The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is drawn from the final concert by The Band – The Last Waltz – held on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. Superlatives are scarcely suffice when describing The Band’s performance…
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1976) – The Band (The Last Waltz)
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (1964) – Bob Dylan
Here’s Bob at the apex of his protest music beginnings. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was one of the first songs I heard in my youth where I truly paid attention to the lyrics. It’s a song where every…
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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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Percy’s Song (1965) – Joan Baez (written by Bob Dylan)
This song I wrote is about a friend of mine..it’s called Percy’s Song and I took the tune from a song that a folk-singer by the name of Paul Clayton sings called ‘The Wind and the Rain‘ – Bob Dylan…
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word (1968) – Joan Baez
I first heard Joan Baez perform Bob Dylan’s song Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word in the 1967 documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England – Don’t Look Back. From 3:00 minutes in the second video you can hear…
Lily of the West (1973) – Bob Dylan
There are some good tracks to be found even on Dylan’s ‘throwaway records’. Lily of the West is one such song from his record Dylan (1973). Although the record received very poor reviews upon its release, it managed to reach No. 17 in the U.S. and…
Forever Young (1973) – Bob Dylan
This is one of Bob’s most endearing songs. Dylan is quoted as saying that he wrote Forever Young in Tucson, Arizona, “thinking about” one of his sons and “not wanting to be too sentimental“. I like all versions of this song…
Diamonds & Rust (1975) – Joan Baez
The introspective self-emboldening Diamonds and Rust is the first song to appear here from the phenomenal talent that is Joan Baez. It is so well-renowned because it tells of her turbulent relationship with fellow singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Diamonds and Rust…
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