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Here are two more great versions of “Stay With Me”. Great audio on both and the November 29 versions is also a fine video.
There has been many great versions of this song on this last leg of the 2014 tour.
Wonderful.
New York, New York
Beacon Theatre
November 28, 2014
Continue reading Bob Dylan: 2 Great live versions of “Stay With Me”
A song that took me ten years to live and two years to write
~Bob DylanSo that the story took place in the present and the past at the same time. When you look at a painting, you can see any part of it, or you see it altogether. I wanted that song to be like a painting.
~Bob DylanJoni Mitchell had an album out called Blue. And it affected me, I couldn’t get it out of my head. And it just stayed in my head and when I wrote that song I wondered, what’s that mean? And then I figured that it was just there, and I guess that’s what happened, y’know.
~Bob Dylan (to Craig McGregor, March 1978)
This masterpiece in number 3 on my list of Dylans 200 best songs. Listening to it almost never fails to put me in a state of flow.. time stops.. there is nothing except this beautiful piece of art occupying my attention.. best form of mindful meditation if you ask me.
It is the best song from one of his best albums: “Blood On The Tracks” (1975):
We allow our past to exist. Our credibility is based on our past. But deep in our soul we have no past. I don’t think we have a past anymore than we have a name. You can say we have a past if we have a future. Do we have a future? No. So how can our past exist if the future doesn’t exist?
~Bob Dylan (to Jonathan Cott, Dec 1977)But we’re only dealing with the past in terms of being able to be healed by it. We can communicate only because we both agree that this is a glass and this is a bowl and that’s a candle and there’s a window here and there are lights out in the city. Now I might not agree with that. Turn this glass around and it’s something else. Now I’m hiding it in a napkin. Watch it now. Now you don’t even know it’s there. It’s the past… I don’t even deal with it. I don’t think seriously about the past, the present or the future. I’ve spent enough time thinking about these things and have gotten nowhere.
~Bob Dylan (to Jonathan Cott, Dec 1977)
Continue reading Bob Dylan’s best songs – Tangled Up In Blue
God knows you ain’t pretty
God knows it’s true
God knows there ain’t anybody
Ever gonna take the place of you
Eisenhower Hall Theatre
Military Academy
West Point, New York
15 October 1994
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Dylan returns to Sony Studios in New York, with Don Was producing, to cut three songs for a possible Elvis Presley tribute CD. The versions of “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” & “Money Honey” are fairly nondescript. However the final vocal take of “Anyway You Want Me (Is How I Will Be)” is really quite spectacular, Dylan delivering one of his most convincing vocals in years.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day: 1941-1995)
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A real gem this one…
Sony Music Studios
New York City, New York
30 September 1994
Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal) backed by unidentified musicians.
All audio ar grooveshark embed’s.. they might not work for Ipad’s or iphone. I’ve included a link below that will take you to an HTML5 version of the best song among these 3: “Anyway You Want Me”.
HTML5 / pad’s/ mobile -> Try this link
Continue reading September 30: Bob Dylan recorded “Anyway You Want Me” @ Sony Music Studios in 1994
On the 3th recording session for Blood On The Tracks on September 18th, Dylan only tried 2 takes on Buckets of Rain. The 4th recording session (on September 19, 1974) was a way more important story….
Here are some quotes, facts & music….
If any of Dylan’s record albums deserve to be singled out as a “masterpiece” (and I’ve avoided this because how can one leave out ‘Blonde On Blonde’? ‘Highway 61 Revisited’? ‘Hard Rain’?), it is the one that most successfully combines conscious, deliberate creation (composition) with spontaneous expression (performance) – 1974’s ‘Blood On The Tracks’
~Paul Williams (Performing Artist 74-86)..Dylan.. succeeded in producing an album that stoked up his genius quotient nearly ten years after he was thought to have left it by the roadside. And he had done it by reinventing his whole approach to language. Gone were the surrealistic turns of phrase on Blonde On Blonde, gone was the ‘wild mercury sound’ surrounding those mystical words. In their place was a uniformity of mood, a coherence of sound, and an unmistakable maturity to the voice…. He had never sung better.
~Clinton Heylin (Behind The Shades)
Albums involved:
| ALBUM | Release date | CODE |
| Blood On The Tracks | 1975-01-17 | BOTT |
| Biograph | 1985-11-07 | BIO |
| The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 |
1991-03-26 | TBS1-3 |
| Blood On The Tracks – Test pressing | Nov 74 | BOTT-TP |
| Jerry Maguire – Soundtrack | 1996-12-10 | JMS |
