Last year the acoustic music club I sing at in Mainz, Germany, organised a Dylan evening with participating musos restricted to club members. Furthermore, to avoid overlaps such as 5 renditions of "Mr. Tambourine Man" etc. one had to sign up before the evening and indicate what you intended to sing, a process which produced a well organised evening. What amused me was that , with enough guitars around to open a music store, I got up and sang "North Country Blues".....a cappella. You could have heard a pin drop!(solo a cappella is almost unknown in Germany- but the audience really liked it). A good evening because all the participants, including the various 'scratch' groups, had practised beforehand and the signing-up process meant that the programme was an interesting cross-section of Dylan's creativity.
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