Category: A’s Track of the Day

Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia, 15 years ago, on the ‘Freewheeling Yo La Tengo’ tour when audience questions helped create the set list for the night. The music starts at 3.56.

The Feats’ anthem, performed live in 1977. I suppose the romper suit was the only thing big enough to accommodate Lowell George.

And finally. The work of the greatest songwriter in rock history, played and sung by its finest performer. This set at the 1967 Monterey pop festival was Jimi’s breakthrough in … Continue readingJimi Hendrix: Like a Rolling Stone

This is the next to the last of our Dylan covers series. Can you guess what’s coming tomorrow?

Recommended by Andy Marshall, Joan’s version of Dylan’s song from the 1989 album Oh Mercy.

It takes some nerve to cover a song from Blood on the Tracks, but Colvin does it with aplomb in this live version from 2015. The other guitarist is Steuart … Continue readingShawn Colvin: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

From her 1995 album Wrecking Ball, Emmylou’s stellar version of the song premiered on Dylan’s LP Shot of Love, released in 1981.

Performed live in Glace Bay Nova Scotia in 2007, the Stripes’ percussive version of Dylan’s classic from the Desire album of almost 30 years earlier. Here’s a somewhat gentler version … Continue readingThe White Stripes: One More Cup of Coffee

Bonnie’s version appeared on her 2012 album Slipstream, and very good it is too. The original was on Dylan’s Time out of Mind, released in 1997.

Originally on Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves, this fine version by Gregg Allman appeared on his eighth and last solo album Southern Blood in 2017. He died that same year.