April 2012
73 posts
Bright Lights Big City
Jimmy Reed
- Jimmy Reed - Bright lights, big city
…was probably played, last Sunday at the Blind Tiger
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
—Margaret Atwood (via riverbones)
15 Ebay Sample
Bob Dylan - eBay sample, editing together some great versions from Nashville Skyline taken from a studio tape of the full sessions with a commentary from Bob Harrison. Despite the annoying sales-pitch this is still interesting for its insights into the studio recording process.
For a very limited time you can get a few more tracks from this set here at the BigO http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1066, and of course these were the sessions when Dylan hooked up with both Johnny Cash and George Harrison in the studio - more of that is around on the web.
Bob Dylan awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
I did say it was Bob Dylan week, didn’t I?
The White House just announced that it will be giving Bob Dylan a Presidential Medal of Freedom:
“One of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century, Dylan released his first album in 1962. Known for his rich and poetic lyrics, his work had considerable influence on the civil rights movement of the 1960s and has had significant impact on American culture over the past five decades. He has won 11 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award. He was named a Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Art et des Lettres and has received a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. Dylan was awarded the 2009 National Medal of Arts. He has written more than 600 songs, and his songs have been recorded more than 3,000 times by other artists. He continues recording and touring around the world today.”
Nice one Bob.
Went To See The Gypsy
Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan - Went to see the Gypsy (alternative unreleased 1970)
This is a beautiful and quite different version of the song that eventually made it onto the New Morning album. It sounds like it may have been recorded with the sessionistas used on Self Portait.
Good morning to you :)
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I went to see the gypsy
Stayin’ in a big hotel
He smiled when he saw me coming
And he said, “Well, well, well”
His room was dark and crowded
Lights were low and dim
“How are you?” he said to me
I said it back to him…
Outside the lights were shining
On the river of tears
I watched them from the distance
With music in my ears…
Buckets Of Rain
Bob Dylan
It’s Bob Dylan week and so…
- Buckets of Rain (from Blood on the Tracks, 1974)
seemed appropriate today. Always such a beautiful song.
(Photograph by Elliot Landy, 1968)
Tiny Montgomery
Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan and the Band - Tiny Montgomery
(from the Basement Tapes, recorded at Big Pink 1967)
…Now grease that pig
And sing praise
Go on out
And gas that dog
Trick on in
Honk that stink
Take it on down
And watch it grow
Play it low
And pick it up
Take it on in
In a plucking cup
Three-legged man
And a hot-lipped hoe
Tell ’em all
Montgomery says helloWell you can tell ev’rybody
Down in ol’ Frisco
Tell ’em all
Montgomery says hello
Going, going, gone
Bob Dylan
This week is Bob Dylan week. No idea why, but it is always a good idea.
- Going, going, gone (with the Band, from Planet Waves 1974)
Ellen Willis of The New Yorker wrote, “Planet Waves is unlike all other Dylan albums: it is openly personal…I think the subject of Planet Waves is what it appears to be—Dylan’s aesthetic and practical dilemma, and his immense emotional debt to Sara.”
(Bob Dylan with Rick Danko and Levon Helm RIP, 1974)
Cerberus
Amon Düül II
- Amon Düül II - Cerberus
(from Yeti, 1970)
This is on today in Brighton. Think I’m going to play this track. Get it on!
