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- Bob Dylan – the concert series. Palo Alto, California 14 October 2019
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 5: Using music to take us to a world of hope
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 8: The words are all mighty
- Dylan Live: the complete concert (and some rehearsals). Fort Collins 23 May 1976
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 4: combining musical traditions in unique ways
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 7: It hurts me too
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 3: From Times to Percy’s song
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue; A History in Performance, Part 1: 1965. Crying like a fire in the sun
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (1965) part 6 : Those old Baptist hymns
Category Archives: Greatest Hits Volume 2
Lay Lady Lay: Three Bob Dylan transformations of his song & a look at the meanings.
By Tony Attwood In returning to this song I didn’t really feel I wanted to change any of the original commentary, but I did want to add a couple of live recordings as they show the power of Dylan’s reinvention. … Continue reading
Bob Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm. 3 very different versions; but why play it so often?
By Tony Attwood (revised March 2013 and again June 2018) Between 1965 and 2009 Bob Dylan performed Maggie’s Farm 1051 times on stage – often as an opening song; an interesting outcome for a song that was a last minute … Continue reading