Continue reading January 15: Bob Dylan & The Band at Maryland in 1974 (audio, almost full concert)
I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
~Bob Dylan (The Les Crane Show, Feb 1965)If it wasn’t for Elvis and Hank Williams, I couldn’t be doing what I do today.
~Bob Dylan (to Robert Shelton, June 1978)
| The tune utilized on ‘House Of Gold’ is an obvious variant of Williams’ own ‘Lost Highway’. Williams’ original recording was made in 1949 as a demo and released, with overdubs, in April 1951 (Polydor 833-752). It is currently available on the “Complete Hank Williams” box set (Mercury Records, 2000). ~The songs he didn’t write (Derek Barker) |
Continue reading Bob Dylan: House of Gold (Hank Williams) – Videos
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal
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Continue reading 9 Great Cover versions of Dylan´s “Like A Rolling Stone” (Video & Audio)
Norah Jones joins in on shared vocal for the last song “I Shall Be Released”.
Continue reading Bob Dylan @ Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington – July16, 2005 (full concert video)
I was born in East Virginia
North Carolina I did go
There I courted a fair young maiden
But her age I did not know
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Dylan records two songs with Randy, Gary, and Earl Scruggs at the New York home of Thomas B. Allen, for a documentary on Earl Scruggs. Playing harmonica and guitar on “Nashville Skyline Rag,” he then duets with Earl on “East Virginia Blues.” The first song is later released on Earl Scruggs Performing with His Family and Friends, both are included in a documentary of the same name screened by NBC in January 1971.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
Continue reading Bob Dylan and Earl Scruggs: East Virginia Blues