Having spent the last few posts on death, death in song, metaphorical death, philosophical death, personal death, yesterday’s shocking news of a mass shooting of innocent people at a concert in Las Vegas and the shock death of one of my musical heroes, Tom Petty, makes musing about poetic death pale into insignificance when real […]
Originally appearing on Bob Dylan’s second solo album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan released in 1963, he re-recorded the track as a duet with Johnny Cash and opened his 1969 album Nashville Skyline with the song. Although it starts off so well, the recorded version sounds like they were relying heavily on their legend to perfom the […]
If you were wondering why Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, you may want to pick any lyric he wrote in a 14 year period between 1962 and 1976 – that’s from his self-titled debut to Desire. I’m sure there’s worthy lyrics beyond this period too but here the riches are abundant. In 1966 he […]
It’s wonderful to hear that Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for literature and to celebrate this political week on the blog, here’s one of his earlier tunes, Masters Of War from his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The album made it to No.22 in the US chart in 1963 and No.1 in the UK in […]
Tears Of Rage was originally recorded in 1967 and was written by Bob Dylan and Richard Manuel, it wasn’t released under Dylan’s name till The Basement Tapes in 1975. The Band opened their debut album, Music From The Big Pink with the song in 1968. It has been covered by many artists including Gene Clark, […]
Jeff Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert will oversee the release of unreleased Jeff Buckley recordings on a new album called, You And I expected in March. The album consists of mostly covers recorded in 1993 in New York. A video has appeared for a cover of The Smiths’ I Know It’s Over and an audio version of […]