The Allman Brothers Band "Ohne Filter" -5 Juli 1991

Enkele hoogtepunten uit het optreden van The Allman Brothers in het legendarische programma "Ohne Filter" op 5 Juli 1991.Vier originele leden van de band zijn van de partij, Gregg Allman (vocalen en orgel),Dicky Betts (gitaar),Butch Trucks (drums)Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums), aangevuld met de fantastische Warren Haynes(Gitaar en zang) en Allen Woody(bass)De laatste twee zouden we later weer tegen komen in die andere prachtige band Gov,t Mule


Stateboro Blues
Statesboro Blues" is een song van Blind Willie McTell die refereert aan de stad Statesboro in Georgia. Door veel artiesten gecoverd maar deze versie kwam op plaats 9 van het muziekblad ,,Rolling Stone,, op de lijst van ,,100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time ,,

De band werd in 1969 opgericht door Duane Allman (gitaar), Gregg Allman (vocalen en orgel), Dicke Betts (gitaar), Berry Oakley (basgitaar), Butch Trucks (drums) en Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).


Kind Of Bird
Geschreven door Warren Haynes en Dickey Betts.Beide liefhebbers van de muziek van Charlie Parker (nickname,,Bird,,)

In maart 1971 speelde de band enkele malen in de Fillmore East. Deze optredens zijn opgenomen en te horen op hun derde album, de dubbel-LP At Filmore East. Het album werd een doorslaand succes en groeide uit tot een klassieker, die wordt beschouwd als een van de beste live- en bluesrock-albums allertijden.


Jessica
Dickey Betts jongste dochter heet Jessica,schreef het nummer toen hij haar op eenjarige leeftijd door de kamer zag kruipen

Op 29 oktober 1971, niet lang nadat At Filmore East de gouden status had verworven, kwam Duane Allman in een motorongeluk om het leven. Ondanks het verlies van de leadman besloot de band toch door te gaan en de opnames van het vierde album af te maken. Dickey Betts nam de rol van Duane over op Eat a Peach. Na enkele optredens als een vijfkoppige band werd er besloten weer een zesde lid en een nieuw muzikant toe te voegen aan de band. Het werd pianist Chuck Leavell.


Whippin Post
Whipping Post" is gesschreven door Gregg Allman,de originele versie staat op het debuutalbum The Allman Brothers Band.Maar de mooiste versie staat op het dubbel album live At Fillmore East,een versie van 23 minuten (een hele plaatkant)

In 1976 viel de band uit elkaar, toen Gregg Allman werd opgepakt voor meerdere drugs-gerelateerde misdrijven en getuigde tegen een vriend en medewerker van de band. Leavell, Johanson en Williams vormden samen de band Sea Level, en Betts ging verder met zijn solo-carrière. Capricorn bracht hierna enkele albums uit met nog niet eerder uitgebracht materiaal en live-opnames, waaronder Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas.


Ramblin Man
Geschreven door Dickey Betts, komt van het album Brothers and Sisters en gebazeerd op een nummer van Hank Williams uit 1951.Het was hun eerste en enige top 10 single
(nr 2 in de Billboard Hot 100 chart)

Pas in 1989 kwam de groep weer bij elkaar, mede door het succes van een uit vier cd's bestaande compilatiealbum, uitgebracht door PolyGram. De band was niet compleet: Leavell was op tournee met de Rolling Stones en Williams was in 1983 gestorven aan kanker. De band werd aangevuld met gitarist Warren Haynes en bassist Allen Woody. De groep sloot een contract met Epic Records en bracht in 1990 het album Seven Turns uit, dat zeer goed werd ontvangen bij critici en hun bestverkopende album in jaren werd.


Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971)
Overleden op October 1971 ten gevolge van een motorongeluk.


Raymond Berry Oakley III (April 4, 1948 – November 11, 1972
Ook Oakley kwam om bij een motor ongeluk,een jaar na het fatale ongeval van Douane.


Douglas Allen Woody (October 3, 1955 – August 26, 2000)

Legendarisch Live: The Allman Brothers Den Haag 22Sept 1980
http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/radio2/kro/legendarischlive/20070302-23.wma

Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Bruce Douglas Cockburn is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. His song styles range from folk to jazz-influenced rock and his lyrics cover a broad range of topics that reveal a passion for human rights, environmental issues, politics, and spirituality.

