dylan “60 Minutes” interview with Ed Bradley in 2004
• Rollin Rain and Hard Thunder – An alternative Bob Dylan Compilation Film
• Watch Bob Dylan private concert for one man Philadelphia, 2014
• Eat the document a Bob Dylan film 1972
• Bob Dylan: Watch Bob Brown (20/20 ABC TV) Interview – raw unedited footage (52 minutes)
• Bob Dylan film and tv appearances through the years

 

Check out:

• Bob Dylan posts @ borntolisten.com
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• MusicThisDay.com
• Music lists @ MusicThisDay.com
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• Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com