I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better is one of the most buoyant sounding songs about a break-up I have heard. It was released in 1965 as a B side to All I Really Want to Do (Bob Dylan). The Byrds…
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If I Were a Carpenter (1966) – Bobby Darin
If I Were a Carpenter was written by folksinger Tim Hardin and is one of the first songs I remember hearing and being very fond of. There are many versions but Bobby Darin’s slower live version presented below is my favourite.…
I Threw It All Away (1969) – Bob Dylan
This is the first song to appear from Bob Dylan’s 1969 record – Nashville Skyline. It’s a gorgeous ballad and I always enjoyed listening to his live recording on the Johnny Cash show. Dylan is singing about the end of…
I Want You (1966) – Bob Dylan
When I was playing Pool with friends in Canberra back in 1994, we would replay this song to death on the jukebox. That’s when bars had jukeboxes where you entered coin change, perhaps they still do. I don’t know. Our…
I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know (1970) – Bob Dylan
I’ve Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know About Him is a song, written by Cecil Null in 1953, but was adapted by Bob Dylan for his 1970 album Self Portrait. The song tells the story of the ex-girlfriend of a young…
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (1967) – Bob Dylan
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine is the second song to appear here from Dylan’s underrated 1967 record John Wesley Harding. It has been covered by many artists, including Joan Baez on her all-Dylan album Any Day Now, as well as Eric Clapton.…
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live 1966) – Bob Dylan
This song was originally released in 1964 on his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan, but the version below is from the legendary Manchester Free Trade Hall 1966 concert. This bootleg records one of the most momentous occasions in…
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I Believe in You (1979) – Bob Dylan
Today’s song I Believe in You and Precious Angel are my favourite songs from Dylan’s conversion to Christianity record Slow Train Coming. I remember in my second year on Exped at Sea listening to this song ad nauseam. You would…
Huck’s Tune (2007) – Bob Dylan
This unheralded later day mystical tune from Dylan was released on the movie Lucky You directed by Curtis Hansen and also appeared on the above Tell Tell Signs (1989 – 2006). Dylan and Hurtis had previously worked together for the…
Hard Times (1992) – Bob Dylan
Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tearsWhile we all sup sorrow with the poorThere’s a song that will linger forever in our earsOh, hard times, come again no more‘Tis the song, the sigh of the wearyHard…
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