Pretty great cover of “Bob Dylan’s Dream” by Bryan Ferry off Chimes of freedom (The Songs of Bob Dylan).
“Bob Dylan’s Dream”:
And if that’s not enough, here’s Ferry’s entire 2007 album of Dylan songs, Dylanesque.
Track list:
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues 0:00
Simple Twist Of Fate 3:50
Make You Feel My Love 9:09
Times They Are A-Changin 12:31
All I Really Wanna Do 16:11
Knockin On Heavens Door 18:42
Positively 4th Street 24:55
If Not For You 28:41
Baby Let Me Follow You Down 31:22
Gates Of Eden 33:35
All Along The Wathctower 38:47
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Fifty-one years ago, when Bob Dylan performed at Town Hall in New York on April 12, 1963, he blew a lot of people’s minds, and we’re still reeling from this amazing event.
I could write pages on this concert, but all you gotta do is hear it, and you’ll get it.
The concert — 23 songs plus a poem — was incredible. I’ve previously posted some of the songs, but today I’ve got the entire concert. All the songs and the poem.
This is worth your time!
Town Hall, April 12, 1963:
1 Ramblin’ Down Thru The World
2 Bob Dylan’s Dream
3 Talkin’ New York
4 Ballad Of Hollis Brown
5 Walls Of Red Wing
6 All Over You
7 Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues
8 Boots Of Spanish Leather
9 Hero Blues
10 Blowin’ In The Wind
11 John Brown
12 Tomorrow Is A Long Time
13 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
14 Dusty Old Fairgrounds
15 Who Killed Davey Moore?
16 Seven Curses
17 Highway 51
18 Pretty Peggy-O
19 Bob Dylan’s New Orlean’s Rag
20 Don’t Think Thrice, It’s All Right
21 Hiding Too Long
22 With God On Our Side
23 Masters Of War
24 Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
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Fifty-one years ago, on February 8, 1963, Bob Dylan played a set at Gerde’s Folk City in Greenwich Village.
It was two years after Dylan had arrived in New York, nearly two years since he got one of his first breaks playing at Gerde’s, which was probably the most important folk club in the country at that time.
Poster for Dylan’s first gig at Gerde’s Folk City in 1961.
It was a review in the New York Times by Robert Shelton of Dylan opening for the Greenbriar Boys at Gerde’s that helped Dylan to get the attention of Columbia Records’ legendary A&R man John Hammond.
By February of 1963, Dylan had signed a record deal with Columbia Records, taken on manager Albert Grossman, secured a publishing deal with Whitmark and recorded his debut, Bob Dylan, and had it released to less than minor success.
He was six months away from his first hit, a version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” that Peter, Paul and Mary would take to #2 on the pop charts, setting the stage for one of the most long-lasting and successful careers in popular music.
Gerde’s Folk City.
Below are recordings of the songs Dylan recorded at Gerde’s in the order they were performed.
1 “Lonesome River Edge”:
2 “Back Door Blues”:
3 “Bob Dylan’s Dream”:
4 “You Can Get Her”:
5 “Farewell”:
6 “All Over You” (with Happy Traum):
7 “Masters Of War”:
8 Instrumental
9 “Keep Your Hands Off Her”:
10 “Honey Babe”:
11 “Goin’ Back To Rome”:
12 “Stealin’, Stealin’,” (with Happy Traum):
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