This is not a “best from 1962” list, just 5 Great songs Bob Dylan recorded in 1962.
Studio A
Columbia Recording Studios
New York City, New York
November 1962
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan sessions, produced by John Hammond.
Released on single, 14 December 1962
I got mixed up confusion
Man, it’s a-killin’ me
Well, there’s too many people
And they’re all too hard to please
This is not a “best from 1981” list, just 5 Great songs Bob Dylan recorded in 1981.
How to comment on this extraordinary piece of writing? Recorded at the ‘Shot of Love’ sessions of April-May 1980, Angelina is unlike anything else Bob Dylan has ever written – part Cocteau film, part Braque painting, totally surreal, it defies logic and heads off for the deepest, darkest parts of poetic mystery. Though Dylan has never commented about the song in public, chances are that he’d confess that it was as much mystery to him as to anyone else.
~John Bauldie (TBS1-3 booklet)
Rundown Studios
Santa Monica, California
26 March 1981
1st Shot Of Love recording session. Produced by Jimmy Iovine.
Released on THE BOOTLEG SERIES (RARE & UNRELEASED) 1961-1991, 26 March 1991.
Well, it’s always been my nature
To take chances
My right hand drawing back
While my left hand advances
There is a house down in New Orleans they call the rising sun
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I’m one.My mother was a tailor, she sowed these new blue jeans
My sweetheart was a gambler, Lord, down in New Orleans.
Continue reading April 12: Bob Dylan House Of The Risin’ Sun, Newcastle, England 2007
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next mealHow does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
This is not a “best from 1971” list, just 5 Great songs Bob Dylan recorded in 1971.
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Columbia Studio B
New York City, New York
4 November 1971
Produced by Bob Dylan
Released on single, 12 November 1971
I woke up this mornin’
There were tears in my bed
They killed a man I really loved
Shot him through the head
Lord, Lord
They cut George Jackson down
Lord, Lord
They laid him in the ground