When Did You Leave Heaven? is a very quaint and tender song from Bob. It comes from one of his most scorned records, the 1988 Down In The Groove. It was Dylan’s second consecutive album, after Knocked Out Loaded, to…
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What Can I Do For You? – Bob Dylan
Sometimes you’ve just got to have a bit of Christian Bob to keep you on the straight and narrow. Hearing this this morning was good timing for me too, as the demons stepped out from the shadows and started getting…
Some Enchanted Evening – Bob Dylan
As the music library project rounds the bend for the final straight, you will find more songs from Bob the Maestro appearing here as songs from his massive catalogue are added retrospectively to the alphabetical listing. Some Enchanted Evening is…
Wigwam – Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s 1970 album Self Portrait was disdained by almost all fans and critics, in large part because many of the songs were considered a farce and it seemed Bob wasn’t taking his songwriting seriously. What Bob was doing here…
Seattle – Mark Knopfler
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,…
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
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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, Joan Baez, The Times They Are a Changin, when the ship comes in
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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
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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…
