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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Secret Garden (1995) – Bruce Springsteen
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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…
Romance in Durango (Live November 1975) – Bob Dylan
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…
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…
