Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
“We’ll meet on edges, soon,” said I
Proud ’neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now–
he not busy being born is busy dying
Bob Dylan, the single most important artist in the history of popular music, is 78 years old today Tuesday, May 24.
Here @ alldylan.com we got about 1700 Bob Dylan posts alive. In this tribute I’ll try to give an overview & hopefully lead you to material you might find interesting.
Here are links to some our Bob Dylan material @ alldylan.com
Bob Dylan quotes
Bootlegs
You can find some of Hallgeir’s favorites here:
Egil:
Best released/unreleased songs
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X Brilliant Live Performances from 19XX/2XXX
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 1998
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 2002
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 1997
- Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 2001
- Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue – 1976 spring tour playlist
- Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 1976
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 1987
- Bob Dylan: Temples of Flames 1987 playlist
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 1994
- Bob Dylan: 5 Brilliant live performances from the year 2000
- Bob Dylan: 6 Brilliant live performances from the year 2003
5 Great Songs recorded in 19XX series
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1961
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1962
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1963
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1964
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1971
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1973
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1974
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1975
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1981
- Bob Dylan: 5 great songs recorded in 1983
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Songs
- Bob Dylan – Top 200 songs (work in progress)
- Bob Dylan top 10 songs recorded in 1983 – according to Egil
Other people’s songs
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The Gospel Years
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 1 – Awakening
- Bob Dylan´s Gospel Years – Part 2: Mysteriously Saved – 1979 Timeline
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 3 – Slow Train Coming (album)
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 4 – Best Song 1979 “Slow Train”
- Bob Dylan´s Gospel Years Part 5: Saturday Night Live Performance
- Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years Part 6: 1979 Gospel Tour – A Treasure
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 7: Photo Special Warfield SF 1979
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 8: Our Favorite Songs Recorded in 1979
– - Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 9: Still Saved – 1980 Timeline
- Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 10: Grammy Awards 1980
Recording sessions
Albums
Concert videos/audio
- Bob Dylan: Live 1961- 1969 (video & audio)
- Bob Dylan: 5 essential videos from the 60’s
– - Bob Dylan live 1970 – 1979 (videos & audio)
- Bob Dylan: 7 essential videos from the 70’s
– - Bob Dylan: Live 1980 – 1989 (Video & audio)
- Bob Dylan: 8 essential videos from the 80’s
– - Bob Dylan concert videos/audio from 1990 – 1995 @ alldylan.com
- Bob Dylan: Concerts & Videos from 1996 – 1999 @ Alldylan.com
- Bob Dylan: 10 concert videos you MUST see from the 90’s
– - Bob Dylan live 2000 – 2009 (videos & audio)
- Bob Dylan live 2010 – 2014 (videos & audio)
- Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour 2015 – Videos & Audio
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Polls
- Bob Dylan’s best songs from the 1960s
- Bob Dylan: 30 best songs from the 1970s (Poll results)
- Bob Dylan: 30 best songs from the 1980s (Poll results)
- Bob Dylan: 31 best songs from the 1990s (poll results)
- Bob Dylan: His 30 best songs from 2000 – 2012 (poll results)
Cover versions
Check out this link: Bob Dylan cover version lists
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Other stuff
- Jack White and Bob Dylan – The Connections
- Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan mutual admiration
- Johnny Cash covers Bob Dylan – part 1
- Johnny Cash covers Bob Dylan – part 2
- 12 more Bob Dylan covers done by some incredible women
- 13 great Americana versions of Bob Dylan songs
- Nina Simone sings Bob Dylan
- Bruce Springsteen covers Bob Dylan
- Joe Cocker sings Bob Dylan
- Elliott Smith covers Bob Dylan
- 10 fine Jazz Covers Of Bob Dylan Songs
- Norah Jones covers Bob Dylan
- Boz Scaggs covers Bob Dylan (videos)
- Cher covers Bob Dylan – Happy Birthday Cher
- Eric Burdon covers Bob Dylan
- Jeff Buckley covers Bob Dylan
- The Black Crowes covers Bob Dylan
- Leon Russell covers Bob Dylan
- Richard Thompson covers Bob Dylan
- Solomon Burke covers Bob Dylan
- Waylon Jennings covers Bob Dylan
- Graham Nash covers Bob Dylan
- Patti Smith covers Bob Dylan
Check out:
- Alldylan @ Facebook
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- Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com
- Olof’s “Still On The Road“
-Egil
Many happy returns!
As many great people have said before me, thanks for all the great work over the years. Been around since the Visions of Johanna days and still look forward to your work.
Thanks Phil. I remember well that you were among the first visitors back in the “johannasvisions” days to comment on our posts 🙂 Much appreciated.
What a great blog! Thanks
Thanks Larry.
Thank you for all the great work you do with this site. It’s a daily pleasure following you guys.
Thanks Klaus.
Thanks so much for all the time and effort it is greatly appreciated.
From Mark
Sydney, Australia.
Thanks Mark!
Happy Birthday Bob and Thanks for Great concert in Dublin earlier this month. Keep it Rollin’ Bob
Here’s to you both, Hallgeir and Egil, for being the Best posters ( oops, bloggers, I mean ) of All Dylan since, well, Visions of Johanna. Keep it up ! Thankfully yours, and friendly greetings from bella Italia !
Thanks for this Rajan and all the other nice comments you´ve given 🙂 Guess we´ll just have to keep on keepin´ on…