Bob Dylan

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.
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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

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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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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
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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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The Saddest Songs: Two Soldiers (trad.) by Bob Dylan

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Union soldiers before Maryes height second Fredericksburg in civil war (Public Domain photo from https://www.goodfreephotos.com)

 

Bob Dylan – Two Soldiers – The Saddest Songs

 

“I’ll do your bidding, comrade mine,
If I ride back again.
But if you ride back and I am left,
You’ll do as much for me.”

We get thrown right into a story of two Union soldiers during the Civil War who are about to go into battle. They promise each other to bring the message of their death to their loved ones in case they fall in the assault on a ridge. They both describe their longing for the ones that are waiting at home.  The rich language and storytelling is astounding. The song goes on and we witness the battle and the tragic death of both soldiers. And none will be able to give their promised and tender message of loss.

But among the dead that were left on the hill
Was the boy with the curly hair.
The tall dark man who rode by his side
Lay dead beside him there.
There’s no one to write to the blue-eyed girl
The words that her lover had said.
Momma, you know, awaits the news,
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Jason Isbell sings 5 Bob Dylan songs – Happy Birthday Jason Isbell

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]When he (Dylan) was at his best he was as good as anybody,” Isbell said. “I think Dylan is a starting point that you will come back to a lot of times if you write songs for a living. I still find myself going back to his catalog and finding new things in it. … With Bob Dylan, I know I’m never going to wake up and not want to listen to Bob Dylan anymore.
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Michael Jason Isbell (born February 1, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is known for his solo career, his work with the band The 400 Unit, and as a former member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. Isbell has won four Grammy Awards.
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