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…
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It Makes No Difference (1975) – The Band
There are no more superlatives left to describe the Band’s performance in their last concert The Last Waltz. You know when you are beholden to the best art when your only feeble reaction is – ‘How on God’s earth did…
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I’m Your Teenage Prayer (1967) – Bob Dylan
We are having a Tuesday Basement Tapes festival with this and I’m Not There being released here because they follow in alphabetical order in the Music Library Project. What a marvellous coincidence!I’m Your Teenage Prayer is a band and singer…
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Helpless – Neil Young (1970) – (feat. The Band and Joni Mitchell)
I first heard this song in Martin Scorsese’s film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band – The Last Waltz on American Thanksgiving Day 1976 at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. Many of the songs which feature in that concert will…
5/4 – 11/4/21 incl. Fructose, The Band & Dostoevsky
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. Peter Attia – The Drive Podcast – #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity? Audio podcast at Peter…
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Live 1966 and the Last Waltz) – Bob Dylan
It won’t come as much of a surprise that I adore all the versions of this old folk number sung by Bob. I suppose if I had to choose a favourite it would be the Live 1966: The “Royal Albert…
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