Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan

[filkertom]

On this date in 1941.

Let's have an all-Dylan playlist today. I'll start it off with "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

(And, at some point today, our mythical radio station will play "Traditional Folksinger's Lament" by Eric Bogle.)

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Oh, I got some nominees...

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"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again", cover by the Grateful Dead, Buckeye Lake 1988, with Bruce Hornsby sitting in on freakin' *accordion*.

Damn, that was a show.

To get Bob himself in the mix... "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" as a duet with Jerry Garcia, Akron Rubber Bowl, 1986. Unfortunately, archive.org doesn't have the opening to this show, which was Dylan backed up by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. If you can imagine an electric version of "Blowin' in the Wind" with Dylan and Petty singing duet... I saw it and I couldn't completely believe it.

And the single weirdest concert moment I ever had: Dylan opening his acoustic set at Savage Hall in Toledo, 1990, with "I'm In The Mood For Love"... or as he performed it that night, "Ah in da Moo fah Wub". As much as it pains me to so admit, that was the worst concert I ever saw. He just wanted to get back to the party on Put-in-Bay, and it showed. But he more than made up for it when he double-billed with Phil Lesh at the Schott in '00. The whole place just *thundered* when he cracked open "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35".