                "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"  Bruce Cockburn, ( album Stealing Fire.)

The song was inspired by Cockburn's visit, sponsored by Oxfam, to Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico following the counterinsurgency campaign of dictator Efraín Ríos Montt.^[1] Although Cockburn had occasionally touched on political themes in his earlier songs, "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" was his first explicitly political song to be released as a single, and earned him a new reputation as an outspoken musical activist.
In the song, Cockburn despairs of waiting for a political solution to the crisis, and expresses the desire to take matters into his own hands. Each verse ends with a line stating what Cockburn would do if he had a rocket launcher: in the first verse, I'd make somebody pay. In the second, I would retaliate. In the third, I would not hesitate.
The fourth and final verse ends with the song's most famous and controversial lyric: If I had a rocket launcher, some son-of-a-bitch would die.

 Here comes the helicopter, second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say, hey
If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I'd make somebody pay

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation, or some less humane fate
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice, at least I've got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher, if I had a rocket launcher
If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941)

 

Bob Dylan at the The Todaiji Temple Nara Japan May 22nd 1994

The Great Music Experience was a concert starring Japanese and international musicians staged at the eighth century Buddhist temple of Todai-ji, in Nara, Japan in May 1994. The concert, held over three nights and part-backed by Unesco, took place in front of the world's largest wooden building, housing the largest Buddha statue in the world. Ring Them Bells The Todai-Ji concert brought together Japanese and Western musicians playing music showing the influences of both cultures. The musicians included Bob Dylan, Jon Bon Jovi, Joni Mitchell and INXS. Dylan played in front of the Tokyo New Philharmonic orchestra, the first time he had played with an orchestra. Ii,ts A Hard Rain Gonna Fall The star of the show turned out to be Dylan who said as soon as he came off-stage that he had not sung so well for 15 years. Dylan opened with A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall which Q magazine said was "no ordinary version...[he] really opens his lungs and heart and sings, like he's not done for many a year...The only word for it majestic." I Shall Be Released

Bob Dylan - Every Grain Of Sand

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"Every Grain of Sand" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in Los Angeles in the spring of 1981 and released in August of that year on Dylan's album Shot of Love. It was subsequently included on the compilation Biograph. An early version of the song, recorded in September 1980 and featuring Jennifer Warnes on backing vocal, was released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991. The song appeared on the soundtrack for the 1997 film Another Day In Paradise.


In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need
When the pool of tears beneath my feet flood every newborn seed
There’s a dyin’ voice within me reaching out somewhere
Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair

Don’t have the inclination to look back on any mistake
Like Cain, I now behold this chain of events that I must break
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand


Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay


I gaze into the doorway of temptation’s angry flame
And every time I pass that way I always hear my name
Then onward in my journey I come to understand
That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand

I have gone from rags to riches in the sorrow of the night
In the violence of a summer’s dream, in the chill of a wintry light
In the bitter dance of loneliness fading into space
In the broken mirror of innocence on each forgotten face


I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand

Bob Dylan - Gonna Serve Somebody (Saturday Night Live)

                                  Slow Train Coming is the nineteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 20, 1979 by Columbia Records. It was the artist's first effort since becoming a born-again Christian, and all of the songs either express his strong personal faith, or stress the importance of Christian teachings and philosophy. The evangelical nature of the record alienated many of Dylan's existing fans; at the same time, many Christians were drawn into his fan base. Slow Train Coming was listed at #16 in the 2001 book CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music.(Wikipedia)

                                           "Gotta Serve Somebody"(Slow Tain Comin)

This song is about finding meaning in life through serving God. At the time of writing, Bob Dylan was a born-again Christian, hence the song's religious message: "You're gonna have to serve somebody/Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you're gonna have to serve somebody."(Songfacts)

Bob Dylan - Searching For A Soldiers Grave

 

Wembley Arena London, England October 6, 2000

 

  "Searching For A Soldier's Grave" is track #48 on the album The Unreleased Recordings.

