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Bob Dylan: Blackbushe Aerodrome, Camberley, England 15 July 1978 (audio)

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 With at least 200,000 people in attendance, Dylan closes his triumphant European tour at the Blackbushe Aerodrome, in Camberley, Surrey. Twenty five days after the last Earls Court show, Dylan brings a very different set back, performing 10 songs not performed at his previous show in England: “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” “Girl from the North Country,” “Is Your Love in Vain?,” a tentative “Where Are You Tonight’,” an acoustic “Gates of Eden,” “True Love Tends to Forget,” and a first encore of “Changing of the Guards” with Eric Clapton on guitar. Also performed are “Simple Twist of Fate” and “To Ramona,” both performed only one night at Earls Court. Surprisingly, though, Dylan omits “She’s Love Crazy,” “The Man in Me,” and ”I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” all performed regularly on the mainland European dates. Nevertheless, few in the massive crowd notice such omissions, as Dylan proves his pulling power is undiminished by his years away, attracting the largest crowd for a pop festival in Britain since the Isle of Wight nine years earlier.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Blackbushe Aerodrome
Camberley, England
15 July 1978

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Billy Cross (lead guitar)
  • Alan Pasqua (keyboards)
  • Steven Soles (rhythm guitar, backup vocals)
  • David Mansfield (violin & mandolin)
  • Steve Douglas (horns)
  • Jerry Scheff (bass)
  • Bobbye Hall (percussion)
  • Ian Wallace (drums)
  • Helena Springs, Jo Ann Harris, Carolyn Dennis (background vocals)

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Linda Ronstadt covers Bob Dylan & Neil Young

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Happy Birthday Linda Ronstadt!

Here are some covers of Bob Dylan & Neil Young songs.

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When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez
And it’s Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don’t pull you through
Don’t put on any airs
When you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you

Just like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan)

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Bob Dylan Quiz – Lyrics from 1986-89

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Many (too many?) 10 correct on the last quiz. That’s great, but I’ve decided to adjust the time limit (yet again) to 100s this time. Let’s see what happens..

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Lyrics are easily google-able, but there is a time limit & to google the lyrics is cheating, no fun, and no honor.

Please have fun & be honorable!

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Bob Dylan: Waitin’ For You, Cordoba, Spain – July 9, 2015 (video)

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Bob Dylan singing Waiting For You @ Cordoba, Spain – July 9, 2015

I never dreamed it could be
A someone made just for me.
When I’m letting her have her way,
I’m here to see what she has to say.
Aw, the poor girl always wins the day.
I’m stayin’ ahead of the game,
And she’s a-doin’ the same,
And the whiskey flyin’ into my head.
The fiddler’s arm has gone dead,
And talk is beginning to spread

Wonderful performance.

35th Guitar Festival
Theatre Axerquia
Cordoba, Spain
July 9, 2015

  • Bob Dylan – vocal & piano
  • Tony Garnier – bass
  • George Recile – drums
  • Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar, maracas
  • Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
  • Donnie Herron – banjo, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel

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Bob Dylan: The roots of Sweet Amarillo

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Bob Dylan In 'Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid'

Bob Dylan: The roots of Sweet Amarillo

“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.

Read more here: The Roots of Wagon Wheel aka Rock Me Mama

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.

Peco's Blues (BACK)

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.

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