We had a fantastic night at Høvleriet in Haugesund last night. We want to come back, what a venue and what an atmosphere! Thank you. – Ida Jenshus (on her webpage) Ida Jenshus has recently released her third album, Someone to love. The album is a departure from the country on her two previous records, … Continue reading Ida Jenshus live in Haugesund
Well, but you see, Columbia’s never offered to do that. They have done that with The Basement Tapes and the Budokan album. But they’ve never offered to put that out as a historical album or whatever. And believe me, if they wanted to do it, they could. ~Bob Dylan to Kurt Loder in 1984 “I … Continue reading Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert
I have nearly 30 albums by Townes Van Zandt, most of them live and released after he passed away. Most of them better than 99% of everything released today. My mother and father are heavy smokers. When we went camping when I was a child we drove in our Opel Record. No safety belts, no … Continue reading If I needed you by Townes Van Zandt
” ‘Love & Theft’ is not an album I’ve recorded to please myself. If I really wanted to that, I would have recorded some Charley Patton songs.” ~Bob Dylan The old Chess records, the Sun records. . . I think that’s my favorite sound for a record . . . I like . . . … Continue reading Today: Bob Dylan released “Love And Theft” in 2001 – 11 years ago
Anyway, Leadbelly did most of those kind of songs. He’d been out of prison for some time when he decided to do children’s songs and people said oh, why did Leadbelly change? Some people liked the old ones, some people liked the new ones. Some people liked both songs. But he didn’t change, he was … Continue reading Today: Bob Dylan released “Under The Red Sky” in 1990 – 22 years ago