On November 20, 1961, Bob Dylan recorded “House of the Rising Sun” at Columbia Studio A in New York.
The recording appeared on his debut album, Bob Dylan.
Below are two versions by Dylan, plus versions of the old blues song by Nina Simone, Frijid Pink, Texas Alexander (possibly the earliest recorded version), The Supremes, Thin Lizzy, The Animals, Dave Van Ronk and others.
Enjoy!
Bob Dylan:
The Animals:
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Joan Baez:
The Supremes:
The White Stripes:
Nina Simone:
Josh White:
Roy Acuff:
Texas Alexander:
Dave Van Ronk:
Thin Lizzy:
The Beatles:
Libby Holman:
Frijid Pink:
Sinead O’Connor
Bob Dylan:
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St. Vincent performed two songs, “Digital Witness” and “Birth In Reverse,” on SNL last night.
Check them out.
“DIgital Witness”:
“Birth In Reverse”:
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Sharon Van Etten, who I’ve posting about previously, will have her new album, Are We There Yet?, released on May 27, 2014.
Meanwhile you can listen to the whole album over at iTunes Radio.
And check out here videos for two songs off the album:
“Every Time The Sun Comes Up”:
“Taking Chances”:
And stream this one right here:
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“Your Love Is Killing Me”:
Dylan working on a song at the North British Hotel.
Forty-eight years ago, Bob Dylan arrived in Glasgow, Scotland on May 18, 1966f. He was booked to play a show the next night, on May 19, at the Odeon Theater in Glasgow.
On either May 18 or 19, in his hotel room at what was then called the North British Hotel, he worked on songs with Robbie Robertson.
Robbie Robertson and Dylan work on a song that was apparently never completed.
Below is some footage from “Eat the Document” plus extended audio of two of the songs.
I can’t find anything online from the Odeon show, put on May 20 Dylan and band performed at the ABC Theater in Edinburgh and I’ve got three songs from that show.
Good stuff.
“What Kind of Friend Is This?”
“On A Rainy Afternoon/ I Can’t Leave Her Behind”:
Brief scene with Dylan and fans in Glasgow, 1966:
Dylan and The Hawks, ABC Theater, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 20, 1966.
“One Too Many Mornings”:
“Ballad of a Thin Man”:
“Like a Rolling Stone”:
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In 1971, searching the record store bins, I came across a Bob Dylan bootleg album that claimed to be recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1966.
I put that album on and my mind was blown.
What I heard was the moment when rock ‘n’ roll stares down all the lies, and speaks truth.
Bob Dylan stood on the stage in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester on May 17, 1966. He’d just played what already was the greatest live rock ‘n’ roll. A devastating set, the songs turned into huge bonfires, Robbie Robertson’s out-of-control guitar riffs shooting out of the flames.
But that moment.
A fan shouts out “Judas,” calling Dylan out for betraying all his folk music fans.
What that must have felt like if you were Bob Dylan, standing on that stage, putting everything on the line.
Dylan had already put up with abuse in the U.S., Australia and Europe. But this!
Imagine. Some idiot has the audacity to call Bob Dylan ‘Judas’!
But of course this was so much more. This was a scene that has been played out again and again through history. The old guard, the conservatives, the right wing Tea Party blind men who face a past that never existed and insist that we turn around and retreat back into it.
There’s laughter in the hall. But this is no laughing matter.
“I don’t believe you” Dylan says.
And the majestic sound that kicks off a song like no other, “Like A Rolling Stone,” begins and over it Dylan insists:
“You’re a liar!”
And then he sings his greatest song, delivering the best version of his career, a song that rips away the bullshit we put up with day after day. That insists we walk forward into the unknown no matter the danger.
The music, the words, the voice.
Dylan won’t settle for the world as it is. All the phonies.
Listen below and hear the song as it sounded that night.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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In June new expanded versions of the first three Led Zeppelin albums will be released.
To get us excited, a few of the alternate takes and live versions that will be on the albums have been made available.
Here’s a version of “Whole Lotta Love” quite different from what made it onto the album
Here are live versions of “Good Times, Bad Times” and “Communication Breakdown” recorded live in Paris in 1969.
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When you pair the amazing Van Morrison with a Bob Dylan song you usually get magic, and such is the case with this live recording of “Just Like a Woman.”
It’s from the late show of a two set performance at the now defunct Lion’s Share club in San Anselmo, CA, August 8, 1971.
Morrison played the small club –it was really a hole in the wall, but a great hole int he wall — 13 times in the early ’70s. I caught one of those shows and it was incredible.
But then I saw a lot of Van Morrison shows. I saw him at Winterland and at the Inn of the Beginning in Cotati and at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and at the Old Waldorf, also in San Francisco.
He’s one of a kind, every show was different, every show was pretty damn excellent.
Anyway, enjoy Van Morrison covering Dylan for over seven minutes.
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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On May 19, 2014 Roy Orbison’s Mystery Girl will be reissued with a bunch of additional tracks.
Helping Orbison out on the album were U2’s Bono and Edge, George Harrison, Brian Eno, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett and Mike Campbell.
In addition to the tracks on the original album, there are nine additional recordings — all demos except for the previously unreleased “The Way Is Love.”
Here’s the demo Orbison cut for Elvis Costello’s brilliant “The Comedians.”
Thanks USA Today!
[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
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