Bob Dylan's cover of Van Morrison's "Carrying a Torch,"

                                                    November 17, 2002, Hartford, CT.

"Carrying a Torch"  written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released on his 1991 double album, Hymns to the Silence

 
 

Bob Dylan-Wheels On Fire ( Basement Tapes)

"This Wheel's on Fire" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko. It was originally recorded by Dylan and the Band during their 1967 sessions, portions of which (including this song) comprised the 1975 album The Basement Tapes 

Danko recounted how the song was written: "We would come together every day and work and Dylan would come over. He gave me the typewritten lyrics to 'This Wheel's On Fire'. At that time I was teaching myself to play the piano.... Some music I had written on the piano the day before just seemed to fit with Dylan's lyrics. I worked on the phrasing and the melody. Then Dylan and I wrote the chorus together."

 

Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings (Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany, Okt 1 2000)

 Bob Dylan (vocal, guitar, harmonica), Charlie Sexton (guitar), Larry Campbell (guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), David Kemper (drums & percussion).

""One Too Many Mornings" is  released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964

 

 

Bob Dylan - I,ll Keep It With Mine (Outtake "Blonde On Blonde")

 Spread over a period of six months, two weeks were spent recording "Blonde On Blonde". The sessions  delivered only four outtakes, including this "I'll Keep It With Mine".

             with Robbie Robertson/guitar.Al Kooper/organ.Rick Danko/bass.Bobby Gregg/drums
 Written for Judy Collins, she later released it as a single. Nico, the singer of Velvet Underground, also included it on her solo album Chelsea Girl.

This version was recorded during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions. Bob plays piano and harmonica.

The song was never on the set list and is only known as a live version from the documentary "65 Revisted" about his 1965 British tour.(Bob Dylan Complete)
                                                                  
 

                                           Blonde On Blonde Part One

          https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2016/10/blonde-on-blonde-bob-dylan-p1.html

                                          Blonde On Blonde  Part two

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2016/10/bob-dylanss-blonde-on-blonde-p2-live.html

Bob Dylan - "Golden Loom" ( Outtake "Desire")

 "Golden Gloom" is entirely Dylan's work. That's probably why the song wasn't selected for "Desire," which is primarily a collaboration with Jacques Levy.(Bob Dylan complete)

   Bob Dylan,vocal/guitar/harmonica.Emmylou Harris,vocals.Scarlet Rivera,violin.Rob Stoner bass.Howard Wyeth,drums.Sheena Sendeberg ,congas

                                  Columbia Recording Studios New York 30     July 1975

Golden Loom

Smoky autumn night, stars up in the sky
I see the sailin’ boats across the bay go by
Eucalyptus trees hang above the street
And then I turn my head, for you’re approachin’ me
Moonlight on the water, fisherman’s daughter, floatin’ in to my room
With a golden loom

First we wash our feet near the immortal shrine
And then our shadows meet and then we drink the wine
I see the hungry clouds up above your face
And then the tears roll down, what a bitter taste
And then you drift away on a summer’s day where the wildflowers bloom
With your golden loom

I walk across the bridge in the dismal light
Where all the cars are stripped between the gates of night
I see the trembling lion with the lotus flower tail
And then I kiss your lips as I lift your veil
But you’re gone and then all I seem to recall is the smell of perfume
And your golden loom

Bob Dylan - Nobody 'Cept You (Outtake Planet Waves)

 During the session for "Planet Waves," a song was recorded that didn't appear on the album. Bob chose "Wedding Song" as the closing track (a great song, by the way). Love triumphs over reggae...? (Bob Dylan complete)

Bob Dylan ,vocals/guitar.Robby Robertson,guitar,Richard Manuel,keys.Garth Hudson,keys.Rick Danko,bass.Levon Helm,drums.

         Recorded at The Village Recorder,West Los Angeles California 2-5 November 1973.

 Nobody  'Cept You

 Nothing 'round here to me that's sacred
'Cept you, yeah you
There's nothing round here to me that matters
'Cept you, yeah you
You're the one that reaches me
You're the one that I admire
Every time we meet together
I feel like I'm on fire
Nothing matters to me
And there's nothing I desire
'Cept you, yeah you

Nothing 'round here I care to try for
'Cept you, yeah you
Got nothing here to live or die for
'Cept you, yeah you
There's a hymn I used to hear
In the churches all the time
Make me feel so good inside
So peaceful, so sublime
And there's nothing that reminds me of that
Old familiar chime
Except you, uh huh you

Used to run in the cemetery
Dance and run and sing when I was a child
And it never seemed strange
Now I just pass mournfully
By that place where the bones of life are piled
I know somethin' has changed

I'm a stranger here and no one sees me
'Cept you, yeah you
Nothing anymore seems to please me
'Cept you, yeah you
Nothing hypnotizes me
Or holds me in a spell
Everything runs by me
Just like water from a well
Everybody wants my attention
Everybody got something to sell
'Cept you, yeah you
I'm in love with you.

