Neil Young, backed by Booker T and the MGs, does “All Along the Watchtower” at Finsbury Park, London, July 11, 1993.
Young is in great form on this one. Terrific soloing.
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The third song to be released off the upcoming album, Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, is called “When I Get My Hands On You” and features Marcus Mumford on lead vocal.
The album, produced by T Bone Burnett and also featuring Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) and Jim James (My Morning Jacket), is out November 11, 2014.
“When I Get My Hands On You”:
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I believe these first three clips are from the Rolling Thunder Review show at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, May 23, 1976.
This is a moving and beautiful version of “Just Like A Woman” with Scarlet Rivera on violin.
“Just Like A Woman”:
“Isis”:
“Blowin’ In The Wind”:
“I Don’t Believe You,” War Memorial Auditorium, Plymouth, MA, USA, October 31, 1975:
Here are a bunch of songs recorded during the tour including “Maggie’s Farm,” “One Too Many Mornings,” “You’re A Big Girl Now” and plenty more.
And here’s 50+ minutes from the April 22, 1976 show at the Starlight Ballroom in Clearwater Florida:
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The second annual Wilko Johnson Writing Award contest is currently open for business.
If you’re 25 or younger and write about music, you’ve got until midnight, Friday October 17, 2014, to submit your entry, a 350-word essay addressing this question:
“’The charts are dead!’: Is the Top 40 still relevant in 2014?”
All the details are here.
The contest, which is part of the Louder Than Words literary festival, is named after the acclaimed British guitarist Wilko Johnson, best known as a member of Dr. Feelgood in the ‘70s; early this year Johnson’s collaboration with Roger Daltry of The Who, Going Back Home, charted at No. 3 in the U.K.
“It’s named after Johnson because it is a competition for young writers and Wilko Johnson was a teacher – he has an English degree from Newcastle Univeristy,” explained Louder Than Words co-curator, Simon Warner, author of “Text and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture.”
“In addition, he [Johnson] is a capable and committed wordsmith in his own right,” Warner said. “Beyond that, too, he is a respected, avid and obsessive reader – appreciationg words associated with music and in books and journalism, national and international.”
The winner will be chosen by a “panel of high calibre judges drawn from related industries – writing, the academy, the music business,” Warner said.
The winner will be announced on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 and the award will be presented at the festival on Sunday, November 16, 2014.
The winner will receive: a full weekend festival pass, a complete set of 100 titles from Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 album series, and will be published on the Rock’s Back Pages website.
Louder Than Words will take place November 14-16, 2014 at The Palace hotel in Manchester, England.
As described on the Louder Than Words website, the festival includes “’in conversation with’ sessions, panel discussions, interviews, workshops, performances and casual opportunities for engaging with performaners, authors, editors, publicists, reviewers, press, artists and aficionados.”
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Two great clips from a show Bob Dylan did at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, England on May 5, 2002.
“Desolation Row”:
“Absolutely Sweet Marie”:
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Today, a day when over 300,000 people reportedly assembled in New York for the People’s Climate Day March to voice their concerns that serious work needs to be done to stop climate change, Neil Young released an orchestral, studio recording of his protest song, “Who’s Gonna Stand Up?”
The musically stunning anthem attacks big oil and the “big machine.”
But what Neil Young doesn’t address in his song is that animal agriculture — factory farms and the whole system of meat production — is the biggest contributor to climate change. This is the elephant in the room.
As the new documentary “Cowspiracy” shows, environmental groups, for the most part, ignore this ‘inconvenient truth.’ If you haven’t seen the film, google it and find a showing near you. Or wait until early November and you can get the DVD. It’s a must-see film.
Today I spent three hours at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater with the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition at the huge Bay Area People’s Climate Day event and we passed out 100s of brochures detailing the impact of Factory Farms (and eating meat, or products made form animal secretions such as milk) to mostly unaware environmentalists.
I would love for Neil Young to see “Cowspiracy,” or for someone, anyone, to get some information to him. It’s great what he’s doing but there’s this big hole, it would seem, in his knowledge of what is contributing to climate change.
Plus acoustic version:
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Jerry Garcia plays a great acoustic version of Bob Dylan’s “It Takes A Lot to Laugh, Takes a Train to Cry” at Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, OR, May 5, 1982.
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The Rolling Stones haven’t covered many songs by Bob Dylan, but they came together in 2011 to record a tribute to their departed (from this earth) piano player, Ian Stewart. Their cover of “Watching The River Flow” is a good one. It appears on the Ben Waters album Boogie 4 Stu: A Tribute To Ian Stewart.
And I like both Keith Richards’ take on “Girl From The North Country,and his version of the Luke Jordan song Bob Dylan also covered, “Cocaine Blues.”
Keith Richards, “Girl From The North Country”:
Keith Richards, “Cocaine Blues”:
The Rolling Stones and friends, “Watching the River Flow”:
On this last track:
KEITH RICHARDS — GUITAR
MICK JAGGER — VOCALS, HARMONICA
CHARLIE WATTS — DRUMS
RONNIE WOOD — GUITAR
BILL WYMAN — BASS
BEN WATERS – PIANO
TOM WATERS — ALTO SAX
WILLY GARNET — SAX
DON WELLOR — SAX
ALEX GARNET — BARITONE SAX
DAVE SWIFT — TAMBOURINE
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I know it’s hard to believe, but once upon a time, that time being the late ’60s and early ’70s, Rod Stewart could really sing, and he made some amazing rock ‘n’ roll records, and zome excellent folk-style recordings.
Here are two of Stewart’s covers of Bob Dylan songs that are quite good. Plus one by The Faces (Rod Stewart being the vocalist).
Plus versions of the songs by Mr. Dylan himself.
Enjoy.
Rod Stewart, “Tomorrow Is A Long Time,” 1971:
Bob Dylan, “Tomorrow Is A Long Time,” The Rundown Rehearsals, 1977-1978:
Rod Stewart, “Girl From The North Country,” 1974:
Bob Dylan, “Girl From The North Country,” 1964:
Plus this cool version of “Wicked Messenger” as recorded by The Faces in 1970:
Bob Dylan and the Grateful Deal, pre-tour rehearsals, June 1987:
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Neil Young rocked Farm Aid 2014 at Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC, on September 13, 2014.
Here are clips of his performances:
Intro to Neil Young’s set:
“Heart Of Gold”:
“Comes A Time”:
“Pocahontas”:
“Standing in the Light of Love “:
“Mother Earth”:
“Who’s Gonna Stand Up and Save the Earth?”:
“Rockin’ in the Free World”:
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