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You are so open, generous and attentive in your listening. It's so good to watch. I was a kid in the Dylan heyday years, say 63 through 75. I grew up with that music, it changed who I am as a person, and it changed the trajectory of my life. It is amazing to have your perspective on this music I love so much.! Thank you.
Thank You for another heartfelt reaction. The think that l appreciate about Dylan’s music is him playing the harmonica as often as he does in his songs. You just don’t hear that in Rock music. But then again we are talking about Bob Dylan!!!!
From Dylan's 15th album, Blood on the Tracks, this is about a romantic relationship that is unfortunately doomed from the start. It begins in the 3rd person before shifting to the first person. The lyrics are a splendid story of magnificent portions as only Bobs' great vocals can render. Topped off by his harmonica displace, a super song. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Stephen. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Blood on the Tracks is amazing from the first note to the last. I remember buying my copy back when it first came out - played it almost continuously for weeks. Dylan at his finest, along with Desire. Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding. Can't go wrong!
I particularly liked John Wesley Harding at the time. Just a day or two ago while I was rehashing the different grammatical usages of *lay* and *lie* , it occurred to me that Dylan's *Lay Lady Lay* is grammatically incorrect and it should be *Lie* Lady *Lie* (*lie* across my big brass bed).
Yeah I can relate. I wore this album out as a 15 year old. Remember friends didn't understand me. Well, they do now.. Dylan 50 years later is still writing songs that blow your mind. Listen to his.last album. Another masterpiece!
Great reaction video. The next one you should do from this album is “You’re a big girl now.” The melody, lyrics, and Dylan’s vocal delivery are all outstanding. The man is definitely one of one.
I love this song!!! The chord progression, the lyrics, the high, loud part he does with his voice near the end of each passage. The verse after the harmonica solo about waking up to a bare room is a hard hitter!!
You are the Man when it comes to appreciating good music and first-time listening pleasure. We are DE-LIGHTED to see how much you value what and who you share with us!!!
I have heard the entire BOTT album hundreds of times. Sheer tears, pain and beauty. Truly stuff for the ages. The singing is awesome, grabs you by the throat, and lands you a soft as possible.
Listen to Joan Baez’s cover of this song. She mimics Bob in one verse: remarkable and so so wonderful! Although it’s never been confirmed, most fans and Dylangraphers believe he wrote it about Joan.
I don't know if I love her version best, but I definitely love it. In fact, I listened to her version a lot, which motivated me to go back and pay closer attention to Dylan's version.
An amazing dylan masterpiece....for live versions, there are at least four different sets of lyrics to this song, sometimes subtly changing verses, sometimes changing entire verses & the whole aspect of the angle from which that part of the story is told, but it always conveys that same regret, longing & sadness.....; bob’s well is deep.
Blood on the Tracks is superb, and this is one of the best tracks of many great ones. For me, earlier Dylan is still the best though, and the very pinnacle may be "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). Dylan himself has said it's one of his best, and that he can no longer write like that and doesn't really understand how he ever did. It's like it's coming from a possessed prophet. Blood on the Tracks is Dylan older, wiser, more weary and a little sadder, but still a brilliant, thoughtful and razor sharp observer of human relations. It's much more introspective, about the personal and specific. He didn't necessarily create the blueprint for the introspective, confessional singer/songwriter, but he demonstrated with this album his absolute mastery of this kind of perspective as a writer.
I was obsessed with Dylan when I was in high school, 1975 was my senior year, I knew he had an album coming out, rumor was it was special, I checked into Jason's record store every day for weeks until one day, there it was! I took it home and played it.....I still have not stopped . There are few things in life that exceed expectations, this album was epitome of that!
