Hanks Williams’ granddaughter, Holly Williams, offers up this intense cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender.”
The song appears on the Springsteen tribute album, Dead Man’s Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A., out in September.
Here are a few other covers from the album:
Low, “I’m On Fire”:
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, “Born In The U.S.A.”:
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And here’s a new song, “My Wrecking Ball,” that Adams played at Newport.
SET LIST:
“Gimme Something Good”
“Magick”
“Stay With Me”
“Fix It”
“Dirty Rain”
“Let It Ride”
“Shadows”
“Oh My Sweet Carolina”
“Everybody Knows”
“Catherine”
“My Wrecking Ball”
“Peaceful Valley”
“Beautiful Sorta”
“Do I Wait”
“Mother”
“Come Pick Me Up”
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Great performance by Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen of Bob Dylan’s “All ALong The Watchtower” at the Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, MN on October 5, 2004.
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Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, “Ye Playboys and Playgirls”
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OK, so we know this day, 49 years ago, was historic. Bob Dylan going public with his new electric rock ‘n’ roll sound.
We all know the story. We all know the different versions of the story.
What remains amazing is the music.
On Saturday July 24, 1965 Dylan played a workshop and did three acoustic numbers. I’ve got “All I Really Want To Do” and “Love Minus Zero/ No Limit” from that workshop, and then all the songs from his evening performance on July 25, 1965.
Here Dylan rock out through “Maggie’s Farm,” “Like A Rolling Stone” and “Phantom Engineer,” an early version of “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry.”
This music will be as alive as anyone until humans are no more.
“Phantom Engineer” (early version of “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”):
“Mr. Tambourine Man”:
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”:
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Last night The Hole Steady delivered this blistering performance of the excellent “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” which is on the equally excellent Teeth Dreams.
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One year ago, Bob Dylan and band performed “Blind WIllie McTell” at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on July 23, 2103.
Cool version.
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After a couple of minutes of talking, Eddie Vedder and Cat Power sing “Tonight You Belong to Me” and then Vedder sings “The Needle and the Damage Done.”
This happened at this past weekend’s Super Bock Super Rock in Portugal.
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Neil Young, early ’70s. Photo by Michael Goldberg.
This is a hot live version of “Down By The River” performed by Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA
on March 1, 1970.
Fifteen minutes!!
Fourteen years later, on September 27, 1984 at the Quality Seal Amphitheatre at the World’s Fair, New Orleans, LA, before playing the song, Neil Young said:
I’d like to sing you a song about a guy who had a lot of trouble controlling himself. He let the dark side side come thru a little too bright.
One afternoon he took a little stroll down thru a field and thru a forest, ’til he could hear the water running along there. And he met his woman down there. And he told her she’d been cheatin’ on him one too many times. And he reached down in his pocket and he pulled a little revolver out. Said “honey I hate to do this but you pushed me too far”.
By the time he got back to town he knew he had to answer to somebody pretty quick. He went back to his house and he sat down on his front porch. About two hours later the sheriff’s car pulled up out front. It started sinkin’ in on him what he’d done. The sheriff walked up the sidewalk, he said “come with me son, I want to ask you a few questions”.
As he heard the jail door shut behind him he sat down on a little wooden bench. And he looked out of the door – thru those bars – at this kind of wimpy looking sheriff out there. He started getting mad again and he realized what he had done.
There wasn’t nothing he could do about it now though. He just sat down and put his head down and he started thinking to himself “I’m all by myself here, there’s nobody on my side…..”
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