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The Best Bootlegs: Tom Waits Tales From The Riverside (no audio, sorry)

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The Best Bootlegs: Tom Waits  Tales From The Riverside

A compilation of various tracks from various sources and I don’t think it was ever released commercially. But, quite a few of the songs has been released on Orphans and that’s why I’m inclined to call it a playlist rather than a bootleg. Anyway, I think it is a good compilation and one of the most played Tom Waits playlists in my home.

The track listing is taken right from the original artwork scans from the people at tomwaitsuper.blogspot.com (now sadly closed), with a few additions from myself.

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As we all know, the Tales From The Underground bootleg series is a great thing, for it features a huge collection of rare Tom Waits-songs that can’t be found on his official albums. Nevertheless, the folks who produced those bootlegs made some mistakes and forgot some great recordings. And there were a lot of new songs released after Tales From The Underground Volume 5 came out.

This compilation is meant as an addition to that great set.  It’s entitled Tales From the Riverside.

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Playlist: Bob Dylan sings about real persons

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Playlist: Bob Dylan sings about real persons

Bob Dylan has written many songs about real historic persons. This must have been a natural progression for him, coming from the folk tradition where murder ballads and songs about true events are very common. The “problem” is that sometimes Dylan invents his persons and it is really hard to tell reality from fiction.

Other playlists:
Bob Dylan – Murder ballads
Bob Dylan Shadows in the night track listing and Sinatra Spotify playlist

Hurricane – Bob Dylan, one of his most famous songs about a historic person:
Bob Dylan sang about the wrongfully jailed middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, and the memorable protest song has endured as one of Dylan’s classics. The Hurricane’s conviction was overturned nearly 20 years into his sentence (1985). Carter died in 2014.

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Playlist June and July 2014 from Johannasvisions

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We started a new series in January/February were we presented some of the songs we’ve played during the months that had passed. This is our playlist for June and July 2014, as usual it has something new and a few golden oldies.

Also check out our previous playlists:

Playlist January / February 2014
Playlist March 2014
Playlist April 2014
Playlist May 2014

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The Album I’ve played most this summer is Caleb Caudle’s Paint Another Layer On My Heart

Among all new songs, the new Ryan Adams song, Gimme something good have been played a lot.

Here are some very good songs from our playlist for June and July 2014:

Ida Jenshus – Shallow River (Part 1,2 and 3) ambitious and beautiful, and almost 15 minutes:

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Playlist May 2014 from Johannasvisions


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We started a new series in January/February were we presented some of the songs we’ve played during the months that had passed. This is our playlist for May 2014, as usual it has something new and a few golden oldies.

Also check out our previous playlists:

playlist-1_and_2_2014  playlist_march_2014-1  playlist April 2014

The Album I’ve played most in April 2014  is, …The Further Out You Get by The South

Among all new songs, the new Christopher Owens song, It comes back to you have been played a lot.

Here are three very good songs from our playlist for May 2014:

John Fullbright – Happy:

Sturgill Simpson – Voices:

The Secret Sisters – Rattle My Bones (video):

Spotify: May 2014, Johannasvisions:

– Hallgeir

Bob Dylan, Playlist

Today: Bob Dylan is 73 years old – top 25 Bob Dylan songs

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Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan’s early songs, such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “The Times They Are a-Changin'”, became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his first base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan’s six-minute single “Like a Rolling Stone” radically altered the parameters of popular music in 1965. His recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

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