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Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) – Bob Dylan
This is another one of those mid-60’s Dylan songs where I needed to let it settle with me a while until I could find the courage to write something about it. It takes me on average about 5 times longer…
Jokerman (1983) – Bob Dylan
Jokerman is the opening track of his 1983 album Infidels. It’s my favourite track from the album but License to Kill and Neighbourhood Bully sure give it run for their money. You just have to be reminded this record could have…
Jim Jones (1992) – Bob Dylan
Jim Jones is my joint favourite song from Dylan’s 1992 record Good as I Been To You. Canadee I-O which has already featured here is my other favourite from his cover versions of old mainly 19th Century folklore ballads. The…
Is Your Love in Vain (1978) – Bob Dylan
Is Your Love in Vain is another unheralded gem from Dylan’s massive music catalogue. It comes from one of Bob Dylan’s most misunderstood and underrated records – Street Legal. I wrote in the post about the record’s opening track –…
24/10 – 30/10/22 – Bringing it All Back Home, Colombia & An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Bringing it All Back HomeArticle by Richard Williams at the bluemoment ‘Last night I was on my way to see Bob Dylan in concert in…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, Brett Weinstein, Colombia, Konstantin Kisin, Richard Williams, Triggernometry
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Posted in Music, News, politics
I’m Your Teenage Prayer (1967) – Bob Dylan
We are having a Tuesday Basement Tapes festival with this and I’m Not There being released here because they follow in alphabetical order in the Music Library Project. What a marvellous coincidence!I’m Your Teenage Prayer is a band and singer…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, I'm Your Teenage Prayer, the band, the basement tapes Vol 11
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Posted in Music
I’m Not There (1967) – Bob Dylan
I’m Not There is another previously unreleased gem from the 1967 The Basement Tapes sessions recorded by Bob Dylan and the Band in the basement of the Big Pink in Woodstock. The song was part of the bootleg copies that…
Tagged with: Bob Dylan, I'm not there, The Basement Tapes, The Bootleg Series Volume 11
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Posted in Music
I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better (1965) – The Byrds
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…
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.…
