Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: voyager Date: 20 Jun 16 - 11:05 AM Baby Let Me Follow You Down (1st album) Arthur McBride Lay Lady Lay All Along the Watchtower Like a Rolling Stone Tambourine Man Dylan anecdote - Saw the 'Bob-ster' in a Beverly Hills movie theater (the Canon) back in 1975. Film was 'Les Enfants du Paradis' *Children of Paradise'. When the lights came up, he was wearing dark glasses (probably not to be recogizer, right). His style was something of the 'Blonde on Blonde' cover look, back in the day. voyager |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Amos Date: 19 Jun 16 - 10:02 PM Twelve years later and he is still knocking them out of the park with his rare combination of wry humor, antagonistic confrontation, sorrowful regret and universal compassion, with a pinch of essence of lemon and mixed spice. Lately, I've been covering: Tangled Up In Blue Got To Serve Somebody Shelter from the Storm In earlier phases I covered a lot of the classics: Girl from the North Country, Desolation Row, Just Like a Woman, Staying Here with You Takes a Train To Cry Corrina, Corrina Down Along the Cove and a few more I have since forgotten! A |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Mark Ross Date: 19 Jun 16 - 07:13 PM I have been known to sing WALKIN' DOWN THE LINE from time to time (which I learned 50 years ago from Bruce Murdoch). I also have fondness for ONE TOO MANY MORNINGS. Mark Ross |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,LynnH Date: 19 Jun 16 - 04:33 AM Just arrived here from the other thread about Dylan covers.....only 12 years late! 'North Country Blues' and 'Eternal Circle' are the ones I sing most often. Apart from that I've also been known, in recent years, to do versions of 'It ain't me, babe' and 'The Ballad of Donald White'. For Donald White, since I learnt it from a book of Dylan texts I had to make a tune for it, the Blind Boy Grunt recording being very obscure. I'd been singing my own version for at least 5 years before I found Dylan's original recording. I still use my own tune since I feel that 'Tramps and Hawkers', which Dylan uses, doesn't really fit the story! |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Coyote Breath Date: 03 Dec 04 - 01:45 PM Dylan on 60 minutes, December 5 (CBS on Sunday). CB |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST Date: 03 Dec 04 - 10:59 AM "first reaction to him was negative" I well remember lunchtimes in the school music-room listening to obscure material including some memorable illegal imports from the States. My 1st impressions of raw deep-south blues was almost shock/horror, but I soon got the bug. Then one fine day a friend came in the room saying "you gotta listen to this" and placed Dylan's 1st album on the turntable. Who the ****'s this!? was everyone's reaction, and my friend thought we were philistines. It was 1962, and we were 15 years old - crazy about the Everley's, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters & Jerry Lee - this was like something we'd never heard. Within a week I'd bought a harmonica and started playing (if that's the right term for it) along with the songs. Not long afterwards came the guitar (when I could afford it - cheap crap that it was) and in 1964 my 1st holiday away with my mates, and it was Dylan songs all the way round the camp-sites of Scotland. To this day I'm sure there are many old folk who remember how 4 young lads wrecked their holiday. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: alanabit Date: 03 Dec 04 - 03:33 AM I believe that Carter's appeal at the time failed, but that he subsequently cleared his name. I think there was a film about it. I like the sound of "Desire", with its rough harmonies and very loose rhythmic playing. Not many of the songs cover well though. My favourite, "Isis", is a dark comedy, which I can't imagine working as a solo song. It is easy enough to pull off a reasonable sounding version of "Sarah", but on reflection, there is no reason why anyone else should sing such a detailed, personal song! |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Coyote Breath Date: 03 Dec 04 - 01:14 AM Just "One More Cup of Coffee" but only because I don't do "covers" as a rule but I love the images conjured by the lyrics and the chord progressions are something I can manage. I really like every song on that album. (Desire) I didn't like Dylan until "Bringing it all Back Home" There will be an interview of Dylan on the next "60 Minutes" whenever THAT will be. My first reaction to him was negative because I was knocked out by Dylan Thomas and I resented Bobby Zimmerman "taking" Thomas' name (if indeed that is what he did) The early stuff was not to my likeing poetically. I changed my mind about his early days within the last ten years. When I first heard "Hurricane" I got tears in my eyes and kept saying "YES!, YES!, YES!" and played that cut again and again. I had never believed Ruben Carter was guilty. I had been a fan of Carter's and the story of him being a murderer was beyond belief. I felt Dylan's "Hurricane" was great poetry and even greater story telling and I still admire him for that if for nothing else. But I drift. CB |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: open mike Date: 02 Dec 04 - 04:57 PM wow! too much of nothing... i used to do thins one all the time.. and i completely blanked on it.. used to do it with "Released" a lot. