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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

4 good and one great version of Bob Dylan’s Sweetheart like you

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Sweetheart Like You is a song to a woman, it sounds like a love song, but also a warning not to stray away from home/God.

It was released on the album Infidels that was released October 27, 1983.

Oliver Trager’s book, Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, mentions that some have criticized this song as sexist. Indeed, music critic Tim Riley makes that accusation in his book, Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary, singling out lyrics like “…a woman like you should be at home/That’s where you belong/Taking care of somebody nice/Who don’t know how to do you wrong.” However, Trager also cites other interpretations that dispute this claim.

Some have argued that “Sweetheart Like You” is being sung to the Christian church (“what’s a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?”), claiming that Dylan is mourning the church’s deviation from scriptural truth. I think this is stretching the analysis a bit too far, but everyone is entitled to his/her opinions.

I love the melody, I love the song.

Let us start with the 4 good ones:

Very fine version from World party/Carl Wallinger – Sweetheart Like You (Audio):

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Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Concerts, Bob Dylan video

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue II (videos)

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His spring 1976 performances, and the live album and one-hour television show (both called Hard Rain) that made those performances available to a broader audience, were unpopular with the public and (at best) ignored by critics and commentators, but they contain some of the very finest performed art Bob Dylan has ever produced.
~Paul Williams (Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Vol 2: The Middle Years 1974-1986)

Bob Dylan’s spring 1976 tour (Rolling Thunder Revue II) gave us many incredible performances.

Parts of 3 concerts were filmed:

  • Starlight Ballroom – Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida – 22 April 1976 – Afternoon
  • Starlight Ballroom – Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida – 22 April 1976 – Evening
  • Hughes Stadium – Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado – 23 May 1976

This post is a collection of videos from these shows that I’ve found on different websites. . Please use the comments section or drop me an email if you know were to find more videos from these shows. As always we do not upload videos, we only embed stuff that is already uploaded.

PS! if the videos appear black (no play button), just click on them… and they will probably start.

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

Shooter Jennings covers Isis by Bob Dylan

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Waylon Albright “Shooter” Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009. Signed to Universal South Records, Jennings made his debut with the single “4th Of July” of his 2005 album Put the “O” Back in Country, which peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard country charts. Jennings has since followed with five more albums: Electric Rodeo (2006), The Wolf (2007), Black Ribbons (2009), Family Man (2012), and The Other Life (2013).

Born May 19, 1979, Shooter Jennings is the only child of country music icons Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter.

“Isis” is the second track on the Bob Dylan album Desire. It was written by Bob Dylan in collaboration with Jacques Levy. It is a long complicated song and it seems like a difficult song to cover.

Shooter does a great job on this classic Bob Dylan song, I have included two performances.

Shooter Jennings, Isis, live at Goose On The Lake 2012:

And now with full band an even better version!

Shooter Jennings – Isis, Houston 08.23.14:

– Hallgeir

Bob Dylan, Cover versions

5 great cover versions of Ring Them Bells

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photo: Taken from a bootleg of Oh Mercy outtakes

The lyrics of the Dylan’s song Ring Them Bells are dark, to me, they are much darker than  the melody reveals. The Melody sounds sombre but uplifting in its own dignified way. I can understand why so many artists have made their own interpretations of the song. I have picked a few that I like especially good.

Let us start with Sarah Jarosz’s acoustic performance of Ring Them Bells for Vanguard and Sugar Hill Record’s The Americana Sessions recorded and taped at Minutia Studios in Nashville, TN. It is taken from  Jarosz’s 2011 album,  Follow Me Downavailable on Sugar Hill Records.

Sarah Jarosz – Ring Them Bells:

 

My second choice is quite different but equally good.

Sufjan Stevens – Ring Them Bells (audio):

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Bob Dylan, Film

Top 3 use of Bob Dylan songs in movies

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Bob Dylan is a pop culture icon.His songs (as either writer/composer or performer) are used in close to 400 movies and TV shows. Bob Dylan has been very liberal with his licensing (not like the Beatles or Tom Waits). The rules are, no cover songs, no performances, but scenes where the music of Bob Dylan is used in a way that enhances the action and/or mood. These are my three favorites.

Tell us about what you favorite Dylan cues in movies are (in the comments).

The best western ever made (some days I think it is the best film, period.) This is classic!

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1) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – Knockin on Heaven’s Door (starts about 1.50 in,but it is so good you should see it all):

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