The song’s title evokes both the “back pages” of a book – its end – and the “pages” of life that lay behind a person as they proceed onward from start to finish. As Dylan turns the page on his past…
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Shooting Star (1989) – Bob Dylan
“The song came to me complete, full in the eyes like I’d been traveling on the garden pathway of the sun and just found it. It was illuminated. I’d seen a shooting star from the backyard of our house, or…
Shenandoah (1988) – Bob Dylan
When I hear this version, I am in a canoe in a river in the East Part of USA, ca 1770, paddling to meet my sweet Indian princess.– Anon Even a Dylan album Rolling Stone labelled as his worst has…
Series of Dreams (1989) – Bob Dylan
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…
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…
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