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Cluin Date: 02 Dec 04 - 03:11 PM By the way, did we ever get any further info on that great cover of "Don't Think Twice" linked to by JustaPicker? Nice one,Jp , but who are the players and what is the recording? |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 02 Dec 04 - 02:51 PM chris -- as you may have deduced by now, my friends and I are older than you ;^). The last time we actually had one of those Dylan singalongs at a party was before "Love and Death," anyway. L&D is indeed a great album, of course, and many of the songs well worth trying to learn. Which leads directly to mention of the dylanchords site recommended by Pete, where all the words, even the most recent, are available at no charge -- thanks buddy! The newest updated edition of "Lyrics" was published very recently, as a companion piece for "Chronicles Vol I." I got an email notice from bobdylan.com yesterday announcing that it is available from Amazon at a serious discount -- $27 marked down from $45. Can we get the same deal buying through Mudcat? |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Jim Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:28 AM Thanks Pete - great site |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Jim Date: 02 Dec 04 - 10:36 AM I'm going I'm going! |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Pete Jennings Date: 02 Dec 04 - 10:33 AM Jim, go to www.dylanchords.com right now! |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Jim Date: 02 Dec 04 - 09:41 AM Got it - and working on Love & Theft songs now - some of Dylan's best songs to date (personal view) - though not as easy as his earlier songs (that's maybe what sets them apart). |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Pete Jennings Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:32 AM A Dylan Lyric book currently for sale in the UK goes up to Love and Theft, which includes the great song Mississippi. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: chris nightbird childs Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:09 PM That's terrible, Poppa! True Dylan fans would surely go beyond JWH. That said I would probably go up to Desire... |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 01 Dec 04 - 01:59 PM Reading a concurrent thread about the pros and cons of using the "Rise Up Singing" songbook at group events reminded me that our circle of friends has occasionally brought out the hardback Dylan "Lyrics" book at parties for group singing. The results have been predicably inconsistent, but always fun. These are not gatherings of musicians I'm talking about, certainly not "folkies" or serious singing enthusiasts -- just old-friend ex-hippies, including two or three guitar players, any one of whom might be able to remember or fake the chords for a given selection. Given our age group and the fact that most of the group are not players or even truly diehard Dylan fans, most of the page-flipping is restricted to the front half of the book, up to and including, say, John Wesley Harding. About a year ago, I was asked to bring my copy of the book to a party where the group sing never materialized, but *somebody* spotted the book and stole it -- a friend-of-a-friend's out-of-town guest, from whom it couldn't be recovered. So I had to go out and buy a replacement, and got a more recent edition with more songs. The copy that was stolen was the original publication with the brown cover; the new one includes everything up to "Empire Burlesque." |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Whistle Stop Date: 01 Dec 04 - 10:10 AM I do a lot of them, too: Tomorrow Is A Long Time; A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Chimes Of Freedom; Love Minus Zero/No Limit; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry; Visions Of Johanna; Just Like A Woman; Down In The Flood; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You; I Threw It All Away; Emotionally Yours. And, of course, I'm always happy to join in on the ones everyone trots out at musical get-togethers: I Shall Be Released and Forever Young. Those of us who are truly obsessive Dylan fans can generally play others on a moment's notice; they get into your bones after a while, and since they're not all that sophisticated musically, it's pretty easy to recall one well enough to play it when the notion hits. