The alluring, melancholic Seattle was released on his 2012 album Privateering. The album was promoted during Knopfler’s North American tour with Bob Dylan later that year. The concerts typically consisted of Knopfler and his band performing an 11-song opening set,…
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Po’ Boy – Bob Dylan
I absolutely love the absurdist wit on Po’ Boy. Its whimsical nature, the humour and cheeseball lines get me every time. And the music is so playful, yet somehow also poised and nuanced. I’m starting to sound like a broken…
When Your Mind’s Made Up – Glen Hansard
When I read the news two weeks ago that Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard had tragically passed away in a motorcycle accident, I was confounded and aggrieved. At just 56 years of age, he was still so young, and yet he…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Once, When Your Mind's Made Up
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
When the Ship Comes In – Bob Dylan
When I hear When the Ship Comes In, I feel cast back to a centuries-old traditional English song, perhaps something Dylan might have covered on his 1992 record Good As I Been to You. No, instead he wrote this in…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a Changin, Joan Baez, when the ship comes in
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
What’ll I Do – Bob Dylan
‘I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, irving berlin, Shadows in the Night, what'll I do
Posted in Music
Posted in Music
Under Your Spell (1986) – Bob Dylan
A true man of his word indeed. Here Bob Dylan is still touring at the ripe old age of 85. You can read his set list from last night’s concert in Queens, New York. An artist keeps creating until they…
Wedding Song (1974) – Bob Dylan
[Verse 1]I love you more than ever, more than time and more than loveI love you more than money and more than the stars aboveLove you more than madness, more than dreams upon the seaLove you more than life itself,…
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (1965) – Bob Dylan
You can see Dylan holding his sunnies there on the Highway 61 Revisited cover. I bet he didn’t find them broken like I did mine this morning when I took them out of their case. I didn’t dwell on it…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, highway 61 revisited, it takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry
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1/06/26 – 7/06/26 – Judas, Harper Lee, Shapiro on Springsteen
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. My last News on the March post was way back in March, so it’s nice to return to it again. I hope it becomes…
Tagged with: ben Shapiro, Bob Dylan, bruce springtseen, Capote, democrats, Harper Lee, In Cold Blood, Judas, Like A Rolling Stone, live 1966, politics, To Kill a Mockingbird, Trump Administration
Posted in Music, News, politics, Reading
Posted in Music, News, politics, Reading
Watching The River Flow (1971) – Bob Dylan
This little bluesy rocker from Dylan certainly kicks the day into gear with its toe-tap-inducing rhythm, screeching guitar and saloon bar piano. And wouldn’t you know it? This was recorded in 1971 at Blue Rock Studio in New York City.…
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