Mark Knopfler toured with Bob Dylan on:
There are loads of video clips on youtube from these concerts, I’ve collected 5.
Forum di Assago
Assago
Milan, Italy
14 November 2011
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“This song was written by a man who changed the face of popular music forever back in the 60s, and I want you all to sing it with us. The words are gonna be up there on the screen…a song written by Mr. Bob Dylan!”
– Don Henley (intro)
Some weeks ago we had a post where Bob Dylan sang one of Don Henley’s songs, today we do it the other way around…
Don Henley – The Times They Are A Changin’ (live, 1993):
– Hallgeir
“Country music has a lot to learn from Bob Dylan” – Ketch Secor (to Rolling Stone Magazine)
So, Old Crow Medicine Show has done it again, taken an old Dylan tune off a bootleg and finished it. In 2003, OCMS completed an old song that Bob Dylan had made a “sketch” of 30 years earlier, with the result being “Wagon Wheel.” Darius Rucker also did his take on the song and had a huge hit.
The “new” song, Amarillo, the melody and some of the lyrics comes from a demo recorded by Bob Dylan during the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid sessions.It is track 12 on the famous bootleg Peco’s Blues, the Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid Sessions.
Bob Dylan – Sweet Amarillo (1973):
Let us also listen to Old Crow Medicine Show’s version:
The melody has not changed much, but they have added verses and kept the chorus. Both songs are country waltzes. Old Crow medicine show works in the folk tradition that Dylan is definitely a part of, getting parts of melodies and lyrics and adding your own verses.
Donna Terry Weiss and Brenda Patterson have recorded a song with the same name, and it is clearly inspired by Dylan’s song.
When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock, everybody referred to us as the band. He called us the band, our friends called us the band, our neighbors called us the band.
~Robbie Robertson (from “The Last Waltz”)
Eric Clapton inducts the Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994:
The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Last Waltz):
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