This is a great sounding audience recording of a loose, fun show. The setlist is amazing.
~bobsboots.comPerhaps the best of the West-coast shows..[1992]
~Clinton Heylin (A Life In Stolen Moments)
I Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, “This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To New Jerusalem”
Well I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
I can tell you one thing
nobody can sing
the-blues-like-Blind-Willie-McTell
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“Blind Willie McTell” was the most interesting performance of the night.
It used to be like that:“No-one can sing the blues …
like Blind Willie McTell”but tonight it went like this:
“I’ll tell you one thing …
nobody can sing …
the-blues-like-Blind-Willie-McTell”The more astute amongst you will have noticed that the third line of this new version is quite long and doesn’t fit too well. Several times I thought the line wouldn’t fit but Bob managed to squeeze it in, just in time.
~Andy Jenkins (from the archives over @ boblinks.com)
Continue reading May 9: Bob Dylan Blind Willie McTell, Manchester 2002
My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn’t have to say she’s faithful
Yet she’s true, like ice, like fire
People carry roses
Make promises by the hours
My love she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her
Continue reading May 8: Bob Dylan Love Minus Zero/No Limit, London 1965 (Video)
This is a near perfect soundboard recording that is good enough quality to be an official release. The show is amazing and deserves a place in even the smallest Dylan collection.
~bobsboots.com
Continue reading May 7: Bob Dylan Free Trade Hall, Manchester 1965 (audio)
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Continue reading May 6: Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin’, Cardiff 2002 (video)