 Written by Jim Anglin (1913-1987), who sold the copyrights to Roy Acuff (this was the case even with This World Can't Stand Long; it's been recorded by The Blue Sky Boys, Hank Williams, et al., and by Ralph Stanley(on Pray For The Boys), which is probably the source of Dylan's version.
Performed by Bob Dylan on various occasions since the first performance in Portland, OR, Jun 15 2000

A superb rendition by three Americans named Floyd, Marcia and Evelena of this deeply poignant old song, as resonant today as it ever has been.

.Floyd, Marcia [ Sister], Evelena, [ Daughter].

Bob Dylan - Talkin New York (1961)

On the evening of November 4, 1961, 10 months after arriving in New York and nine days after signing with Columbia Records, Bob Dylan performed 22 songs at Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City



Dylan had been making a reasonable name for himself in the folk community around NYC’s Greenwich Village since his arrival in the city, and had achieved good reviews playing in the area’s coffee bars and folk cellars, most notably from Robert Shelton on the New York Times.


https://rapidshare.com/files/3916002/Bob_Dylan_CARNEGIE_CHAPTER_HALL_1961.rar




Ramblin' outa the wild West,
Leavin' the towns I love the best.
Thought I'd seen some ups and down,
‘Til I come into New York town.
People goin' down to the ground,
Buildings goin' up to the sky.

--Bob Dylan, Talkin’ New York

BOB DYLANS,S BLONDE ON BLONDE (P3)

Bob Dylan, geboren als Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebreeuws: Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham) (Duluth, Minnesota, 24 mei 1941) is een Joods-Amerikaans popmusicus. Hij wordt beschouwd als een van de grootste songwriters van Amerika. Veel mensen beschouwen hem als de eerste singer-songwriter. Hij heeft een oeuvre bij elkaar gespeeld dat op één lijn wordt gesteld met dat van Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie en Hank Williams, die deel uitmaken van het Amerikaanse culturele erfgoed.




Dylans carrière begon in het midden van de jaren vijftig, nog in zijn middelbare schooltijd. Zijn muzikale en literaire faam zijn sindsdien uitgegroeid tot een welhaast filmisch en opstandig, maar ook onwillig boegbeeld van de onrust in de Amerikaanse samenleving. De beweging voor de burgerrechten kende geen beter volkslied dan zijn song Blowin' in the Wind (1963). Miljoenen jongeren omarmden The Times They Are A-Changin'.





track 11 Absolutely sweet Mary

- Bob Dylan Lyrics

In een interview, gepubliseerd in Paul Zollo's book Songwriters on Songwriting, Expanded Fourth Edition (New York: Da Capo Press, 1997), geeft Dylan een idee hoe hij de song ziet en geeft uitleg over de zin "yellow railroad":

That's about as complete as you can be. Every single letter in that line. It's all true. On a literal and on an escapist level.... Getting back to the yellow railroad, that could be from looking someplace. Being a performer, you travel the world. You're not just looking out of the same window everyday. You're not just walking down the same old street. So you must make yourself observe whatever. But most of the time it hits you. You don't have to observe. It hits you. Like, "yellow railroad" could have been a blinding day when the sun was so bright on a railroad someplace and it stayed on my mind.... These aren't contrived images. These are images which are just in there and have got to come out.

Dylan heeft "Sweet Marie" tot aan 1988 zelden live gespeeld,tijdens zijn MTV unplugged optreden kwam het nummer weer bovendrijven en sinds die tijd staat het nummer weer regelmatig op de setlist.



trtack 12 4th Time Around

- Bob Dylan Lyrics

De melody en de verhaallijn is sterk beinvloed door "Norwegian Wood"van The Beatles.
Dylan en Lennon hadden een gezonde rivaliteit over het schrijven van liedjes,veel van tracks op het Album Rubber Soul zijn beinvloed door Bob Dylan.

track 13 Obviously 5 Believers




Memphis Minnie's "Me and My Chauffer Blues", Chuck Berry's "I Want to Be Your Driver" het bekende "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". Muddy Waters' "Trouble No More." Verder komt de openingszin"Early in the morning" overeen met Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman." In het laatste deel komt de zin"feel so all alone" die je ook kan vinden in de Blonde On Blonde opener "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35".
"Obviously 5 Believers" werd niet gespeeld tijdens Dylan's 1966 tour, en zelfs tot aan 1995 zelden live opgevoerd,daarna duik het regelmatig in setlists op.

track 14 Sad eyed Lady of the Lowlands

- Bob Dylan Lyrics
Het lied gaat over Sara Lownds met wie Dylan toen getrouwd was.



