Here are the last six songs that Bob Dylan played a year ago, August 4, 2013, at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Ca.
Enjoy.
“Soon After Midnight”:
“She Belongs To Me”:
See below for list of songs on the next clip:
Songs on this clip:
Desolation Row
Blind Willie McTell
Simple Twist Of Fate
Summer Days
All Along The Watchtower
Ballad Of A Thin Man
[I just published 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.
Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
Of just buy the damn thing:
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One year ago, Bob Dylan and band performed “Blind WIllie McTell” at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on July 23, 2103.
Cool version.
[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.
Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
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Bob Dylan’s complete set from his Nov. 20, 2011 appearance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
Setlist
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
All Over Now, Baby Blue
Things Have Changed
Trying To Get To Heaven
Honest With Me
Tangled Up In Blue
Summer Days
Blind Willie McTell
Highway 61 Revisited
Desolation Row
Thunder On The Mountain
Ballad Of A Thin Man
All Along The Watchtower
Like A Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis, MO one year ago, April 23, 2013.
He’s in quite good voice for this show.
Enjoy.
“Things Have Changed”:
“High Water (For Charley Patton)”:
“Tangled Up In Blue”:
“Blind Willie McTell”:
“What Good Am I?”:
“Summer Days”:
“All ALong the Watchtower”:
“Ballad of a Thin Man”:
Things Have Changed
Love Sick
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Soon after Midnight
Early Roman Kings
Tangled Up in Blue
Pay in Blood
Visions of Johanna
Spirit on the Water
Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
Blind Willie McTell
What Good Am I?
Summer Days
Scarlet Town
All Along the Watchtower
Encore:
Ballad of a Thin Man
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Bob Dylan is a fan of the late bluesman, Blind Willie McTell. We’ve all heard the song Dylan wrote about McTell.
Today I’ve got the official version of McTell’s “Delia,” as sung by Dylan on World Gone Wrong, and a live version too from 1992.
“Delia” is an incredible song, and the way Dylan sings in on “World Gone Wrong” is heartbreaking.
I’ve also included a beautiful version of “Delia” performed by Jolie Holland, who also happens to be a huge Dylan fan. I executive-produced this video when I was Editor in Chief of MOG.
And I’ve got two versions of “Delia” by McTell himself.
Bob Dylan, “Delia,” off World Gone Wrong:
Bob Dylan, “Delia” Sydney, April 15th 1992:
Jolie Holland, “Delia,” live in her New York apartment:
Blind Willie McTell, “Delia” early version:
Blind Willie McTell, “Delia” 1949 version:
Finally, Bob Dylan’s own composition, “Blind Willie McTell”:
When the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were held two years ago, on Thursday, January 12, 2012, Martin Scorsese was the Music + Film honoree.
Appearing with his band to perform “Blind Willie McTell,” a song included in Scorsese’s PBS documentary series “The Blues,” was Bob Dylan.
Scorsese, of course, also put together the Dylan documentary, “No Direction Home.”
When Scorsese took the stage to accept his award he said:
“Such a great honor and an amazing performance by the great one, Bob Dylan. This award has a very special significance to me, so I’d like to begin with a special thank-you to Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the Hot Club of France. That was the music I used to hear when I was growing up in my apartment in New York, even before we had a TV, in the middle to late ’40s. Before anything for me, there was music and conversation, and for me they were both the same thing.”
Watch Olivia Harrison present the award and Scorsese accept it:
(If you’ve got Spotify, you might dig this Martin Scorsese jukebox plus clips from scenes in Scorsese films that include music.)
Other versions of “Blind Willie McTell”:
Accoustic version off The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3, from the Infidels sessions:
Electric version off The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3, from the Infidels sessions:
And a live electric version, Vienna, VA, August 24, 1997:
When I want to listen to a truly beautiful Bob Dylan performance, I listen to this studio recording of “Blind Willie McTell. The song is in part a tribute to the bluesman Blind Willie McTell, and recorded in 1983. Dylan has referred to it as a demo.
In an interview with Rolling Stone he said: “I started playing it live because I heard The Band doing it. Most likely it was a demo, probably showing the musicians how it should go. It was never developed fully, I never got around to completing it. There wouldn’t have been any other reason for leaving it off the record. It’s like taking a painting by Monet or Picasso – goin’ to his house and lookin’ at a half-finished painting and grabbing it and selling it to people who are ‘Picasso fans.'”
It was released in 1991 on the The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991.
Dylan’s voice sounds fantastic. This is a very moving song.
When I was Editor in Chief at MOG I executive produced these videos of Jolie Holland performing “Mexico City” and “Delia.”
“Mexico City” is one of Holland’s own compositions, and the studio version appears on her album, The Living And The Dead. “Delia” is a Blind Willie McTell song that Bob Dylan also covered. Jolie’s studio version appeared as the B-side of a single released in Europe. Both are favorites of mine.
Jolie Holland has the most soulful voice. She doesn’t sound like anyone but herself. There’s so much depth, so much emotion.
