After three listens to Bob's New Christmas cd i don't know what to say. I have been anticipating/dreading this since i first heard of it.....& nothing has been settled yet. Its a minor entry in his canon, to be sure. Somewhere to the left or right of, but definitely close by, Self Portrait. His Royal Bobness has built a career around confounding his audience & in that respect this is...
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NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack, Vol. 2, featuring a never-before-heard song from Bob Dylan called “California”, Norah Jones song called “That’s What I Said”, Joss Stone song called “Every Time I Turn Around”, and Sheryl Crow song called “Murder In My Heart”. The soundtrack will be released on November 3rd. Here's the official album cover and track listing for it. 1. Bob Dyla
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Bob Dylan is as much a fan of music as anyone here on the MOG. Throughout his career he has taken joy from singing the songs of others. & the last couple of decades have seen him notching it up some & covering all kinds of songs from artists in every genre. (Kindly, we won't mention his Christmas cd). A list of songs or song fragments that Bob & The Band played with at Big Pink would fill sever...
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A well respected man has declared Waltz Wednesday. While another good spirit asserts Dylan's too easy, everybody knows he's great. And so, says I, why not? Here is the admitedly Great Bob Dylan waltzing his way into your wednesday
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..........A track from Dylan's much maligned "Born Again" era. Yes, much maligned and unfairly so. Dylan & his gospel troupe put on some exciting incendiary(?) shows with some incredible music. This track.."I Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody" is a good case in point. A moving testament to the power of faith, the song slowly transforms from a quiet contemplative rumination to a fire & brim...
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I just bought a vinyl this week, and it contained an insert that said "Long Live Physical Media!" -- which got me thinking. As a way to incorporate physical media into this other-wise mp3/video-laden website, I thought I'd occasionally write about some old vinyls of mine which have cool characteristics that people who bought the album on itunes may not know.This week's selection is Bob Dylan's...
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Two Bob Dylan poems made their way into the September 22nd issue of the New Yorker. The poems, titled #17 and #21, are both from the book Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript, a collection of 23 Bob Dylan poems synched to photos taken by Barry Feinstein. Feinstein shot Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' cover, about the same time in the '60s that Dylan penned the two poems you can r...
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A Ridiculously Large Post Of Almost All Of Bob Dylan's Non-LP Tracks (1962-2005)206 Songs, 15-1/2 Hours Of Rare Bob (No Bootlegs)Scattered Bob Dylan tracks from singles, import albums, various artist LPs, promos, radio concerts, soundtracks, recalled releases... you name it (up to around 2005). There are still a few missing (for you obsessive types - #'s 711, 713, 727, 751, 801, 803-804, 846-...
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Two New Jersey cops were given a crash corse on 20th century music history when they reported on a suspicious looking man in Long Branch. After detaining Bob Dylan for lack of proper ID, the 68-year-old legend had employees at the hotel he was staying at vouch for him, reports Sky News."The policewoman was very young and did not recognise Dylan - there was another officer with her and even he d...
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Bob Dylan Live: Prospect Park BrooklynListening to Dylan live today can be equated to listening to Dylan in the early 60s via transistor radio in a cornfield in Nebraska. His voice live is almost unrecognizable, like it's been dragged through tobacco fields, lugged through tired deserts of American heartland, tortured for years in circulating around smokey bars with no windows, washed out to se...
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'Tell Tale Signs' is a three-disc album that will include rarities and b-sides from the last twenty years. If you're wondering what a 10 year old rarity from Mr. Dylan sounds like, he's offering a sample called 'Dreamin' Of You' over at his official website as a teaser."Tell Tale Signs, out on October 6, is comprised of unreleased studio recordings, demos, rare songs from soundtracks and some l...
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My good friend dermahrk said (in another thread)..."Actually, Dylan gave up politics, what, 35 years ago and hasn't written a "protest" song for a long, long time." I think it would be closer to the truth to say that Dylan backed off the simplistic blacknwhite nature of his earlier protest songs because they're obvious traps. "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is a pounding, powerful song. Pointi...
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Left handed: Right handed:[10 bucks says Booker T & The MGs never thought they'd be playing a Dylan song like this.]
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On September 12, 1974 **Bob Dylan** walked into the studio and recorded one of the most remarkable song of his (or anyone else's) career, **If You See Her Say Hello**. A song of stark, naked emotional loss, a haunted yowl of regret as Dylan examines the still oozing scars of a shattered relationship. The song startles the listener as the narrator by turn rages, whimpers, wails an belies all ...
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Not much is certain about the authorship of this, most of us believe its a mostly ad-libbed one-off Dylan thing that sorta grew to a point that building a song around it (with an eye towards "real" lyrics later?) seemed like a good idea.This was recorded during the (in)famous **Bromberg Sessions**.
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