Op het Album Desire staat het lied Sara waarin Bob zingt: " Staying up for nights in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you.


Bob & Sara

BOB DYLANS,S BLONDE ON BLONDE P2 (Live)

Blonde on Blonde, is de zevende plaat van Bob Dylan, een dubbelelpee (vermoedelijk de eerste in de pophistorie), die werd geproduceerd door Bob Johnston en opgenomen in Nashville, Tennessee. Het album verscheen in het voorjaar van 1966. Blonde on Blonde wordt gerekend tot Dylan's beste werk, sommigen beschouwen het als Dylans absolute meesterwerk: op de List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Times bezet Blonde on Blonde veelzeggend plaats nummer 9.
Blonde on Blonde steeg in de Verenigde Staten destijds tot nummer negen op de Billboard's Pop Albums chart; in Engeland kwam het album terecht op de derde plaats.
Blonde on Blonde is na Bringing It All Back Home en Highway 61 Revisited, allebei uit 1965, Dylans derde album met dat hoogsttypische dylanachtige rock en roll geluid. Op het album horen sommigen een jazz-achtige invloed doorklinken, hetgeen kan worden toegeschreven aan het stel doorgewinterde studio-muzikanten, die overigens een essentieel aandeel hebben in de sfeer van de twee platen. De veertien meeslepende nummers ovetreffen overwegend de 4 minuten speeltijd. De ballade Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands duurt elf en half minuut, ongebruikelijk lang voor het beat-tijdperk.

Track 6 Stuck inside of mobile with the
memphis blues again

- Bob Dylan Lyrics.
October 23, 1990 The Municipal Coliseum
Charleston West Virginia.
The Grateful Dead speelde de song in hun live shows gedurende de 1980s en de 1990s
Toen Dylan & the Dead samen tourden in 1987 werd het nummer verschillende malen gespeeld.
Het nummer komt voor in de film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, en is vermeld in het boek van Hunter S. Thompson.

Track 7 Leopard-Skin pill-box hat

- Bob Dylan Lyrics.

Een satirisch Dylan gedicht over het modebeeld van de sixties.
Hoedjes in de vorm van een pillendoosje,bekleed met luipaardhuid.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was een van de beroemde dragers van dit wangedrocht.




track 8 Just like a Woman

- Bob Dylan Lyrics.

Dylan schreef deze ballad op Thanksgiving Day 1965 toen hij op toernee was in Kansas City. Naar verluid geinspereerd door een Andy Warhol model, pin up girl Edie Sedgwick,zij staat op een van de foto,s van het origineleBlonde On Blonde album en overleed aan een overdosis drugs in 1971. Het kan echter ook over zijn relatie met Joan Baez gaan




track 9 Most likely you go your way and i"ll go mine

- Bob Dylan Lyrics.
Passariano 1996

Opgenomen in de Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee,met medewerking van lokale muzikanten als Wayne Moss, Charlie McCoy, Kenneth A. Buttrey (Neil Young) Hargus Robbins, Jerry Kennedy, Joe South, Bill Aikins, Henry Strzelecki en Jamie Robertson.
"Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" was meestal de opening en de toegift tijdens de Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour. een van deze opnames werd gebruikt als openingstrack voor het live album Before the Flood. Al single werd het geen succes, #66 op de Billboard Hot 100.
track 10 Temporary like Achilles

- Bob Dylan Lyrics


Temporary Like Achilles" is origineel opgenomen in veel kortere versie met The Band in New York in 1965 met de titel "Medicine Sunday". Dylan was hier niet tevreden over en nam het opnieuw op in Nashville, Tennessee in 1966.

