This is a fantastic Dylan performance of the ‘Mexican feel’ Romance in Durango; the seventh song (or the second song on Side 2 of the vinyl) on Bob Dylan’s 1976 album Desire. It has everything, a song with a cinematic story (similar…
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Ring Them Bells (1989) – Bob Dylan
When I listened to Ring Them Bells growing up it cast me into visions of an Amish existence akin to that portrayed in the Peter Weir movie Witness. You know: fortress, bells, plows, cows, iron, valleys, willow and lilies. I…
Red River Shore (1997) – Bob Dylan
Well, I sat by her side and for a while I triedTo make that girl my wifeShe gave me her best advice and she saidGo home and lead a quiet lifeWell, I been to the east and I been to…
A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall (1962) – Bob Dylan
The key works of Dylan’s canon have invited debate for decades but there is a consensus that ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall‘ represents the first full blossom of Dylan as poet. The song’s “lines of terror” aren’t the finger-pointing literal ballads…
Pretty Peggy-O (1962) – Bob Dylan
Pretty Peggy-O is the second song presented here from Bob Dylan’s debut record after the previous entry Baby, Let Me Follow You Down. For me Pretty Peggy-O was the surprise packet upon rehearing the record many years later. Understandably the…
Precious Memories (1986) – Bob Dylan
Precious Memories is the first song to appear here from Bob Dylan’s twenty – fourth studio album Knocked Out Loaded. Although I would consider this a lower-tier Dylan record, it still includes a few gems on it like today’s featured…
Precious Angel (1979) – Bob Dylan
Today’s song Precious Angel along with Gotta Serve Somebody and my previous entry I Believe in You are my favourite songs from the album which marked Dylan’s conversion to Christianity called Slow Train Coming. I remember in my second year…
Positively 4th Street (1965) – Bob Dylan
When I was at my brother’s place in Nowra on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia cerca 2005, I decided to go to the local tavern and blow the froff off a few. It was Karaoke night and…
Political World (1989) – Bob Dylan
“One night when everyone was asleep and I was sitting at the kitchen table, nothing on the hillside but a shiny bed of lights – all that changed. I wrote about twenty verses for a song called ‘Political World’ and…
Blood in My Eyes (1993) – Bob Dylan
Blood in My Eyes is the second song to appear here from Dylan’s 1993 traditional-folk record World Gone Wrong (WGW) after the previous entry – Delia. This album was a follow-up to his other acoustic guitar and harmonica record –…
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