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House of the Rising Sun (1964) – The Animals

The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals is one of the most recognisable tunes in the canon of Western popular music. The first few bars of the haunting intro sends chills down the spine and the guitar riff

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Moonlight (2001) – Bob Dylan

At the blessed age of 60, Bob Dylan released Moonlight – a tender and tranquil song on his 31st studio album record – Love and Theft. This song is often overlooked on the record in lieu of other showier songs

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Million Dollar Bash (1967) – Bob Dylan & The Band

You’ll notice on the cover above that Dylan & The Band’s Million Dollar Bash is paired with Tears of Rage, which featured here just over a month ago. I almost let Million Dollar Bash slip through the cracks of my

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10/3/25 – 16/3/25 – A Complete Unknown, Tarantino & Running

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Some Thoughts on A Complete UnknownMovie Review by Scott Bunn at Recliner Notes I eventually saw A Complete Unknown just after it premiered here in

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That Lucky Old Sun (2015) – 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

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Tell Me, Momma (Live 1966) – Bob Dylan & the Hawks (the Band)

“That tour was a very strange process…We’d go from town to town, from country to country and it was like a job. We set up, we played, they booed and threw things at us. Then we went to the next

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Tell Me That It Isn’t True (1969) – Bob Dylan

“I hadn’t realized how much you could get out of voice till I lost it in a motorcycle accident in 1966. When it came back, I had this rich, deep sound.”– Dylan in a 2004 interview Tell Me That It

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Tears of Rage (1967) – Bob Dylan & The Band

To me Tears of Rage always seemed one of the most haunting and lamenting songs Bob and The Band had recorded. It captures in both the sorrowful lyric and mournful melody – a deep sense of betrayal, disillusionment, and mourning

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Tangled Up in Blue (1975) – Bob Dylan

It is a love song (Tangled Up In Blue), and a song about how it feels to have a personal history.. it is also a great road song, filled with the essential energy of the American highway. The Minnesota musicians

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It Ain’t Me Babe (1964) – Bob Dylan

I like this photo of Bob. You know that standard Elizabethan image of Shakespeare we all see (with the large lace collar which encircles his neck – called a ‘ruff’), well I could imagine something like the above being the

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