Seven and half years off the road, Dylan returns with the Band. Oakland Coliseum Stadium Feb 11, 1974. Bob Dylan And The Band :: Oakland, CA 1974 (zipped folder, external link) Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered […]
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David T. Walker :: Lay Lady Lay / Plum Happy (1970)
In the hands of David T. Walker , “Lay Lady Lay,” a cornerstone of Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, slides into a jazzy, languid, space residing somewhere just shy of early 70s porn groove and […]
Bob Dylan :: Hero Blues (Freewheelin’ Outtake), December 6, 1962
Happy birthday to your hero and mine, the forever inscrutable Bob Dylan. For more than five decades, he’s brilliantly confounded expectations and confused audiences in an extremely entertaining manner. And […]
The Four Seasons Do Dylan
While spinning the recent reissue of Dylan’s Gospel , I was reminded of two incredibly odd Dylan “reinterpretations.” To that, introducing Bob Dylan’s music through the lens of Frankie Valli and the […]
Odds & Ends :: Bob Dylan / Slow Train & City Of Gold – Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, November, 1980
Light In The Attic just reissued the Los Angeles Gospel Choir’s Dylan Gospel LP, a downright excellent collection from 1968. Bob himself, of course, had his own gospel period about a decade later, releasing a trilogy […]
The Brothers And Sisters :: Dylan’s Gospel
Of the many, many tribute albums concerning the Dylan catalog, the Lou Adler produced Dylan’s Gospel stands as one of the most coherent. Tracked at Sound Recorders in Hollywood, this 1969 set […]
Odds & Ends :: Dylan’s 1965 Studio Fragments
Bob Dylan :: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait
In the early 1970s, rumors floated around the lunatic fringe that the dude making records under the name “Bob Dylan” was not in fact Bob Dylan. The real Dylan had […]
Bob Dylan :: Tomorrow Is A Long Time (New Morning Outtake)
The imminent release of Dylan’s Bootleg Series Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait has been met with derision in some quarters. Do we really need a collection of alternate takes and unreleased material drawn mainly from Dylan’s most […]
Bob Dylan: Abandoned Love – The Other End, NYC, July 3, 1975
The announcement of the latest installment of Bob Dylan’s indispensable Bootleg Series is yet another reminder of the sheer depth of the man’s archives. But even with outtakes regularly emerging in […]
Tom Waits :: Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (Spoken Word)
For fellow Tom Waits freaks, the pairing of Waits guesting on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour is something like manna. The following five tracks find Waits calling in to Dylan’s show, commenting on […]
Odetta :: Odetta Sings Dylan / Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
As Dylan fandom knows no bounds, a couple of years back I came across Linda Mason Sings Bob Dylan. Privately pressed and released in 1964, it is the earliest known […]
The Aping of Bob Dylan :: Mouse / A Public Execution
It was somewhere in New Mexico, while out in the desert on a road trip listening the old Nuggets compilation, that a bunch of us got to listing our favorite Dylan […]
Bob Dylan :: Every Grain Of Sand
“That was an inspired song that came to me. I felt like I was just putting down words that were coming from somewhere else, and I just suck it out.” […]
Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia :: Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan)
I don’t know if it’s the weather, an act of habit or a touch of both but I often find myself returning to Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia’s Live At […]