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The Best Dylan Covers: John Lynch – One More Cup Of Coffee

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Desire is the seventeenth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on January 5, 1976 by Columbia Records.

It is one of Dylan’s most collaborative efforts, featuring the same caravan of musicians as the acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue tours the previous year (later documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5); many of the songs also featured backing vocals by Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley.

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John Lynch is a blues singer/shouter from Cork City. John makes impromptu guest appearances on any given Monday at Charlies Bar, Union Quay, Cork. He also performs as lead vocalist of The Medication Blues Band. John hasn’t made any formal recordings (as yet), but some videos of his live performances exist on Youtube. Check out his rendition of “Hoochie Coochie Man”, also from this show. Cork band Princes Street named one of their albums in his honour “The Night John Lynch Lost His Glasses”.

On 24th May, 2012, Cork city musicians celebrated Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday at the Pavilion. John Lynch sang up a storm with his rendition of ‘One More Cup of Coffee’ from Dylan’s 1976 ‘Desire’ album.

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How Many Bob Dylan songs ?

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Let’s have some fun.. it’s Friday goddammit.

Here is a brilliant piece of lyric, how many Dylan songs & what songs ? Use the comment section.

The song is called:

Friday

It’s Friday morning on Franklin Avenue
I’m just sitting here beating on my trumpet
up on the white veranda
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you

I’m hungry and I’m irritable
And I’m tired of this bag of tricks
Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent
I guess I’ll be leaving tomorrow
If I have to beg, steal or borrow

The air is getting hotter
Every head is so dignified
Every moon is so sanctified
But it grieves my heart, love
If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you

I don’t care about economy
But I ain’t a judge, you don’t have to be nice to me
Shake the dust off of your feet, don’t look back
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
Your loyalty is not to me, but to the stars above
Your days are numbered, so are mine

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Dec 4: Bob Dylan @ Paramount Theater, Portland, Oregon – 1980

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Dylan concludes one of his finest tours with a 25-song set, which includes “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” and a version of”To Ramona” featuring California bluegrasser David Grisman on mandolin. The tour ends with a fivesong encore: “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “City of Gold,” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” “It’s Alright, Ma,”and “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.”
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)

Last concert of the so called “A Musical Retrospective Tour” (Nov 9 – Dec 4, 1980; 19 concerts), and another wonderful show.

Paramount Theater
Portland, Oregon
3 December 1980

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Fred Tackett (guitar & mandolin)
  • Willie Smith (keyboards)
  • Tim Drummond (bass)
  • Jim Keltner (drums)
  • Clydie King, Carolyn Dennis, Regina McCrary (background vocals)

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Dec 3: Bob Dylan interview @ KQED-TV Studios, San Francisco, 1965 (videos)

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Oh, I think of myself more as a song and dance man, y’know
~Press Conference, San Francisco 3 December 1965

Legendary press conference.

The San Francisco Press Conference was set up by Ralph Gleason at KQED-TV, an educational station, in the bay area of San Francisco and took place on December 3rd 1965. It was broadcast on KQED later that day, just before Dylan and The Hawks played their first night at the Berkeley Community Theater.
Source: The Fiddler Now Upspoke, pp. 359-374.

KQED-TV Studios
San Francisco, California
3 December 1965
San Francisco Press Conference

Released on the DVD Dylan Speaks, Eagle Media MDV622, 30 October 2006.

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I don’t play folk-rock.

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Dec 1: Bette Midler was born in 1945 – Bob Dylan & Bette Midler, New York 1975 recording session

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Secret Sound Studios
New York City, New York
October 1975
Bette Midler recording session.

  • Bette Midler (vocal)
  • Bob Dylan (vocal)
  • Dave Webster (slide guitar)
  • Moogy Klingman (piano & harmonica)
  • Ralph Schuckett (organ)
  • John Siegler (bass)
  • John Wilcox (drums)

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From bigozine2.com:

Towards the end of 2009, a new Bob Dylan bootleg, Bob Dylan New York Sessions 1974-1975, surfaced which contained the following:

September 16 1974
1 – Idiot Wind – take 6, overdubbed on Oct 8 Test Pressing
2 – Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts- Take 1 Test Pressing, September 17 1974
3 – You’re A Big Girl Now – Take 2 Upgrade to Biograph Version, September 19 1974
4 – If You See Her Say Hello – Take 1 Test Pressing
5 – Tangled Up In Blue – Take 2 or 3 Test Pressing, Studio E Columbia Studios N.Y.C. 14 July 1975
6 – Rita Mae – Studio E Columbia Studios N.Y.C. 20 July 1975
7 – Hurricane, Secret Sound Studios N.Y.C. Oct 75
8 – Bob Dylan / Bette Midler Buckets Of Rain sessions (Uncirculated tape) 27 Mins
9 – Buckets Of Rain (Finished Version ) released in 1976 on Songs For The New Depression

One of the highlights is the newly-found tape of Dylan’s sessions with Bette Midler in October, 1975 which produced her cover of Buckets Of Rain.

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