Bob Dylan has such a vast song catalogue he decided to leave a dizzying array of excellent songs off his records. We have showcased some of these before one including Abandoned Love – Is this Dylan’s saddest song? That must…
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Black Mule (1991) – Grant McLennan
Grant McLennan is a former front man of the hugely influential Australian band ‘The Go-Betweens’. It’s inexplicable how the Go-Betweens never reached wider success. Every single person I’ve ever played them for has liked them. Yet somehow they never got…
Black Muddy River – Bob Dylan (April 6, 1992 – Melbourne, Australia)
The moment I heard this Never Ending tour performance of the Grateful Dead’s Black Muddy River from Bob Dylan I knew I had to add it to my music collection. It’s one of the few songs I can listen to…
Black (1991) – Pearl Jam
This is my Desert Island Pearl Jam song choice. If I was restricted to choose just one Pearl Jam song to take with me for the rest of my life, then Black would be it. I also consider it one…
Bird on the Wire (1969) – Leonard Cohen
Bird on the Wire is a song by Leonard Cohen from his 1969 album Songs From a Room. It is one of my favourite early Cohen songs and one of his signature tracks. Leonard was living on an island called…
Billy 1 (1973) – Bob Dylan
Billy 1 is a track from Bob Dylan’s underrated soundtrack album ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid‘. Billy 1 builds on the instrumental Main Title Theme (Billy) which opens the record. Most people will be familiar with the second song…
Big Yellow Taxi (1970) – Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi is the first song from Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell to appear in the music library project. I was introduced to Joni’s music when she appeared on The Band’s legendary concert ‘The Last Waltz’. Joni is an…
Big In Japan (1999) – Tom Waits
The first line of Big in Japan sums things up pretty well – ‘I got the style, but not the grace’. I am a huge fan of this song and I wish I had come across it much sooner in…
Better Days (1992) – Bruce Springsteen
I’m backtracking a couple of songs in the alphabetical order here to resume my music library project in 2020. I am at complete loss how this song was not in my original music library catalogue, but thanks to Badfinger’s post…
Big Big World (1998) – Emilia
I can see the first leaf falling It’s all yellow and nice It’s so very cold outside Like the way I’m feeling inside I’m a big big girl In a big big world It’s not a big big thing if…