More Bob

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Bob Dylan - The MTV Unplugged Rehearsels (complete)

 

                                                       Sony Studios-New York 1994

Bob Dylan (acoustic guitar), John Jackson (acoustic guitar), Brendan O’Brien (organ), Tony Garnier (bass), Winston Watson (drums & percussion).

	I Want You- Tombstone Blues-I Want You-Don't Think Twice, It's All Right -Desolation Row -Hazel-Everything Is Broken-The Times They Are A-Changin' -Love Minus Zero/No Limit -Dignity -With God On Our Side
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Review by CultFollowing	https://cultfollowing.co.uk/2025/04/18/bob-dylan-the-mtv-unplugged-rehearsals-review/

Bob Dylan -Carnegie Chapter Hall (Nov.4-1961)

 

53 tickets were sold for the concert, while the hall could have held 200. "Billed as Dylan's 'First New York Concert' it was, more accurately, Dylan's first concert anywhere. Prior to this show he'd only played club dates and a few guest spots on multi-artist bills. Dylan arrived in New York on January, 21, 1961 and began playing hoots at clubs like Gerdes Folk City almost immediately

Bob Dylan performed 22 songs at the Chapter Hall concert on 4 November 1961. The first seven songs were already into circulation among collectors when five additional songs appeared in December 2004; a further two (Talking Merchant Marine and Talking New York) turned up in May 2008.
     He Was A Friend Of Mine surfaced in November 2021, sixty years after the concert, when the tape of the performance was purchased by the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa.

Setlist:

       Pretty Peggy-O

       In the Pines  

       Gospel Plow  

       1913 Massacre  

       Backwater Blues  

       A Long Time A-Growin'  

       Fixin' to Die  

       San Francisco Bay Blues *

       Riding In My Car  *

       Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues  

       Man On The Street  

       Sally Girl  *

       This Land Is Your Land  

       Talking Merchant Marine (Talking Sailor)  

       Black Cross  

       He Was A Friend Of Mine  

       Pretty Polly *

       House of the Rising Sun  *

       The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird *

       Freight Train Blues  

       Song To Woody  

       Talkin' New York  

 Many Thanks to:

 https://www.bobdylan-comewritersandcritics.com/index.html

The Early Days

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/10/bob-dylan-early-days1961-1962.html

Isle Of White

 https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2013/09/bob-dylan-i-threw-it-all-away-live-at.html

More Bob....

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Bob Dylan (feat.Billy Strings) - “All Along The Watchtower”

                     Outlaw Music Festival One Spokane Stadium Spokane, WA May 22, 2025

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song by  Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding.

                                                          More Bob on Arthur,s Musical Journey....

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Bob Dylan - That Lucky Old Sun

                               Rehearsels for Live Aid 1985 with TomPetty & The Heartbreakers

"That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie

 The biggest hit version of the song was by Frankie Laine. This recording was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5316. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on August 19, 1949, and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 1

A 2015 USA Today article ranking "every Bob Dylan song" placed "That Lucky Old Sun" 56th (out of 359), calling it "[t]he highlight of Dylan’s surprisingly great album of classics from the American songbook". Critic Ray Padgett also considers "That Lucky Old Sun" to be the highlight of Shadows in the Night (as well as the best of all 52 of the songs that appear on Dylan's American Songbook albums)
 

Bob Dylan - 'North Country Blues'

                                  Newport Folk Festival in Newport Rhode Island - July 27th 1963 

 "North Country Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964.

This appearance was Dylan’s first of three consecutive turns headlining Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1965.

Bob Dylan and Bobby Vee

                                      

On July 10, 2013 - The Americanarama Tour hit St. Paul Minnesota's Midway Stadium with Richard Thompson, My Morning Jacket, Wilco and Bob Dylan.  Towards the end of Dylan's set, the Bard of Hibbing waxed nostalgic about an early chapter in his career when he played piano with Bobby Vee's band The Shadows in 1959.  Indeed it was his first paying gig.  Vee who recently retired from performing after an Alzheimers diagnosis was in the audience and was invited up next to the soundboard for this tribute and the two men caught up with each other after the show.  A mutual admiration society to be sure and just magic to witness.         

As Bobby's son-in-law I had access to some old Shadows images and decided to mash them up with two of the handheld videos floating around YouTube. Thanks to FallenManWildMercury Films and Harry Cane - I hope you don't mind my cutting your two videos into one.  You caught a rare and heartfelt moment that Minnesota music writers have called one of the standout moments of 2013.  Thank you - and obviously no copyright infringement intended.

