Friday, January 25th
tonight in Chicago
He’s playing at Buddy Guy’s club (Legends), opening for Buddy himself.
Toronzo Cannon, “All Along the Watchtower” (B. Dylan), live, Detroit area (Auburn Hills), 2017
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2018
Friday, March 2nd
two takes
“My Back Pages” (B. Dylan)
Bob Dylan, live
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Bob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, et al., live, New York, 1992
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reading table
watching the downpour
from under a temple
bell—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Thursday, March 1st
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Bob Dylan, “It Ain’t Me Babe” (B. Dylan), live
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today too, today too
the nettle tree snags
the kite—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Saturday, February 24th
two takes
“Things Have Changed” (B. Dylan)
Bob Dylan, live
*****
Bettye LaVette, 2018
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reading table
An Entertainment for W.S. Graham for Him
Having Reached Sixty-Five
by W.S. Graham (1918-1986)
What are you going to do
With what is left of yourself
Now among the rustling
Of your maybe best years?
This is not an auto-elegy
With me pouring my heart
Out into where you
Differently stand or sit
On the Epidaurus steps.
What shall I say to myself
Having put myself down
On to a public page?
Where am I going now?
And where are you going
Tricked into reading
Words of my later life?
Let me pretend you are
Roughly of my age.
Are you a boy or a girl?
And what has happened to you?
Look at the chirping various
Leaves of Mr Graham’s
Spanking summer. Where are
You at? I know my face
Has changed. My hair has blanched
Into a wrong disguise
Sitting on top of my head.
Beside each other perched
On the Epidaurus steps.
Where am I going to go?
Shall I rise to follow
The thin sound of the goats
Tinkling their bells?
2017
Monday, January 9th
Perhaps even more striking than his self-absorbed failure to acknowledge the award in a meaningful way was her generous-spirited performance, in Stockholm, of his song.
Patti Smith, “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” (B. Dylan), live, Stockholm, 12/10/16
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
2016
Friday, October 14th
Bob Dylan, “High Water (For Charley Patton)” (B. Dylan)
Live, Irvine, Calif., 2013
No matter how often he changes styles, he keeps coming back to the blues.
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baseball
Javy Baez (Chicago Cubs infielder), defensive highlights
2015
Thursday, June 11th
In response to Monday’s post on Dylan covers, a reader commented:
Fairport Convention’s “Si tu dois partir” (a French-language version of “If You Gotta Go, Go Now”) comes to mind.
Fairport Convention, “Si tu dois partir” (B. Dylan), recording, 1969
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Tuesday morning
Louisville, Kentucky
2015
Monday, June 8th
Great Dylan covers? The list is surprisingly short. There’s Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower.” And Johnny Winter’s “Highway 61 Revisited.” And this.
Antony and the Johnsons, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (B. Dylan)
2014
Friday, July 11th
only rock ’n’ roll
Bob Dylan (with Justin Poskin, guitar; Tony Marsico, bass; Chalo Quintana, drums), live (Late Night with David Letterman), 1984
“Don’t Start Me Talkin'” (S. Williamson II, AKA Alex [or Aleck] “Rice” Miller)
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“License To Kill” (B. Dylan)
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“Jokerman” (B. Dylan)
2014
Friday, May 16th
two takes
“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” (B. Dylan)
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosanne Cash, Shawn Colvin (with G. E. Smith, guitar), live, New York, 1992
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Bob Dylan, live, England (Bournemouth), 1997
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art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, 1994
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