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May 24, 2020 · From the Sixties protest anthems that made him a star through to his noirish Nineties masterpieces and beyond, no other contemporary songwriter has produced such a vast and profound body of work:...
- 10 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs
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- 10 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs
Playlist with the 100 greatest songs by Bob Dylan, in order from 1 to 100, according to the list made by Rolling Stone magazine. All songs (from Dylan's official Youtube channel) are...
- “Señor
- “John Wesley Harding”
- “Corrina, Corrina”
- “Where Are You Tonight?
- “Farewell, Angelina”
- “On A Night Like This”
- “Highlands”
- “Pay in Blood”
- “Going, Going, Gone”
- “You’re A Big Girl Now”
Dylan said this baffling-yet-haunting country-rock epic was inspired by a man he saw on a train ride from Mexico to San Diego: “He must have been 150 years old… Both his eyes were burning, and there was smoke coming out of his nostrils.” Sounds rough. But, hey, at least the guy got to meet Bob Dylan.
“I was gonna write a ballad,” Dylan told Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner. “Like maybe one of those old cowboy [songs]… you know, a real long ballad.” Instead, the title track on his 1967 album was a taut parable about outlaw morality. John Wesley Hardin was a late-19th-century badman, but Dylan’s evocation of a “friend to the poor” who “was never known...
“Corrina, Corrina” is an early example of Dylan’s ability to place folk music in a wider pop tradition, and vice versa. The song had been a blues and country standard, under various titles for decades, recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Chet Atkins, Big Joe Turner and teen crooner Ray Peterson, among others, usually as a fun dance tune. Dylan does ...
The last track on a Dylan album is often a kind of preview of his next record – check the way John Wesley Harding‘s “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” is a trailer for the country sound of Nashville Skyline. The elegiac “Where Are You Tonight?” ends Street Legal by foretelling the conversion to Christianity that began on 1979’s Slow Train Coming. “I could...
This outtake from Bringing It All Back Home contains some of Dylan’s most evocative lyrics, a pileup of images that includes dancing elves, King Kong, cross-eyed pirates, 52 gypsies, a sky that’s “flooding over” and fiends who “nail time bombs/To the hands of the clocks.” But it’s also a beautifully sung goodbye song to a girl – and maybe also to D...
This song kicks off Planet Waves – his reunion with the Band – on a rollicking, high-spirited note. As a galloping rhythm and a cantina accordion egg him on, Dylan sounds so giddy he can’t quite talk straight – especially when he instructs his lover to “heat up some coffee grounds.” Conjuring a snowbound cabin scene, “On a Night Like This” recalls ...
Many of Dylan’s greatest albums end with an epic that takes up the entire side of a record, and “Highlands” is the most epic of them all. Over the course of 16 minutes, Dylan talks to a waitress, orders softboiled eggs, name-checks Erica Jong and Neil Young and laments that life is passing him by. “All the young men with their young women looking s...
Dylan said he had planned to record his first religious album in years before heading into Jackson Browne’s L.A. studio with his touring band in early 2012. Instead, he kicked off the sixth decade of his career with Tempest, a brutally intense record steeped in a specifically American strain of violence and tragedy. “Pay in Blood” is swaggering and...
Despite all the mythology surrounding Dylan’s work with the Band, he only actually recorded a single album with them. Cut in Los Angeles over four frantic days in 1973, Planet Waves varies from light, vigorous tunes like “You Angel You” to the brooding, aptly titled “Dirge.” The album’s high point, “Going, Going, Gone,” is a wearily elegant intimat...
Is there a more desperately lovesick moment in Dylan’s entire catalog than the point in this Blood on the Tracks gem when he croons, “I can change, I swear,” and then howls like a wounded dog? Maybe only later in the same song, when he talks of “pain that stops and starts, like a corkscrew to my heart.” Dylan’s stunning first pass at this, the hush...
Mar 31, 2015 · Full Rolling Stone Articlehttp://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-greatest-bob-dylan-songs-20110511Bob Dylan (/ˈdɪlən/; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, M...
Aug 15, 2012 · Bob Dylan’s Greatest Songs of the 1980s. 20 songs worth hearing from Dylan's most overlooked decade. By Rolling Stone. August 15, 2012. Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. The 1980s...