BLONDE ON BLONDE (BOB DYLAN) P.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Blonde on Blonde, is de zevende plaat van Bob Dylan, een dubbelelpee (vermoedelijk de eerste in de pophistorie), die werd geproduceerd door Bob Johnston en opgenomen in Nashville, Tennessee. Het album verscheen in het voorjaar van 1966. Blonde on Blonde wordt gerekend tot Dylan's beste werk, sommigen beschouwen het als Dylans absolute meesterwerk: op de List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Times bezet Blonde on Blonde veelzeggend plaats nummer 9.
Blonde on Blonde steeg in de Verenigde Staten destijds tot nummer negen op de Billboard's Pop Albums chart; in Engeland kwam het album terecht op de derde plaats.

 TRACK 1
Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35 ( Woodstock 1994)


"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is de openingstrack van dit hele mooie album Blonde on Blonde. het is de enige song van het album met brassband als begeleiding.
"They'll stone you" in elk complet van de song, plus het refreine "Well, I would not feel so all alone--everybody must get stoned!"was aanleiding voor verschillende Amerikaanse radiostations en deBBC het nummer te verbannen. Ze beschouwden het als een "drugsong":

TRACK 2
Pledging my Time (Indiana 1997)
.

Blonde on Blonde is na Bringing It All Back Home en Highway 61 Revisited, allebei uit 1965, Dylans derde album met dat hoogsttypische dylanachtige rock en roll geluid. Op het album horen sommigen een jazz-achtige invloed doorklinken, hetgeen kan worden toegeschreven aan het stel doorgewinterde studio-muzikanten, die overigens een essentieel aandeel hebben in de sfeer van de twee platen.

TRACK 3
Visions of Johanna (1966)
.
.De originele titel van de song was "Seems Like a Freeze Out"; studio opnames van Blonde on Blonde's' eerste New York sessions, uitgebracht op een bootleg,hebben een veel sneller tempo.

Er zijn verschillende theorieen wie of wat er metJohanna bedoelt is:
1 Het gaat over Joan Baez 2 Het heeft verband met "Gehenna" en "Ge-Hinnom", een Hebreeuws woord voor hel.3 Vincent van Gogh'schoonzus Johanna Gezina van Gogh (Bonger), die mede verantwoordelijk was voor de uiteindelijke totstandkoming van Vincent's als belangrijk kunstenaar.4 Johanna verwijst naar ''oneindig'' of naar'' god'' 5 Het verwijst naar een gedicht van William Blake's "On the Virginity of the Virgin Mary & Johanna Southcott".

TRACK 4
One of us must Know(sooner of later)
.

Blonde on Blonde wordt door velen beschouwd als het absolute culminatiepunt binnen Dylans komeetachtige ontwikkeling als jaren zestig popmuzikant. Het album vormt de afsluiting van een immer creatievere, surrealistische en rockende Bob Dylan. De artiest dreigt in deze tijd -zowel voor als na de opnames voor Blonde on Blonde- en ondanks of juist mede dankzij de speed, uitgeput te raken en elk moment uit de bocht te vliegen.

TRACK 5
I want You (9-july 1998 Collegno Torino)
.

"I Want You" is een van de weinige songs waar nu eens niet door de recenten over werd gediscuseerd.Maar het was wel een van zijn meest succesvolle singles.

Medewerkers

• Bob Dylan - Gitaar, Harmonica, Piano, Keyboards, Zang
• Al Kooper - Orgel, Gitaar, Hoorn (muziekinstrument), Keyboards
• Robbie Robertson - Gitaar, Zang
• Joe South - Gitaar
• Rick Danko - Basgitaar, Viool, Zang
• Bill Atkins - Keyboards
• Wayne Butler - Trombone
• Kenneth A. Buttrey - Drums
• Paul Griffin - Piano
• Amy Herot - Reissue Producer
• Garth Hudson - Keyboards, Saxofoon
• Bob Johnston - Producer
• Jerry Kennedy - Gitaar
• Sanford Konikoff - Drums
• Richard Manuel - Drums, Keyboards, Zang
• Wayne Moss - Gitaar, Zang
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins - Piano, Keyboards
• Henry Strzelecki - Basgitaar
• Mark Wilder - Remixing, Remastering
• Charlie McCoy - Basgitaar, Gitaar, Harmonica, Trompet

Bob Dylan & The Band - Forever Young

Het 'afscheidsconcert' van The Band, de legendarische groep die zowel als 'the band' van Bob Dylan furore maakte, als op eigen houtje. Het concert vond plaats op 25 november 1976 in San Francisco. The Band (Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel en Robbie Robertson) trad op met een pleiade van 'special guests', onder wie Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Bobby Charles en Neil Young. De concertbeelden worden aangevuld met interviews van Scorsese met de Band-leden. Voor mij een van de hoogtepunten..

