He’s [Pete Seeger] a master at that, leading a mass of people in four-part harmony to a song not even in their language… Pete is almost like a tribal medicine man, in the true sense of the word. Rock n’ roll performers aren’t. They’re just kind of working out other people’s fantasies.
-> Bob Dylan (Scott Cohen Interview – Sept 1985)
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall
h, where have you been, my blue-eyed son
And where have you been, my darling young one
EG: Was playing at Woodstock [1994] a special moment?
Bob Dylan: Nah, it was just another show, really. We just blew in and blew out of there. You do wonder if you’re coming across, because you feel so small on a stage like that.
-Edna Gundersen Interview – May 1995
Facts from Wikipedia:
Start date
February 5, 1994
End date
November 13, 1994
Legs
5
No. of shows
14 in Asia
73 in North America
17 in Europe 104 in Total
Todaiji Temple
Nara, Japan
22 May 1994 The Great Music Experience. Produced by Tony Hollingsworth
Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
Phil Palmer (guitar)
”Wix” Vickens (keyboards)
PinoPalladino (bass)
Jim Keltner (drums)
The Tokyo New Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Kamen.
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
Washington-to-Moscow “hot line” communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
Kenya achieves independence.
There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background:
32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.
“March on Washington,” civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C.; Martin Luther King delivers “I have a dream” speech (Aug. 28).
President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President same day (Nov. 22). Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies
Lee Harvey Oswald, accused Kennedy assassin, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby (Nov. 24).
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Beatlemania hits the U.K. The Beatles, a British band composed of John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, take Britain by storm.
The Rolling Stones emerge as the anti-Beatles, with an aggressive, blues-derived style.
– Rules:
Only one song per artist/group
The song must be released that specific year
Songs from live albums not allowed (that’s another & more complicated list)
Max 20 songs
Please feel free to publish your own favorite songs from 1972 in the comments section…
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan
Written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962. It was first recorded in Columbia Records’ Studio A on 6 December 1962 for his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – released May 27, 1963. The lyric structure is based on the question and answer form of the traditional ballad “Lord Randall”, Child Ballad No. 12.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
