Saturday, May 17th
Bob Dylan, “Garden Party” (R. Nelson), live, California (Chula Vista), 5/15/25
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2025
Monday, March 17th
another take
13th Floor Elevators, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (B. Dylan), 1967
2025
Saturday, March 15th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Link Wray (1929-2005), “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (B. Dylan), 1979
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1965 (Bringing It All Back Home)
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2024
Saturday, October 12th
timeless
Hard to predict what others might make of this performance. As for me, I found it, somewhat to my surprise, immensely moving.
Bob Dylan (with Jim Keltner [drums], et al.), “All Along the Watchtower,” live, New York (Darien), 9/17/24
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2023
Sunday, November 5th
timeless
The Staple Singers, “Uncloudy Day,” 1956
It was the most mysterious thing I’d ever heard. It was like the fog rolling in. I heard it again, maybe the next night, and its mystery had even deepened. What was that? How do you make that?
—Bob Dylan (quoted in M. Davidson & P. Fishel, eds., Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine [2023])
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The unreality of our house in moonlight
Is that if the moonlight strikes it
It is truly there tho it is ours—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”
2020
Wednesday, April 8th
passings
John Prine, singer, songwriter, October 10, 1946–April 7, 2020
Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember when Kris Kristofferson first brought him on the scene. All that stuff about “Sam Stone” the soldier junky daddy and “Donald and Lydia,” where people make love from ten miles away. Nobody but Prine could write like that. If I had to pick one song of his, it might be “Lake Marie.” I don’t remember what album that’s on.
—Bob Dylan, 2009 interview
“Lake Marie” (J. Prine), live (TV show), New York, 2000
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2019
Saturday, November 2nd
what’s new
Bob Dylan, “Not Dark Yet” (B. Dylan), live, published 10/12/19 (10/19 audio; old video footage)
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yesterday, Chicago
2019
Tuesday, August 6th
passings
D. A. Pennebaker (director, July 25, 1925–August 1, 2019), Dont Look Back (1967, filmed 1965), trailer
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my back pages
I saw this when it came out—must have been 14 years old. Aardvark Theater, Chicago (Old Town, Piper’s Alley). Some things stay with you.
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2019
Monday, June 10th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Bob Dylan, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” (B. Dylan), live, 1975 (Martin Scorsese, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, 6/12/19)
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And were You lost, I would be –
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 706 (Franklin)
2019
Thursday, May 9th
reimagining
Christopher Trapani (1980-), Visions and Revisions (2013); JACK Quartet, 2018
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Bob Dylan, “Visions of Johanna” (B. Dylan), 1966
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