Cowboy Junkies: I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
Margo and the boys in customary low-key mode for a song from Dylan’s 2020 collection Rough and Rowdy Ways.
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Rod Stewart: Sweetheart Like You
This first appeared on Dylan’s Infidels album in 1983 and was covered by the Rodster 12 years later on A Spanner in the Works.
Strawbs: Part of the Union
With 90 per cent of the country on strike, this seemed an apposite choice. It was written by group members Richard Hudson and John Ford and featured on their January … Continue readingStrawbs: Part of the Union
Night of the hurricane
ON the evening of October 15, 1987, I was working on the Daily Mail off Fleet Street when I went with a colleague for a break-time drink at a nearby pub named … Continue readingNight of the hurricane
Grateful Dead: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Lovely, laid-back, live performance of the Dylan classic. And here’s Bryan Ferry’s take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxeurlq7m2k
The Heptones: I Shall Be Released
Something a bit jollier today; a 1969 reggae rendition of the Dylan song which first appeared on the Band’s Music From Big Pink the previous year.
A tribute to Tom Verlaine
THIS is writer James Rogers’s reaction to the death on Saturday of Tom Verlaine. The darkness has doubled, lightning has struck itself – Tom Verlaine has passed on. The Cadillac … Continue readingA tribute to Tom Verlaine
Television: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
With tragic timing, I scheduled this clip for today unaware that Tom Verlaine had died on Saturday, aged 73. RIP TV, a true guitar genius. Another star taken early from … Continue readingTelevision: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Chan Romero: Hippy Hippy Shake
This was written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959, when he was 17. I think it’s brilliant but all I can find out about it is that it got to No … Continue readingChan Romero: Hippy Hippy Shake
The year with no summer
IT HAS been a pretty cold winter so far in Lancashire, with night temperatures regularly down to about minus 8 deg C and staying at freezing point during the day. … Continue readingThe year with no summer