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- “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)” (1978) 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.”
- “John Wesley Harding” (1967) “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.”
- “Corrina, Corrina” (1963) "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.
- “Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)” (1978) 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.
- Blowin’ In The Wind.
- Like A Rolling Stone.
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.
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 in their...
- ‘Every Grain of Sand’ Shot of Love, 1981. “It’s like one of the great Psalms of David,” Bono says about “Every Grain of Sand,” the spellbinding ballad from Shot of Love that concludes Dylan‘s overtly Christian songwriting phase.
- ‘Visions of Johanna’ Blonde On Blonde, 1966. “Visions of Johanna” is a tour de force, a breakthrough not only for the writer but for the very possibilities of songwriting.
- ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ Bringing It All Back Home, 1965. As far as I can tell, the Byrds‘ recording of “Mr. Tambourine Man” was the first time anyone put really good poetry on the radio The Beatles hadn’t gotten to “Eleanor Rigby” or “A Day in the Life” — they were still writing “Ooh, baby.”
- ‘It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’ Bringing It All Back Home, 1965. “I don’t know how I got to write those songs,” Dylan said in 2004, apropos of “It’s Alright, Ma.”
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- Bob Dylan’s Storytelling in Song
“All the great performers had something in their eyes,” Bob Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One. “It was that ‘I know something you don’t know.’ And I wanted to be that kind of performer.” That ability to capture the zeitgeist was evident even in the song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” one of his first and enduring masterpieces, written w...
Although Bob Dylan joked in 1965 that “all I ever do is protest,” he was naturally wary of being labeled as a “protest singer.” What Dylan has always been is an uncompromising moralist. He remained unafraid of tackling issues of social injustice throughout his long career. “Hurricane,” the first single from his 1976 album Desire, one co-written wit...
Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blondeare three of the greatest albums in the pop music canon, and they were released in the space of just 15 months in 1965 and 1966. Bob Dylan has a long history of writing affecting songs about love and relationships, including “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” from the first of this t...
Bob Dylan was raised in a religious Jewish home, and spirituality has been a major theme in his work. “I have a God-given sense of destiny. This is what I was put on earth to do,” said Dylan in 2001. One survey of 246 original songs he wrote between 1961 and 1978, including the striking “God on Our Side” (an evisceration of how religion was used to...
Bob Dylan’s voice is utterly distinctive: a plangent, high, lonesome, nasal twang that became his first identifying thumbprint from the early 60s. Dylan has known isolation in his personal life. In 1967, following a terrible crash on his Triumph motorbike, the singer withdrew to Woodstock, New York, where he later worked with Robbie Robertson and T...
One of the most remarkable aspects of Bob Dylan’s remarkable song repertoire is its breadth and depth. Dylan has recorded songs from so many genres, including folk, blues, rock, pop, gospel, country, and the Great American Songbook. He has also worked with a wide variety of musicians, including Jacques Levy, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, and Gratefu...
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Nov 25, 2023 · Dylan penned only two original songs for his debut album: "Song to Woody" and "Talkin' New York." The 11 covers are important to his development, but it's the originals, and "Song to Woody" in...
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Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits. Album • 1967. 10 songs • 40 minutes. Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is a 1967 compilation album of songs by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Released on March 27,...