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Songster Bob Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:18 AM It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe, There's so many folk-singers around. It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, Babe, They all make the same sound. They look the same, and they sound the same, They all sing like Bobby, and Joanie What's-her-name*; They're on their way to fortune and fame, And if they don't think twice, that's all right. Copyright circa 1965 Chuck Perdue * Chuck, who sang with wife Nan, sang "They all sound like Peter, Paul, and What's-her-name." but I sing solo, so I changed it. This is the main Bob Dylan song I still do. Bob Clayton |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,To Ramona Date: 30 Nov 04 - 08:50 PM Freddy Fender and the Texas Tornados do a real nice version of "To Ramona" with the added spanish verse: Ramona tus ojos me dicen que vas a llorar Tu Sueno se boran y nada se va realiza Ramona sus ojos se secan y pierden su luz Te viste un carino de un hombre y un nino eres y hora soalamente eres I'm looking for the chord sequence if anyone can send it to me I would appreciate it Marshall |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Once Famous Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:58 PM I tend to stay away from many of these tired old songs in my solo gigs. I would do "you ain't goin' nowhere" except I think it lacks something done as a solo thing without that great harmony part for the chorus. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:54 PM The two songs I just mentioned (as I understand them and used to interpret them) may have plenty to do with love, but not much at all with marriage, family, and fidelity. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Nov 04 - 03:48 PM Bob entered into a period of writing mostly love songs with Nashville Skyline and it endured through and into Blood On The Tracks. This coincided with his conscious commitment to marriage, family, and private life, as opposed to being a rock star. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:47 PM "Throw my ticket out the window!" Correction: Yesterday at 12:52, I posted: ~~"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" is indeed one of Bob's. I like it and have done it; in fact, it was a mainsay in certain situations back in my busking days, but we won't go there.~~ Actually, it was "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" that worked best for making new friends out on the streetcorner, way back in '71-'72-'73. Forgot all about that one. "Is it really any wonder / the love that a stranger might receive? You cast your spell and I went under / I find it so difficult to leave." |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:28 PM I'm pretty sure Dylan did the picking on that track. He was a hell of a good acoustic guitar player back then...due to practicing almost constantly and picking up every trick he could off others like Dave Van Ronk, Ramblin' Jack, etc... |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Doug Chadwick Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:10 PM I've heard Don't Think Twice both fast and slow and I found the slow version to be a bit of a dirge. I much prefer it at the same speed as the original. Sometimes, however, I get carried away have to slow myself down to that pace. Doug C |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Jim Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:07 PM I'm not sure it's easy to play "Don't Think Twice" fast OR slow (after all - Dylan didn't play guitar on that track I'm told - is that true?) but I know I play it the same way/same speed as the original - maybe it was too fast to project the true feelings and sentiments in the lyrics; slowing it right down might be an improvement. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Little Hawk Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:50 AM I used to do "Tell Me That it Isn't True". Also have done "Lay, Lady, Lay", "I Threw it All Away", "One More Night", and a couple others off that album. It's a kind of odd album for Bob, but does have a few gems on it. It's easy to play "Don't Think Twice" too fast...something about the arrangement. I used to do "Visions of Johanna" a lot. What a great song. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Bsondahl Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:42 AM So ami I the only one that does, "Tell me that it isn't true" (off Nashville Skyline?) What I say about covering Dylan, is that everybody does it because everybody sounds better than Dylan singing his songs. (But no one, not even Baez mugging, sounds "like" Dylan). Brad Sondahl sondahl.com |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:17 AM I tend to play *everything* too fast if I'm not careful, especially when I've just finished learning to play it and am beginning to fall into the groove of "knowing" it. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:11 AM Noted: Don't Think Twice seems to be the song most listed; maybe it's one of the favourites amongst mudcatters. After performing it for the millionth time last week my wife amazed me by saying "that's the best song ever written", but then she wiped the smile off my face by saying "but you do it too fast" - "but I do it at the same tempo as Dylan!" I retorted........ "Yes" she says .. "much too fast" Now I spent many hours getting that fingerstyle right many years ago - and NOW she tells me! Does she have a point? - how do you play it? (or do I need to start another thread?) |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: fat B****rd Date: 30 Nov 04 - 04:40 AM I forgot Too Much of Nothing. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Doug Chadwick Date: 30 Nov 04 - 02:38 AM Don't Think Twice Boots of Spanish Leather Blowin' in the Wind It Ain't Me Babe I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Don't Think Twice is my favourite. Doug C |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Nov 04 - 11:55 PM Geez! I forgot the Blood on the Tracks stuff... I do "Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now", "Simple Twist of Fate", and "If You See Her, Say Hello". Have done "Idiot Wind" the odd time as well, but usually just for my own enjoyment at home. Used to do "Hazel" and a few others from "Planet Waves". Another guy's songs I love to cover is Al Stewart. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Padre Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:09 PM Percy's Song |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: jaze Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:52 PM I'm impressed with the person who does "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" Now that's an impressive undertaking. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: jacqui.c Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:45 PM Have done Blowing in the Wind. Would love to be able to do With God On Our Side. Maybe one day..... |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Margret RoadKnight Date: 29 Nov 04 - 08:58 PM Babe I'm In the Mood For You Walking Down the Line |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Steve-o Date: 29 Nov 04 - 05:41 PM I never do a set by myself or with my "string band" that doesn't include at least one Bobby song. Current favorites include Bob Dylan's Dream, Tomorrow is a Long Time, I Shall Be Released, Boots of Spanish Leather, Talking WW III Blues, When I Paint My Masterpiece, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, and Positively 4th Street. Lots and lots of others, but obviously I don't do a whole lot of the "newer" ones. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Little Hawk Date: 29 Nov 04 - 03:42 PM I do so many Dylan covers that it almost equals my own original repertoire. Among my favourites, and played most often are: Love Minus Zero (No Limit) Every Grain of Sand Forever Young She Belongs To Me Just Like a Woman Desolation Row Dark Eyes One More Cup of Coffee I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine I Pity the Poor Immigrant All Along the Watchtower Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Mr Tambourine Man To Ramona Ring Them Bells Blowin' In The Wind Lay Down Your Weary Tune Dylan's songs are the only songs in the World that feel just like my own songs to me every time I sing them. I seem to become Bob when I play his songs (but I still sing them in my own voice, which most people like better anyway). I also play harmonica like he does, but not exactly like does...just kind of similarly. He was doing some virtuoso level harmonica playing in 64-66. I can't match some of it. I've also heard him play some very poor harmonica breaks at other times. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Tradsinger Date: 29 Nov 04 - 02:15 PM Boots of Spanish Leather - great song. I do it with slow-picked banjo. Gwilym |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Ebbie Date: 29 Nov 04 - 01:57 PM JustaPicker- if that were your voice on that recording, I'd think you'd be very proud! LOL (She has a lovely voice) |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: open mike Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:53 PM Forever Young is such a versitile song.. I have sung it at birthdays, funerals, rest/convalescent homes, and bed time. It is like a prayer. You ain't goin' No Where, Don't think twice I Shall be released |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:52 PM Thanks Pete. "Hearing" the chord changes isn't my problem; it's more a matter of what to do within the chords. I just have never come up with an arrangement for this song that satisfies *me*, as I have for those other numbers I feel I can list as "covers that I do." There are gazillions of songs I can fake my way through, with minimal chord strumming, but I don't consider them "mine." I had thought that "sustained fifths" were more exotic than those two inversions of C and G, which I play all the time but never knew what they were. Learn someting every day -- thanks! late 'n short 2, good handle! I think I may have a legitimate claim to the number one spot in the "day late and a dollar short" category, and I'm glad to see you're modest enough only to claim number-two status... "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" is indeed one of Bob's. I like it and have done it; in fact, it was a mainsay in certain situations back in my busking days, but we won't go there. Earlier in this thread, someone mentioned (somewhat disparagingly) Kristofferon's cover of this one in the "30th" concert. Is this the first mention of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"? That's another one I used to play very often, but forgot to mention earlier. