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.)

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Can we have cover versions? If so, I'm for "All Along the Watchtower" (by Jimi, of course) with a live version of "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" by Tom Petty cued up for sometime later.

[razzle.livejournal.com]

"Tangled Up in Blue" and "Shelter From the Storm" (for lo, I cannot choose only one).

[ericcoleman]

All I have are Highway 61, Blood On The Tracks and Blonde On Blonde ... but I will listen to them today,

I'll probably throw in a bit of Dylan Hears A Who as well

[jss]

I suppose "No, No, a Thousand Times No" doesn't count?

[sazettel.livejournal.com]

You're Gonna Make me Lonesome When You Go, and Maria Muldaur's cover of You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Although, I've got to admit, even by Dylan standards the line "Ghengis Khan he could not keep all his men supplied with sheep," in the middle of a song about one's beloved coming home makes one go, Bobby WHAT were you TAKING?

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

I'll throw on "Nettie Moore" off the new record.

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

There are actually three sets of lyrics (that I can think of offhand) to that song; all of them were pretty much improvised, or anyway, they were supposed to sound like they were.

[mdlbear]

I'll toss in my favorites, "Desolation Row" and "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts". (And then there's always my own Dylan/Bogle mashup.)

[sazettel.livejournal.com]

It's my understanding that it was not unusual for the band to spend most of a session standing around waiting for Dylan to finish making up the song.

Even so, that's a weird placeholder of a lyric.

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

I suppose I must be the plebian one to vote for Subterranean Homesick Blues.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

"Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" and "Masters of War"

[adamselzer.livejournal.com]

There's a fun bootleg from the session in which the lyrics of that song are all about telling someone that they have to stay home to feed the cat. My favorite line from that version is "I don't care if your name is Michael, you're gonna need some boards." All the lyrics are collected here (http://homepage.mac.com/danielmartin/Dylan/html/songs/Y/YouAintGoinNowhere.html).

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

Since someone already offered "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," I'll opt for "Sara." Bob at his most vulnerable and transparent.

And then, just to toss in a curveball, "Wiggle Wiggle!"

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Nope, I was going to go with that one, too.

Since you beat me to it, I'll request Black Diamond Bay. Haven't filked it yet, but I expect I will before I die.

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at the least and I don't see Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 so I'll suggest that

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

he said in the intro that it would be played - "Traditional Folksinger's Lament" by Eric Bogle

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

"Mama's in the kitchen
Cookin' up some medicine.
I'm in the basement
Thinkin' 'bout the government."

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

"Don't think twice, it's all right", but not with dylan performing.

[kshandra]

Please tell me you've heard a live Dave Matthews Band version of "Watchtower." Because OMG, it's the most exquisitely sinister take on the song I've ever heard.

While we're on the subject of covers, let's get really weird and throw Falco's cover of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" in the mix. (Yes, that Falco. It was the last track on Falco 3, the album that broke him Stateside.)

[kshandra]

Preferably the version off Dylan and the Dead.

[kshandra]

Eric Clapton? Or Susan Tedeschi?

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

probably Clapton. And I thought of another "the Times they are a'changing"

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

"Desolation Row," as covered by blues-man Chris Smither, with backup by Bonnie Raitt.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't, but that's because I haven't really gone out and gotten DMB live. I bet it sounds great, though.

The Falco sounds wild. I'll have to go look for it, too. Thanks!

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Neil Young's version of Watchtower at the Dylan 50th party. WAILED on that Les Paul.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

And while we're at it, throw in Manfred Mann's The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo).

Oh, I got some nominees...

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

"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".