Here's a simple twist of fate: A young man is playing guitar in a hotel lobby in Minnesota. No one's paying much attention. Then the front door opened and Gorgeous George (one of the early stars of professional wrestling) walked into the hotel with his posse. He looked over at the young man and nodded to him, acknowledging his presence. Dylan later said it was the first time anyone publicly acknowledged him, and it kept him going for a long time. Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Blood on the tracks is dylans finest album, you listen to it and you never skip a track, it's an absolute masterpiece. But visions of johanna from blonde on blonde is the finest example of his song writing. There is a live version where he does this accoation off the 1966 bootleg and when I first heard that I was blown away. I just sat there thi k jesus christ how the hell did he come up with that. And then he's does desolation row acoustic too and once again I'm lost for words. Nobody writes like Dylan, there will never be another.
This album came out after his divorce. He goes through all the emotions. The album is beautiful and painful. This song especially I’ve heard hundreds of times but it still gets me every time. For whatever reason, it tears me up. Sooner or later you need to hear this whole album, and I won’t be the only one to tell you so. Thank you for this.
may I suggest the live version of "Shelter from the Storm" featuring the Rolling Thunder Revue ...... BTW the Blood on the Tracks album is my favorite of my 5 favorite Dylan albums
Give a listen to a Dylan contemporary who we lost far too young so long ago. Phil Ochs. Pleasures of the Harbor will take you down a similar road as this song.
I love this song so much and the entire album . I nearly wore it out haha. His music never get's old. Pure genius! I love your commentary as well. I can tell you are good people. We're running low it seems on them nowadays. 60' s and 70's the best decades as of yet IMO. Keep up the great work .
My wife of 23 years and I decided to divorce-with this song on the turntable. That was 20 years ago and I still get choked up hearing this. (I saw him live 2 years after this album came out. Long before I knew what this song was gonna do to me. )
Yeah great lp try before the flood lp track ballad of a thin man, live lp one great lp, also hard rain lp another live Dylan lp lots guitars on stage, but it works track shelter from the storm a belter ✌️💯
I think this is Dylans most elegant album of his emotional sentimental song craft. Blood on the Tracks is best listened in its totality to appreciate its beauty.
It's wonderful to watch someone discovering and enjoying one of your own favourite tracks - I love this for so many reasons - the storytelling, the wistful mood he creates and the way he wraps the phrasing and rhyming around the music. Now I'm waiting for you to check out two of my other Dylan favourites - Not Dark Yet and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts......please.
Stephen - For me, "Simple Twist of Fate" from Blood on the Track", is pure Dylan performing one of his eternal greats! Harri, you have become a solid Dylan fan and great review.
Dylan hit it on this album. "Desire" is cool (with violin from Scarlet O'Hara.) And the remastered "Street Legal" has some of his best poetry, and a cool band. Dig. Pece on earth.
They recently released a much extended version of this album with numerous demos and takes of the songs that ended up on the album. It's so interesting to hear how a song evolves. Great song! Great album!
This album was recorded a couple blocks from where I live in Minneapolis. He couldn't get the sound he was looking for from the slick session players on either coast, so he came home to MN to get an earthier feel. Interestingly, since you reviewed them back to back, Dylan reportedly played songs from this album for Neil Young (as well as Crosby and Still, I believe), to get his/their reactions and feedback.
Best version of this song he ever performed... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BP_pZ841Nqs.htmlsi=2gQqoBs31fYhrXTr ... I get so emotional every time I hear this version. Even though Ive hear it several thousand times LOL...
Romance? It seems to me to be about whore life. "Parrot that talks" Coin in to a cup" "Where the Sailors all come in" "Ticking of Clocks" "Beat up window shades" "Lost the (wedding) ring." Great chord changes/melody/harmonica. "Lay Lady Lay" pretty cuckhold ish if they had that word for that back then.
This album represents a failure for Bob Dylan. He tried to do something different and he failed and so he ended up doing this album. And it's just pretty folk-rock-love stories that everybody else is doing at the time. Neil Young or the Eagles could do these songs. In fact, Bette Middler easily did a version of Buckets of Rain. He would later do great versions of many of these songs and produce albums with much more original and emotional material.
