Bonnie Raitt: Standing in the Doorway
Bonnie’s version appeared on her 2012 album Slipstream, and very good it is too. The original was on Dylan’s Time out of Mind, released in 1997.
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Gregg Allman: Going Going Gone
Originally on Dylan’s 1974 album Planet Waves, this fine version by Gregg Allman appeared on his eighth and last solo album Southern Blood in 2017. He died that same year.
Cowboy Junkies: I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You
Margo and the boys in customary low-key mode for a song from Dylan’s 2020 collection Rough and Rowdy Ways.
Rod Stewart: Sweetheart Like You
This first appeared on Dylan’s Infidels album in 1983 and was covered by the Rodster 12 years later on A Spanner in the Works.
Night of the hurricane
ON the evening of October 15, 1987, I was working on the Daily Mail off Fleet Street when I went with a colleague for a break-time drink at a nearby pub named … Continue readingNight of the hurricane
Grateful Dead: It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Lovely, laid-back, live performance of the Dylan classic. And here’s Bryan Ferry’s take on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxeurlq7m2k
The Heptones: I Shall Be Released
Something a bit jollier today; a 1969 reggae rendition of the Dylan song which first appeared on the Band’s Music From Big Pink the previous year.
A tribute to Tom Verlaine
THIS is writer James Rogers’s reaction to the death on Saturday of Tom Verlaine. The darkness has doubled, lightning has struck itself – Tom Verlaine has passed on. The Cadillac … Continue readingA tribute to Tom Verlaine
Television: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
With tragic timing, I scheduled this clip for today unaware that Tom Verlaine had died on Saturday, aged 73. RIP TV, a true guitar genius. Another star taken early from … Continue readingTelevision: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
Caetano Veloso: Jokerman
According to this website https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/famous-brazilian-singers/ Caetano Veloso is the sixth-most famous Brazilian singer of all time. In this performance from 1992, he gets his lungs round Dylan’s song from the … Continue readingCaetano Veloso: Jokerman