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.
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
Caetano Veloso: Jokerman
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
Jim James and Calexico: Goin’ to Acapulco
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.
Rosanne Cash: Girl from the North Country
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