"Forever Young" is recorded in California in November 1973. The song first appeared (in two different versions, a slow and a fast) on Dylan's 1974 album Planet Waves.

Bob Dylan - Lonesome Death of Hatty Carroll (Montfort Hall Leicester 2Mei 1965)

 Het was een geruchtmakende zaak in 1963,de 27 jarige (blanke) William Devereux "Billy" Zantzinger sloeg de (zwarte)barkeepster Hattie Carroll onder het roepen van rasistische kreten op haar hoofd omdat hij vond dat hij niet snel genoeg geholpen werd.
De vrouw kwam te overlijden en Billy werd veroordeeld tot 6 maanden gevangenisstraf.
Belachelijk kort natuurlijk ,maar de oorzaak was waarschijnlijk dat Zantzinger behoorde tot de rijkere ,,upperclass,,Bob Dylan schreef al snel naar aanleiding van deze zaak dit nummer nam het ook gelijk op in zijn live repetoire. In 1964 nam hij het op voor het Album "The Times They Are a-Changin'"


Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'
And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

William Zanzinger who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarling
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchen
She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn't even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level
Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
That sailed through the air and came down through the room
Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle
And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger
And you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
And that ladder of law has no top and no bottom
Stared at the person who killed for no reason
Who just happened to be feelin' that way witout warnin'
And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished
And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance
William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fearsv
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now's the time for your tears.


Hattie Carroll

The story of Hattie Carroll(wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Death_of_Hattie_Carroll

Bob Dylan - The Usual (The Town House, Studio 2, London, UK; August 27-28, 1986)

    
Hearts of Fire is a 1987 American musical drama film starring Bob Dylan, Fiona Flanagan (billed only as "Fiona") and Rupert Everett. The film was essentially a vehicle for Dylan based on his success as a rock musician. It received poor reviews, a limited theatrical release and was later written off by Dylan himself.

 Rehearsels for de soundtrack.
Bob Dylan: vocals: acoustic guitar-Eric Clapton: lead guitar-Ron Wood : electric guitar
Kip Winger : bass-Henry Spinetti : drums



 In 1987, Columbia Records released the soundtrack to the film. Dylan was apparently originally contracted to write and contribute four new original recordings to the album, but would only turn in two original songs and one cover tune. The tracks included a cover of John Hiatt's "The Usual," along with the Dylan originals "Night After Night" and "Had a Dream About You Baby." Dylan would later release an alternate version of "Had a Dream About You Baby" on the 1988 album Down in the Groove.

 

Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (Isle of White - Aug.1969)

Thanks to rumours that one or all of The Beatles would be joining him on stage,Dylan's comeback show had now been, in the words of music journalist John Harris, "inflated into the gig of the decade". On 31 August, a nervous Bob Dylan arrived on stage in a cream suit recalling Hank Williams, with a haircut and a short beard.

Backed by The Band, he performed recent pieces from his Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding albums as well as countryfied versions of earlier songs such as "Maggie's Farm", "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Like a Rolling Stone"− much to the surprise and consternation of the audience and the throng of journalists. Levon Helm later commented: "Bob had an extra list of songs with about eight or ten different titles ... that we would've gone ahead and done had it seemed like the right thing to do. But it seemed like everyone was a bit tired ... the festival was three days old by then."


Bob Dylan - IThrew It All Away (Isle of White... door  morrisanddylan

  John Lennon opined that Dylan's performance was reasonable, though slightly flat; and that the audience was "waiting for Godot or Jesus". Eric Clapton was mesmerized, however, having already been inspired back to blues and country post-Cream by Dylan's change of musical direction and by The Band's album Music From Big Pink. "Dylan was fantastic," Clapton later said. "He changed everything ... [The audience] couldn't understand it. You had to be a musician to understand it." Another vocal champion of The Band and avowed Dylan fan, George Harrison wrote a country song inspired by the event and dedicated to Dylan, "Behind That Locked Door", later released on his All Things Must Pass triple album. Folk singer Tom Paxton has referred to the "negative reaction in the British press", including "downright fabrications: like saying he had run off stage half-way through. ... I went with him and The Beatles to the farmhouse where he was clearly in a merry mood because he had felt it had gone so well ... The Beatles had brought a test pressing of Abbey Road and we listened to it and had quite a party."(Wikipedia)

Bob Dylan - If Dogs Run Free ( New Morning)

 New Morning is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on October 19, 1970 by Columbia Records.

