I decided to listen to one song per every Dylan album (that meant changing cd's very frequently). Original release year between brackets: "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (1962) "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (1963) "With God On Our Side" (1964) "Motorpsycho Nitemare" (1964) "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (1965) "Tombstone Blues" (1965) "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966) "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" (1967) "Girl from the North Country" (1969) "Days of 49" (1970) "Day of the Locusts" (1970) "Billy 4" (1973) "Big Yellow Taxi" (1973) "Hazel" (1974) "All Along The Watchtower" (live) (1974) "Tangled Up In Blue" (1975) "Open The Door, Homer" (1975) Lunch break.
"One More Cup of Coffee" (1976) "Idiot Wind" (live) (1976) "New Pony" (1978) "Maggie's Farm" (live) (1978) "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" (1979) "Covenant Woman" (1980) "Lenny Bruce" (1981) "License to Kill" (1983) "Masters of War" (live) (1984) "Never Gonna Be the Same Again" (1985) "Precious Memories" (1986) "Silvio" (1988) (co-written with Robert Hunter and featuring background vocals by Jerry, Bob and Brent) "Gotta Serve Somebody" (live) (1989) (with our beloved boys from Frisco as the backing band) "Where Teardrops Fall" (1989) "God Knows" (1990) "Jim Jones" (1992) "Delia" (1993) "Rainy Day Women #12 & #35" (live) (1995) Time for another break
Last batch of Dylan songs. I would like to add that I chose songs that I like, but that in most cases I didn't pick them to proclaim they are the best ones from their respective albums. It's just a fun way of exploring, in a very superficial way, Bob's vast discography. "Cold Iron Bounds" (1997) "High Water" (2001) "Workingman's Blues #2" (2006) "Jolene" (2009) (co-written with our friend Robert Hunter, like every song in the album bar one) "The Christmas Blues" (2009) "Tin Angel" (2012) I stop here because I don't have Shadows In The Night, Fallen Angels and Triplicate in my collection. Someday I will remedy that.
Went to see RT the other night something i try to check out when he swings by, made even more special being w the electric trio and at the lovely keswick theatre. He did do a few acoustic numbers and on some cuts he had his guitar tech adding some texture. He performed tale in hard time something fairport never did a song he wrote as a teenager he remarked and begged his audience to hang around a few more years such a witty bastard he is. Ms Colvin his opener that night also joined at the end. Wonderful night even if i left early to catch a train which i missed.
My favorite would be 'What We Did On Our Holidays' by a bit and then it is pretty bunched through Full House, must have Sloth... plus I love Sandy with Fotheringay.
I love What We Did... a close second to Unhalfbricking for me, and Liege and Full House are great. I still need to pick up the debut and Fotheringay although I have one solo Sandy album.
Keeping it 1966... Larry Young - Unity with: Woody Shaw - trumpet Joe Henderson - tenor sax Larry Young - organ Elvin Jones - drums
I finally got the 2-cd version of this Bootleg Series volume yesterday. I'm listening to it right now and I'm finding it surprinsingly good. I don't dislike the Christian phase in Bob's career (I'm agnostic, but it's fine with me anyway), but these live recordings provide the songs with a much more intense musical fire. The "stereo" in the front cover doesn't apply to all the tracks in here, some are in actually in mono.
Oh, but Rne, the six-disc is absolutely essential. (Don't you hate when somebody here does that to you? I do.) Actually, I favor all the live editions of the bootleg series. I find the studio stuff good, but far less fascinating. I don't think the San Diego bonus to this is essential because as I recall, it's not the best live show in the set. I'm thinking about going to Un-G Thread favorite, Blues Traveler on Thurs. night. One of my friends texted me from the House of Blues in Houston, and said they did a very good show. He's not really a music head like the people here though. This guy would go to any sports event, but he never understood why I went to concerts. Then he started going like 20 yrs. ago, and now he sees music all the time. He works for a well-know financial services firm, so once in a while he gets to do things like be on stage with Sting/meet and greet.
I just got the Fairport Convention Dylan compilation. I had some of it on other records but there are new things like BBC cuts. Fairport was among the first to record any Basement Tape songs because Joe Boyd got an acetate from Dylan's people. Sandy Denny, in particular, had a way with Dylan songs.
