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Bob Dylan: The Gospel Years, Part 8: Our Favorite Songs Recorded in 1979





Dylan didn´t record many songs in 1979, this first “gospel year”, and 9 out of 12 were released on his album “Slow Train Coming”.

As always we love lists, and need to close the 1979 part of “The Gospel Years” with our lists of “The Best Songs Recorded in 1979”.

Songs Recorded in 1979:

  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – 30 April 1979
    -> Trouble In Mind
    Released as b-side on the “Gotta Serve Somebody” single in September 1979 and on CD Pure Dylan – An Intimate Look At Bob Dylan, 21 October 2011.
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  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – 1 May 1979
    -> Precious Angel
    Released on Slow Train Coming, 20 August 1979.
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    -> Ain’t No Man Righteous, No Not One
    Considered for release and overdubbed 3 May 1979.
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  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – 2 May 1979
    -> When You Gonna Wake Up
    -> Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
    Released on Slow Train Coming, 20 August 1979.
    -> Ye Shall Be Changed
    Released on The Bootleg Series (Rare and Unreleased) 1961-1991, Volume 3, 26 March 1991.
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  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – 3 May 1979
    -> I Believe In You
    -> Slow Train
    Released on Slow Train Coming, 20 August 1979.
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  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama – 4 May 1979
    -> Gotta Serve Somebody
    -> Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
    -> When He Returns
    -> Man Gave Names To All The Animals
    Released on Slow Train Coming, 20 August 1979.

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January 29: Jonny Lang was born in 1981 – Here playing Bob Dylan songs

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Jonny Lang (born Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr.; January 29, 1981) is an American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist. He has five albums that charted on the top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart and has won a Grammy Award for Turn Around.

Let us listen to a couple of his Dylan versions.
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January 29: Bob Dylan performing “Don’t Think Twice” & “Man Gave Names To All The Animals” – Paris, 1990

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The first night’s set features few surprises except for a startling, arrhythmic arrangement of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” in the acoustic set, and
the statutory French hit, “Man Gave Names to All the Animals.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Theatre de Grand Rex
Paris, France
29 January 1990

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • G. E. Smith (guitar),
  • Tony Garnier (bass)
  • Christopher Parker (drums)

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Jan 28: Bob Dylan – We Are The World recording session (video)

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Dylan is part of the “We Are the World” recording session at A&M record- ing studios in Los Angeles. Arriving about 10 PM, he maintains a low profile throughout an evening of mutual backslapping. At 5:30 AM, Dylan records his solo vocal all four lines of it. He is nervous and uncertain until Stevie Wonder provides some voice-coaching and a piano backing, helping to set Dylan at ease. This moment is immortalised on the official We Are the World video.
-Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

A & M Studios
Hollywood
Los Angeles, California
28 and 29 February 1985

We Are The World recording session produced by Quincy Jones.

Rehearsal:




Official video:

Check out:

-Egil

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Bob Dylan: 5 fine live versions of “Seeing The Real You At Last”

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Well, I thought that the rain would cool things down
But it looks like it don’t
I’d like to get you to change your mind
But it looks like you won’t
~Bob Dylan from “Seeing The Real You at Last”

Edward G. Robinson, in his 1948 film (costarring Humphrey Bogart) Key Largo, mutters, “Think this rain would cool things off, but it don’t”; Dylan transmutes this into the opening lines of “Seeing the Real You at Last,” a song which gives some indication of being almost entirely composed of film dialogue, a veritable tour de force of imaginative borrowing. Our detectives have identified another line from Key Largo, two sets of lines from The Maltese Falcon (Bogart: “I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble” and, to Mary Astor, ”I’ll have some rotten nights after I’ve sent you over, but that’ll pass”), two bits of Bogart/Lauren Bacall dialog (one from To Have and Have Not, the other the closing lines of The Big Sleep), plus lines from The Hustler and from a Clint Eastwood film called Bronco Billy … all in “Seeing the Real You at Last.”
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

What I got out of Buddy [Holly] was that you can take influences from anywhere. Like his ‘That’ll be the Day’. I read somewhere that it was a line he heard in a movie, and I started realizing you can take things from everyday life that you hear people say. I still find that true. You can go anywhere in daily life and have your ears open and hear something … If it has resonance, you can use it in a song.
~Bob Dylan (to Robert Hilburn, 2004)

This is not a particular good Dylan song (not even close to top 200), but he’s given some interesting live versions over a period from 1986 – 2004.

First performance: Athletic Park, Wellington, New Zealand – 5 February 1986

Last performance: Stabler Arena, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – 16 November 2004.

It has been performed 247 times live.

Here are five of them:

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