They say ev’rything can be replaced
Yet ev’ry distance is not near
So I remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Continue reading March 31: Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello I Shall Be Released, London, 1995
Happy birthday Norah Jones!
Wikipedia:
Born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979
Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones. She is also Anoushka Shankar’s half-sister.
In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away with Me, a fusion of jazz, pop, and country music, which was certified diamond album, selling over 26 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including theAlbum of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Her subsequent studio albums, Feels Like Home, released in 2004, Not Too Late, released in 2007, the same year she made her film debut in My Blueberry Nights, and her 2009 release The Fall all gained Platinum status, selling over a million copies and were generally well received by critics. Jones’ fifth studio album, Little Broken Hearts, was released on April 27, 2012.
Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard magazine’s artists of the 2000–2009 decade chart. Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Billboard named her the top jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade.
We really like Norah Jones, we especially like it when she does Country music and of course when she sing the songs of our hero Bob Dylan. We have trawled the web to find some of her great cover versions.
Lets start with a duet, here she sings I Shall Be Released with the man himself, Bob Dylan:
Continue reading Norah Jones covers Bob Dylan – Happy Birthday Norah Jones
If you see her, say hello
She might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring
Is living there I hear
Continue reading March 30: Bob Dylan If You See Her, Say Hello Brixton Academy, London 1995
BOB DYLAN THE ACADEMY BRIXTON LONDON ENGLAND MARCH 30, 1995 Masters Series 157
“No time to post anything detailed, but never have I been to a Bob Dylan concert where there was more unanimity about the quality of the performance among those who attend a serious number of Dylan concerts in an average year. Even the most cynical who can always find fault were mesmerized, some astounded. You cannot ask for more than Bob Dylan put into that Thursday performance in Brixton.”
– Craig (via ExpectingRain)
Highlights:
Every Grain of Sand, Love Minus Zero/No Limit and the duet with Elvis Costello on I Shall be released.
Personell:
Setlist:
Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
If You See Her, Say Hello
All Along The Watchtower
Jokerman
Every Grain Of Sand
Positively 4th Street
Mr. Tambourine Man
Masters Of War
Love Minus Zero/No Limit Continue reading March 30: Bob Dylan live at Brixton 1995 – Classic concert
I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh, and just like the river I’ve been running ever sinceIt’s been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gon’ come, oh yes it will
Apollo Theater
New York City, New York
28 March 2004
Continue reading March 28: Bob Dylan A Change Is Gonna Come, NY, 2004