Author: Egil Mosbron

Steve Earle Sings 6 Bob Dylan Songs

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Stephen Fain Earle (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982.

Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Señor, señor
Can you tell me where we’re headin’?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon?
Seems like I been down this way before
Is there any truth in that, señor?[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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January 16: Bob Dylan @ Portland, Oregon in 1980

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Paramount Theatre
Portland, Oregon
16 January 1980

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Fred Tackett (guitar)
  • Spooner Oldham (keyboards)
  • Tim Drummond (bass)
  • Terry Young (keyboards)
  • Jim Keltner (drums)
  • Carolyn Dennis
  • Regina Peeples, Regina Havis , Mona Lisa Young (background vocals)

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Gates of Eden”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull just glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Written by Bob Dylan for his fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home and recorded January 15, 1965.

Performed 217 times live, first @ Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts – Oct 24, 1965 & last @ Kingsford Smith Park, Seagulls Rugby League Football Club, Ballina, New South Wales, Australia – Mar 31, 2001.

Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California
3 September 1965

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs ‘neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Bob Dylan: 5 Great live versions of “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]My love, she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence.
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Written by Bob Dylan for his fifth studio album Bringing It All Back Home and recorded January 14, 1965.

Performed 365 times live, first @ Troy Armory, Troy, New York – Feb 12, 1965 & last @ 1st Bank Center, Broomfield, Colorado – Oct 30, 2012.

Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, California
3 September 1965

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]People carry roses
And make promises by the hours
My love laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her.[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Bob Dylan – The Times They Are a-Changin’ (released Jan 13, 1964)

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]The message isn’t in the words, …. I don’t do anything with a sort of message.
I’m just transferring my thoughts into music. Nobody can give you a message like that.
~Bob Dylan (to Ray Coleman, May 1965)

Dylan’s third album reflects his mood in August-October 1963. It is also a product for his need to live up to and expand on the role he found himself in, topical poet, the restless young man with something to say, singing to and for a new generation.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan Performing Artist I: The Early Years 1960-1973)[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Released January 13, 1964 – 57 years ago today.

“The Times They Are A-Changin'” @ The White House in Feb 2010:

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