Just another post connecting Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton. We are still celebrating Clapton’s 70th Birthday – salute!
Shangri-La Studios
Malibu, California
March – April 1976
Eric Clapton (guitar & vocal)
Bob Dylan (guitar & shared vocal)
Robbie Robertson (guitar)
You speak to me
In sign language
As I’m eating a sandwich
In a small café
At a quarter to three
But I can’t respond
To your sign language
You’re taking advantage
Bringing me down
Can’t you make any sound?
’Twas there by the bakery
Surrounded by fakery
Tell her my story
Still I’m still there
Does she know I still care?
The air is getting hotter
There’s a rumbling in the skies
I’ve been wading through the high muddy water
With the heat rising in my eyes
Every day your memory grows dimmer
It doesn’t haunt me like it did before
I’ve been walking through the middle of nowhere
Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
A very strong song from the brilliant album “Time Out Of Mind” (1997).
Tryin’ To Get To Heaven has been performed 156 times live, top years were 2010 & 2011 with 19 performances each.
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Guildhall Portsmouth, England 25 September 2000
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Charlie Sexton (guitar)
Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’
I was layin’ in bed
Wond’rin’ if she’d changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama’s homemade dress
Papa’s bankbook wasn’t big enough
And I was standin’ on the side of the road
Rain fallin’ on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue
Newcastle Arena
Newcastle, England
20 June 1998
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ’n’ how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Target Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
23 October 1998
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar)
