Man thinks ’cause he rules the earth he can do with it as he please
And if things don’t change soon, he will
Oh, man has invented his doom
First step was touching the moonNow, there’s a woman on my block
She just sit there as the night grows still
She say who gonna take away his license to kill?
Continue reading June 6: Bob Dylan: License To Kill, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1984 (video)
The first night’s semi-acoustic set features two requests from the eighth row. The first is “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” shouted out as Dylan is about to start “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.” Dylan surprisingly responds, “It sure is. Awfully long,” and proceeds to unearth a lovely, subdued version. Two songs later, the same misfit asks for “John Brown,” and Dylan duly obliges with his most mannered rendition.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
Continue reading June 5: Bob Dylan @ Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1990 (video)
I once held her in my arms
She said she would always stay
But I was cruel
I treated her like a fool
I threw it all away
This is a minor song in Dylan´s canon, nevertheless a lovely piece of art. It´s highly interesting to listen to different live versions from different eras… here´s a taste.
Continue reading Bob Dylan: 7 Wonderful Live versions of “I Threw it All Away”
“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth”
All Along The Watchtower was born @ Columbia Studio A – Nashville, Tennessee, November 6, 1967.
Here’s a tribute to this great song – 12 different live versions from 12 different years.
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“No reason to get excited,” the thief, he kindly spoke
“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, tooOutside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
“To anyone who thinks Bob Dylan can’t sing……………..listen to ‘Corrina Corrina’…….
………….and PS-you’re a dickhead.”
– Kasey Chambers
Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976) is an Australian country singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of singer and musician Bill Chambers, and the sister of musician and producer Nash Chambers.
Chambers was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia. She has an older brother, Nash Chambers. She grew up on the Nullarbor Plain and the tiny fishing village in Beachport, South Australia. Her family owned the local Fish and Chip shop for a time and were playing and touring with her family band, “The Dead Ringer Band” which included her father Billy Chambers a Golden Guitar Award songwriter and Nash Chambers, now a well known music producer and performer. “The Dead Ringer Band” continued to tour locally and interstate gaining support and popularity along the way. Continue reading June 4: Kasey Chambers sings Bob Dylan – Happy 40th Birthday Kasey!