Yee haw. Genre of the week for song Lyric Sunday this time is ‘country’. I think I have a basic understanding of what that is. However, on further reflection there is a whole range of sub-genres, as with last week’s ‘Metal’ (but not like metal obviously). I would not say that I’m a great fan…
Our task this week, should we choose to accept it, is to post a song by an artiste who has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. magazine. When I was at university at the beginning of the seventies, I had a subscription to Rolling Stone. Obviously, back then it was a print subscription and…
Maintaining last week’s sartorial theme, today’s Song Lyric Sunday is all about footwear and led me to this tale of romantic angst from Bob Dylan’s third studio album, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’, released in January 1964. As with ZZ Top, I also saw Dylan at the old Wembley Arena back in the nineties. He…
The Book of Revelation’s four horsemen of the apocalypse – war, pestilence, famine and death – constitute the cheery theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week. My first thought was this very early classic by Bob Dylan, released on the ‘Freewhelin’ album in 1963. Although I would only have been about eleven or twelve at…
‘Blood On The Tracks’, released in 1975, is widely considered to be one of Dylan’s finest studio albums and this is certainly one of the highlights. In the accompanying video here it’s performed by the Jerry Garcia Band in a gentle stretched-out version – ideal for a Sunday morning. Jerry died on August 9th 1995.…
This week’s topic for Song Lyric Sunday is breaking up. Famously hard to do – according to Carole King at any rate – and (almost) always a sad occasion: one that can generate overwhelming emotions of grief and misery in the party on the receiving end, as it were. However, here it’s Dylan doing the…
Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week is looking for a sense of place, be it town or city – or, indeed, country. In the week of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, this strikes me as an appropriate choice. It was the second track on the ‘Freewheelin’ album that was released almost exactly 58 years ago this…
Jim’s called his overarching theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday ‘spouse in the house’. However, one of his key words is ‘lover’ (which obviously isn’t mutually exclusive). The highlighted lines in these Bob Dylan lyrics were the first thing that came into my head. Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby, Can’t buy a…
The four elements of the ancient world provide the prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. This song by Bob Dylan, in conjunction with Rick Danko of The Band, appeared on The Basement Tapes in the mid-seventies, but is probably more familiar – at least in the UK – in the 1968 version by Julie…
In much the same way as last week’s Song Lyric Sunday threw up a multitude of possibilities for John or Jack, this week’s prompt of Mary and its various derivatives offers no shortage of potential offerings. I toyed with The Who’s ‘Mary Ann With The Shaky Hands’ ‘and Hendrix’ ‘The Wind Cries Mary’, but finally…
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