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: late 'n short 2 Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:23 PM Don't Think Twice, You Ain't Goin Nowhere, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (or does that belong to someone else?) |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Cluin Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:16 PM Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Farewell Angelina Don't Think Twice It Ain't Me Babe Lay Down Your Weary Tune Forever Young |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,Jim Date: 29 Nov 04 - 11:32 AM Current: Love Minus Zero (DADGAD) Girl from the North Country Bob Dylan's Dream (but prefer to sing Lord Franklyn instead) Tambourine Man Don't Think Twice Lay Lady Lay I Shall be Released All Along the Watchtower (+ freestyling harmonica blues in Am and lucky enough to be blessed with a great fiddle accompanyist) Baby Blue (Dropped D - great groove with Em7 and a Bm thrown in for good measure) Past: Blowin' in the Wind (far too many better songs followed) Times they are a-changin' (OK at the time I suppose) Masters of War Gates of Eden It's allright Ma Knock k'nock k'nocking (boredom factor knocked it out) |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Pete Jennings Date: 29 Nov 04 - 11:13 AM The spacing came out wrong, but you should be able to hear where the chords change. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Pete Jennings Date: 29 Nov 04 - 11:11 AM Poppa I cheat a bit on Love Minus Zero. I play it fingerstyle using these chords: C Csus5 My love she speaks like silence F Csus5 Without ideals or violence F C She doesn't have to say she's faithful F Gsus5 Cos she's true like ice like fire C Csus5 People carry roses F Csus5 And make promises by the hour F C My love she laughs at the flowers F Gsus5 C Valentines can't buy her Csus5 = C, with pinky on 3rd fret top E Gsus5 = G, with the highest note being 3rd fret B string I think I get away with it... |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:57 AM Juan P-B, thanks for the tip [Try 'Love Minus Zero' in 'open D' - Very exciting!]. I have very limited skills/experience in tunings other than standard, but I'll see what I come up with. I have been making an effort recently, and open-D is the first alternate tuning I'm tryng to master. I think the reason I've never been able to satisfy myself with any arrangement I've put together for "Love Minus Zero" is my absolute inability to even approximate the sound of Bruce Langhorn's great 2d-guitar part, which is what I hear in my mind's ear when I think of the song. Part of Peggy's attachment to the song is the fact that it's the first and only song she learned during a brief fling at guitar playing, years before we met. (Of course, she picked that one to play because she already loved it.) |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Pete Jennings Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:51 AM Love Minus Zero/No Limit Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues She Belongs To Me Mississippi You Ain't Going Nowhere I Shall Be Released Blowin' In The Wind O Sister Sara Blind Willie McTell Knockin' On Heaven's Door Mr. Tambourine Man One Too Many Mornings Currently relearning the words to Every Grain Of Sand. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST,James Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:42 AM Wedding Song, I love the Tune, love The lyrics, It's Alright Ma, I don'y do it often but It is fun to do so I keep playing it in order to remember the words. Black Diamond Bay because it is a great short story set to music, Baby Let Me Follow you Down, Sarah, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Dark Eyes. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Juan P-B Date: 29 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM Poppagator! Try 'Love Minus Zero' in 'open D' - Very exciting! And I also do the original (sound track) version of 'Knocking On Heaven's Door' Juan P-B |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Peter T. Date: 29 Nov 04 - 08:27 AM "Tangled Up In Blue" is the only one I do -- nice open tuning song (but there are lots one could do -- Dark Eyes, Simple Twist of Fate.... yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: mkebenn Date: 29 Nov 04 - 08:08 AM Mighty Quinn, Don't Think Twice, Blowin', Tamborine, Back Pages, Momma, you've been on my mind. Pretty common, huh? Mike |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: alanabit Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:55 AM I have burgled the Dylan songbook shamelessly over the years - especially the songs from "Blood on the Tracks". The only one I do these days is "Buckets of Rain", because I like playing in the nice, easy open tuning. When I get time, I want to sit down and work out a version of "The Man In The Long Black Coat". |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:18 AM Simple Twist of Fate Ballad of the Thin Man dw |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: fat B****rd Date: 29 Nov 04 - 05:17 AM Like a Rolling Stone Don't Think Twice It's Alright Knockin' on Heaven's Door You Aint Goin' Nowhere All in the comfort of my living room these days.But there was a time........ |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Strollin' Johnny Date: 29 Nov 04 - 05:02 AM Lay Down Your Weary Tune. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: GUEST, Hamish Date: 29 Nov 04 - 04:34 AM Well, I resisted for a long time, but I've always loved All Along the Watchtower. I've heard too many bad versions, but then I stumbled on a individual take on it, and not I use it as my rabble rousing set closer. (I knew I was onto something when I did it an a singaround and the guy next to me said in genuine awestruck tones "that was f***ing brilliant!") |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: mg Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:08 AM If I were a preformer I would sing one more night, the hour that the ship comes in, Mighty Quinn, Blowing in the wind. mg |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: chris nightbird childs Date: 29 Nov 04 - 12:02 AM Baby Blue Tom Thumb's Blues One More Cup of Coffee Positively 4th Street |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: number 6 Date: 28 Nov 04 - 11:54 PM I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: mousethief Date: 28 Nov 04 - 11:39 PM Don't Think Twice is the only Dylan cover I do. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: PoppaGator Date: 28 Nov 04 - 11:34 PM I was going by the sound of your voice; I assumed you were the singer on "your" cover performance. But maybe not; after all, you're Justa Picker, aren't you? If it is your voice, and you're male, I suppose an apology is in order. I wasn't the only person here to hear the clip and assume it was a woman singer. There's a great New Orleans singer, John Boutte, who regularly fools me in this regard. I'll hear one of his recordings on our local radio station and think it's Etta James or somebody. |
Subject: RE: Dylan Covers YOU Do From: Justa Picker Date: 28 Nov 04 - 10:42 PM ... then JustPicker trumped everyone by posting a link to her own rendition ... Ha! |
Subject: Dylan Songs YOU Cover From: PoppaGator Date: 28 Nov 04 - 09:58 PM We started to touch on this in "Favorite Versions..." I believe that more than one repondant spoke up for "MY version of [suchandsuch]," and then JustPicker trumped everyone by posting a link to her own rendition of "Don't Think Twice." Very nice performance, and a *very* slick move! Not all of us have the technical capability to respond in kind, but we can rattle off titles, can't we? (I'm a bit of a has-been, by the way, having put in lots of time and effort as a performer way back in 1970-73 before "retiring" to family life and day jobs. So my entire repertoire, Dylan covers and others, is mostly from that earlier era.) Six or seven years ago, I played my an open-mic-type session on Bob's birthday, my first in many years. The rules: Dylan songs only, and try not to repeat what anyone else did earlier in the evening. I came on relatively late. This was my set: "Mama You've Been On My Mind" "Takes A Lot to Laugh, Takes a Train to Cry" "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" "When I Paint My Masterpiece" They're all songs I'd been playing forever, major favorites for which I had well-established guitar parts and thoroughly practiced vocals. I had two others ready, but they had already been done that evening -- "Don't Think Twice" and "I Shall Be Released." Back in my streetsinging days, I had quite a few more at my fingertips; Dylan songs made up a big chuck of my repertoire. Two longish numbers which often helped me pass the time: "Tom Thumb's Blues" "Like A Rolling Stone" I used to *love* singing "How Does It Feeeeeel" at the top of my lungs, out on the tourist street; I'd get so into it, I'd even jump up and down. Nowadays, I'm not sure I could sing it convincingly enough (to myself anyway) to deliver a plausible performance. Also mainstays in the olden days: "Spanish Harlem Incident" "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" "Walkin' Down the Line" "Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance" "Mr. Tambourine Man" "Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat" (all purpose 12-bar-blues-jam lyrics) Then there's my wife Peggy's single absolute favorite Dylan song, for which I've never yet worked up a good-enough rendition: "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" And finally, two numbers I meant to practice and memorize in time for my fiftieth birthday party (seven years ago) and still intend to work up, for me and my friends as we all become more senior every day: "My Back Pages" "Forever Young" |
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