                                          If Dogs Run Free

 Dylan discusses the recording of New Morning at length in one chapter of his autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. 1. Several alternate, preliminary forms of the album have been documented, including tracks which later appeared on the 1973 Dylan. He has played only four of the album's twelve songs in concert; one, "If Dogs Run Free", made its live debut on October 1, 2000, within weeks of the 30th anniversary of the album's original release


  If dogs run free, then why not we
Across the swooping plain?
My ears hear a symphony
Of two mules, trains and rain
The best is always yet to come
That’s what they explain to me
Just do your thing, you’ll be king
If dogs run free

If dogs run free, why not me
Across the swamp of time?
My mind weaves a symphony
And tapestry of rhyme
Oh, winds which rush my tale to thee
So it may flow and be
To each his own, it’s all unknown
If dogs run free

If dogs run free, then what must be
Must be, and that is all
True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall
In harmony with the cosmic sea
True love needs no company
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole
If dogs run free

Bob Dylan & Susan Tedeschi - November 20, 1999 Newark, Delaware, USA

De altijd goedlachse Susan ,en een bijzonder vrolijke Bob Dylan.Mooie beelden!

Highway 61 Revisited


 
 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings

 During Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline sessions country legend Johnny Cash stopped by to visit. A friend and label-mate of Dylan's as well as an early supporter of his music, Cash had been recording next door with his own band. The two wound up recording a series of duets, covering Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" as well as Cash's own "I Still Miss Someone." None of these were deemed usable, but Cash returned the following day to record more duets.

"One Too Many Mornings" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964.

 Down the street the dogs are barkin’
And the day is a-gettin’ dark
As the night comes in a-fallin’
The dogs’ll lose their bark
An’ the silent night will shatter
From the sounds inside my mind
For I’m one too many mornings
And a thousand miles behind

From the crossroads of my doorstep
My eyes they start to fade
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid
An’ I gaze back to the street
The sidewalk and the sign
And I’m one too many mornings
An’ a thousand miles behind

It’s a restless hungry feeling
That don’t mean no one no good
When ev’rything I’m a-sayin’
You can say it just as good.
You’re right from your side
I’m right from mine
We’re both just one too many mornings
An’ a thousand miles behind

Bob Dylan - It,s All Over Now , Baby Bleu

                                                Ostseehalle, Kiel ,Germany 25-July-1994

 Never-Ending Tour Band: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar), John Jackson (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), Winston Watson (drums & percussion).

      "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his Bringing It All Back Home album, released on March 22, 1965 by Columbia Records (see 1965 in music). The song was recorded on January 15, 1965 with Dylan's acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. Lee's bass guitar the only instrumentation. The lyrics were heavily influenced by Symbolist poetry and bid farewell to the titular "Baby Blue." There has been much speculation about the real life identity of "Baby Blue", with possibilities including Joan Baez, David Blue, Paul Clayton, Dylan's folk music audience, and even Dylan himself

Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Like A Rolling Stone (Newcastle - May 21 -1966)

   The Bob Dylan World 1966 take place from February to May 1966. Dylan,s 1966 tour was notable as the first tour where Dylan employed an electric band backing him,following his"going electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival

     Like A Rolling Stone

The musicians Dylan employed as his backingband were known as The Hawks,the subsequently became famous as The Band

Rick Danko (bass guitar, vocals) Garth Hudson (keyboards), Richard Manuel (keyboards), Robbie Robertson (guitar, vocals),Micky Jones (drums)

Bob Dylan - Roll On,John (John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)

                                          Roll On,John
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                                     “Shine your light, Movin' on, You burned so bright, Roll on, John.”

John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)