                                        

Robert Thomas Velline
30 april 1943, Fargo, North Dakota                                                  24 oktober 2016, Rogers, Minnesota

Bob Dylan feat.Elvin Bishop - Early Roman Kings

                                                        3rd August 2024 - Outlaw Festival in Mountain View

                                                                film by Mark Casserly

Bob Dylan performing 'Early Roman Kings' during the 2024 Outlaw Music Festival concert on Saturday August 3rd at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California 🇺🇸 Dylan was joined on stage by guest guitarist Elvin Bishop, formerly of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

 

Bob Dylan feat.Ry Cooder &Van Dyke Parks - Vigilante Man. 2009.

          From a 2009 program honoring Woody Guthrie titled "The People Speak" in 2009, BOB DYLAN, RY COODER and VAN DYKE PARKS perform the Woody Guthrie song Vigilante Man

"Vigilante Man" is a song by Woody Guthrie, recorded and released in 1940 as one of his Dust Bowl Ballads.[1] The song is about the hired thugs ("vigilantes") who would violently chase away migrants to California trying to escape the Dust Bowl, a man-made ecological catastrophe in the American Great Plains during the 1930s. One verse refers to the murder of Preacher (Jim) Casy, a central figure in John Steinbecks' 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath(Wikipedia)

                                       American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
 

Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate

                                                        Edinburgh Scotland,6th April 1995

                                         Simple Twist of Fate (album Blood In The tracks)

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Bucky Baxter (pedal steel guitar & electric slide guitar), John Jackson     (guitar), Tony Garnier (bass), Winston Watson (drums & percussion).

                                       

                        https://arthurfromholland.blogspot.com/2010/08/blood-on-tracks.html

Bob Dylan and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Rehearsels Farm Aid 1985

This 20 or so minutes of rehearsal footage is extremely fun to watch, and features Bob playing a bunch of covers he never performed on stage alongside a handful of originals. 

Read the whole story.....  https://www.flaggingdown.com/p/bob-dylan-and-tom-pettys-farm-aid

                                                               The songs perfomed

    “What’d I Say.” (Ray Charles) “Baby What You Want Me To Do.” (Jimmy Reed) “Shake”

“Louie Louie”  (The Kingsman)“Then He Kissed Me”(The Crystals) with Peggi Blu.Insrumental.

  “That Lucky Old Sun”? 

                                                                More  Bob.........

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Bob Dylan - Forgetful Heart (nice version)

                                                                      Manchester 2011

   Forgetful Heart written by Robert Hunter & Bob Dylan (Album Together Trough Live)

Bob Dylan - SimpleTwist Of Faith

 

                                              Outlaw Festival San Diego 2024 07-29

        

                                film by    Joel Yancey  Simple Twist Of Faith 

 "Simple Twist of Fate", was recorded on September 19, 1974, and was released in 1975 as the second song on his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks. 

 

 

                                      

Bob Dylan - Train Of Love (Johnny Cash Tribute- 1999)

“Hey Johnny, I wanna say Hi and I’m sorry we can’t be there, but that’s just the way it is. I wanna sing you one of your songs about trains. I used to sing this song before I ever wrote a song and I also wanna thank you for standing up for me way back when.”

The video of this performance from the rehearsals for the European tour was shown as part of "The Johnny Cash" tribute show at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City 6 April 1999.

 As for the song itself, the single by Johnny Cash reached number one on the “Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes chart” from Billboard.

Here are the lyrics…

Train of love’s a-comin’, big black wheels a-hummin’
People waitin’ at the station, happy hearts are drummin’
Trainman tell me maybe, ain’t you got my baby
Every so often everybody’s baby gets the urge to roam
But everybody’s baby but mine’s comin’ home.

Now stop your whistle blowin’, ’cause I got ways of knowin’
Your bringin’ other people’s lovers, but my own keeps goin’
Train of love’s deceivin’, when she’s not gone she’s leavin’
Every so often everybody’s baby gets the urge to roam
But everybody’s baby but mine’s comin’ home

Train of love’s now hastin’, sweethearts standin’ waitin’
Here and there and everywhere, there’s going to be embracin’
Trainman tell me maybe, ain’t you got my baby
Every so often everybody’s baby gets the urge to roam
But everybody’s baby but mine’s comin’ home

Train of love’s a-leavin’, leavin’ my heart grievin’
But early or late, I sit and wait, because I’m still believin’
We’ll walk away together, though I may wait forever
Every so often everybody’s baby gets the urge to roam
But everybody’s baby but mine’s comin’ home

 

Bob Dylan &The Dead - Ballad Of A Thin Man

                                         04 JUL1987 - Sullivan Stadium - Foxboro, MA

"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, and released in 1965 on his sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited.

Bob Dylan -guitar/vocals ,Jerry Carcia - leadguitar/vocals,Bob Weir - guitar/vocals,Brent Mydland - keyboards/vocals,
Phil Less - bass,Micky Hart -drums,Bill Kreutzmann - drums.