Yes, I shall be giving Dylan's festive offering its annual spin.
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I was playing it in the car yesterday, gurney. I love Bob's take on 'Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas' with the Ditty Bops on backing vocals...he creates a timing all his own. A Christmas cracker.Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostYes, I shall be giving Dylan's festive offering its annual spin.
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Amazing that ‘Christmas In The Heart’ came out 15 years ago.Originally posted by gurnemanz View PostYes, I shall be giving Dylan's festive offering its annual spin.
Here’s ‘Must Be Santa’ which should have been a Christmas No. 1!
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Ahead of the UK release next week of 'A Complete Unknown', Smithsonian Folkways have posted a Bob-related playlist with accompanying essay from Elijah Wald, the author of 'Dylan Goes Electric', the book that the film is based on.
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Many thanks, jc - will have to read the Elijah Wald book.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Here’s an article in The Observer today about Dylan, the film & gen Z!
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In a chazza the other day I picked up a copy of Bob's first record for a quid. Funnily enough I don't think I've ever had a copy of it.
This is almost my favourite track on the CD - bet Bob couldn't perform 'Freight Train Blues' like this these days. Great moothie and wonderful energy.
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I bought that album when it first came out, mainly because Jazz Monthly of all things, lauded him as an intriguing white blues singer, or words to that effect. From fading memory the track I liked was "Man of Constant Sorrow" and the Everley Bros riff thing, "Highway 51"? Not too convinced by Bob's other blues though.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostIn a chazza the other day I picked up a copy of Bob's first record for a quid. Funnily enough I don't think I've ever had a copy of it. This is almost my favourite track on the CD - bet Bob couldn't perform 'Freight Train Blues' like this these days. Great moothie and wonderful energy.
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I still have that copy of Jazz Monthly with the Bob Dylan article which persuaded me to buy his first album.Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
I can remember playing it constantly on my Dansette!
Here’s his powerful version of ‘House Of The Risin’ Sun’:
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I understand that It was the Animals HoRS that influenced Dylan to write Like a Rolling Stone and thence to go electric.Originally posted by Jazzrook View Post
I still have that copy of Jazz Monthly with the Bob Dylan article which persuaded me to buy his first album.
I can remember playing it constantly on my Dansette!
Here’s his powerful version of ‘House Of The Risin’ Sun’:
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Wasn't there a big stramash in the Animals because only Alan Price got the credit for the arrangement and got all the royalties for 'House of the Rising Sun'?Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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The House of the Rising Sun appears in the film, A Complete Unknown, which we've just seen. A nice rendition by Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez (not sounding quite like her, but who could?)
I remember quite clearly the first time Bob Dylan really grabbed me. I was a teenager at school, (boys grammar). Someone brought in a Dylan LP and asked the music teacher if some of us could listen to it in the music room at lunch time.Comment
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Woody Guthrie’s 1941 version of ‘House of the Rising Sun’:
& Dave Van Ronk’s version:
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I believe so and may well have been a contributary factor to Price’s departure - I saw an Animals at Truro a few years ago - only original member John Steel, drums - keyboard player Mick Gallagher who temporarily replaced Price at very short notice in 1965 ( his subsequent cv includes being a Blockhead) for a gig in Norway which Price had declined to do.Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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