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Margo and the boys in customary low-key mode for a song from Dylan’s 2020 collection Rough and Rowdy Ways.
A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
Margo and the boys in customary low-key mode for a song from Dylan’s 2020 collection Rough and Rowdy Ways.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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According to this website https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famous-brazilian-singers/ Caetano Veloso is the sixth-most famous Brazilian singer of all time. In this performance from 1992, he gets his lungs round Dylan’s song from the … Continue readingCaetano Veloso: Jokerman
Originating from the Basement Tapes, this haunting version appears on I’m Not There, the 2007 biopic of his Bobness. And a strange old clip it is.
Rolling Stone said: ‘Dylan’s good friend Johnny Cash famously duetted with him on this folk ballad for Nashville Skyline in 1969. Cash also included the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan number on a list of “essential” country … Continue readingRosanne Cash: Girl from the North Country