Watch the video below Mr Tambourine Man when you consider Allen Ginsberg’s comments: Dylan had become a column of air, so to speak, at certain moments, where his total physical and mental focus was this single breath coming out of his…
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Most of the Time (1989) – Bob Dylan
It is befitting Most of the Time is the first song to be presented from Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy record, because it is my favourite song from it. If the outtake Series of Dreams made it onto the record, then…
Moonshiner (Studio Outtake – 1963) – Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan takes a classic traditional Irish drinking song here and inverts it, using tone and a few choice lyric changes to turn a celebratory ode to the moonshiner’s lifestyle into a brooding meditation on the essential emptiness of life as an…
Mississippi (2001) – Bob Dylan
Mississippi is the first song to be presented here from Bob Dylan 2001 album – Love and Theft. I would hesitate to guess that if you were to compile a list of music critics top 10 post 2000 Bob Dylan…
Main Title Theme (Billy) (1973) – Bob Dylan
Few Dylan fans know of the music that Dylan wrote and performed for the Pat Garrett movie. The instrumental Main Title Theme (Billy) which opens this soundtrack album ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid‘ is my favourite track from the…
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) – Bob Dylan
Just like the last song I posted on Dylan – Long and Wasted Years, today’s featured track Love Minus Zero/No Limit has no musical chorus or bridge. Dylan recites 8 four-line verses about what the singer thinks is his perfect…
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word (1968) – Joan Baez
I first heard Joan Baez perform Bob Dylan’s song Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word in the 1967 documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England – Don’t Look Back. From 3:00 minutes in the second video you can hear…
Long and Wasted Years (2012) – Bob Dylan
Long and Wasted Years is the first song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 2012 album Tempest. It is an introspective monologue about someones’ longing for a lost love, juxtaposed with a sense of pride that they ‘wouldn’t do anything…
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (1975) – Bob Dylan
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts is an epic ‘Western’ ballad and the third song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks. I consider Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts in the upper…
Lily of the West (1973) – Bob Dylan
There are some good tracks to be found even on Dylan’s ‘throwaway records’. Lily of the West is one such song from his record Dylan (1973). Although the record received very poor reviews upon its release, it managed to reach No. 17 in the U.S. and…
