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Happy birthday Gillian Welch: October 2: Gillian Welch is 47 Happy Birthday
Here are some great Bob Dylan cover versions:
Billy:
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October 2: Kinks released their self titled debut album in 1964
Kinks (album) is mix of blues rock, rockabilly, and that overall “British Invasion sound” that mixes R&B, skiffle, rock with catchy melodies. This is a time-capsule and it’s funny to open it up from time to time.
Kinks is the self-titled debut album by English rock band The Kinks, released in 1964. It was released with three tracks omitted as You Really Got Me in the US.
It is not rated among the best Kinks album and I can see why, it was made to capitalize on the success of the You Really Got Me single and were filled out with (nice enough) covers. It is a promising record and points toward greatness.
The best tracks are the Kinks’s own songs, and the highlights are Stop Your Sobbing, You really got me and So Mystifying.
Fun fact: It has Jimmy Page on guitar and Jon Lord on piano.
You really got me:
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October 2: Dolly Parton released Coat of Many Colors in 1971
A new acquaintance in the night
You mean no more to her than all the others she’s held tight
But I know she’s convinced you it was love at first sight
But she’s never met a man she didn’t like
Coat of Many Colors is the eighth solo studio album by Dolly Parton, released in 1971 by RCA Records. The title song, which Parton has described as her favourite of all the songs she’s ever written, deals with the poverty of her childhood. It reached #4 on the U.S. country singles charts.
Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors (acoustic):
Over the years, Parton would re-record a number of the songs from the album. She redid “Traveling Man” (not to be confused with the Ricky Nelson song of the same name), a song that involved an unusual love triangle between a travelling salesman, a woman, and her mother, for inclusion on her 1973 album Bubbling Over. She would also re-record her composition “My Blue Tears”, an “old-timey” folk-influenced song, with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt in the mid-1970s, for an ill-fated Trio album project. (The recording would eventually surface on Ronstadt’s 1982 album Get Closer). Parton cut the song for a third time in 2001, including it on her Little Sparrow album. “Early Morning Breeze” later appeared on her 1974 Jolene album.
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Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour 2015 – Videos & Audio
This is a collection of links to Video/audio posts from Bob Dylan’s 2015 tours here @ alldylan.com
1 leg – US Spring Tour (April 10 – May 17)
- April 10 – Bob Dylan: Atlantic City, NJ – April 10, 2015 (videos) – UPDATED
- April 12 – Bob Dylan: Simple Twist Of Fate, Richmond – April 12, 2015
- April 15 – Bob Dylan: Blowin’ In The Wind and Stay With Me, Montgomery – April 15, 2015 (videos)
- April 15 – Bob Dylan: Long And Wasted Years, Montgomery – April 15, 2015 (video)
- April 17 – Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue, North Charleston, SC – April 17, 2015 (Video)
- April 18 – Bob Dylan: St. Augustine, Florida 18 April 2015 (full concert audio)
- April 21 – Bob Dylan: Fort Lauderdale, FL – April 21, 2015 (videos)
- April 25 – Bob Dylan: Durham, NC – April 25, 2015 (videos)
- April 27 – Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee – 27 April 2015
- April 29 – Bob Dylan: Autumn Leaves, New Orleans – April 29 2015 (audio)
- May 5 – Bob Dylan: Houston, Texas – May 5, 2015 (video/audio)
- May 15 – Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan – 15 May 2015
- May 16 – Bob Dylan: Columbus, Ohio May 16, 2015 (audio)
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Bob Dylan: 12 Great live versions of “Long And Wasted Years” (videos)
Is there a place we can go?
Is there anybody we can see?
Maybe, it’s the same for you as it is for meI ain’t seen my family in twenty years
That ain’t easy to understand
They may be dead by now
I lost track of them after they lost their land
The live versions of this great song from “Tempest” have been a triumph. It has been a highlight @ many of his concerts the last 3 years.
First Ever Live performance:
Spektrum
Oslo, Norway
10 October 2013
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