I own the above single ‘for press release only’ CD. You could do worse considering Series of Dreams is arguably one of Bob Dylan’s greatest ‘non released’ songs. He left this ‘lost masterpiece’ off his critically acclaimed album Oh Mercy album, much…
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Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) 1978 – Bob Dylan
Señor is the 5th song to be presented here from my favourite Bob Dylan album Street-Legal. When I first heard this song many moons ago I wasn’t crazy about it and I could say the same with other songs from…
Gotta Serve Somebody (1979) – Bob Dylan
Only yesterday Christian and I were discussing where the weight of emphasis of ‘voice’, ‘melody’ and ‘lyric’ lies in a song. Sometimes it’s melody that draws us in, then the voice is considered and often times lyrics remain the last…
Secret Garden (1995) – Bruce Springsteen
I think Secret Garden is one of Bruce’s finest love ballads. As time has passed, I associate it more with Cameron Crowe’s sport drama Jerry Maguire (currently sitting at No 38 on my Favourite Movies List). This popular mainstream movie…
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Saving Grace (1980) – Bob Dylan
To begin this article; in case you haven’t seen it already, I would like to present the new trailer for the Dylan biopic due out this Christmas called A Complete Unknown. It stars the magnificent Timothée Chalamet from the Dune…
Sarah Jane (1973) – Bob Dylan
The above album ‘Dylan’ (also known as ‘Fool Such as I‘ for its European release) was made up from outtakes he recorded for previous albums including today’s featured track Sarah Jane. It was released by Colombia Records in 1973 with…
Sara (1976) – Bob Dylan
Sara Lownds (now Sara Dylan) and Dylan became romantically involved in 1964; soon afterwards, they moved into separate rooms in New York’s Hotel Chelsea to be near one another. Dylan biographer Robert Shelton, who knew Dylan and Lownds in the mid-1960s, writes that Lownds…
Santa Fé (1967) – Bob Dylan
Santa Fé is a playful, improvisational and rollicking song recorded by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967 in the summer or fall of 1967 in West Saugerties, New York (at a home of some of the Band members, known as Big Pink…
I Shall Be Free No. 10 (1964) – Bob Dylan
[Verse 9]Now they asked me to read a poemAt the sorority sisters homeAh got knocked down and my head was swimmin’I wound up with the Dean of WomenYippee! I’m a poet, and I know itHope I don’t blow it On…
Blowin’ in the Wind (1963) – Bob Dylan
It (Blowin’) has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind” has been described as “impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious…
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