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Audio: The Rolling Stones Cover ‘Watching The River Flow’ & Keith Richards Does ‘Girl From The North Country’

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

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in the new issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

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Listen: Apparently Copyright-Free Bob Dylan Recordings Show Up on ‘Have A Light’ Album

Earlier this year an apparently legit album of pre-1963 Dylan recordings called Have A Light showed up on Amazon in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The album, available only as mp3s, contains 24 excellent early Dylan recordings. The price? $7.99.

So what’s the deal? I’m not sure. If you have more solid info regarding this album, please let me know.

Most of the songs are folk and blues standards that weren’t written by Dylan, but a version of his “Song to Woody” is included as is “Talkin’ New York Blues.”

In any case, for at least six months this album has been available and if Sony could stop it from being sold, you’d think they would.

Some of these recordings – including “Hard Times in New York Town” and “Roll On John” and Hank Williams’ “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle” — come from recordings made at Cynthia Goodings apartment in March of 1962, while a 1961 version of “Cocaine Blues” is probably from a tape made in Bonnie Beecher’s apartment.

Have A Light track listing:

1 Hard Times in New York Town — Cynthia Gooding, March 11, 1962

2 You’re No Good
3 In My Time of Dyin’


Bob Dylan – In My Time Of Dyin' (1962… by theUnforgettablesTv

4 Man of Constant Sorrow
5 (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle — Cynthia Gooding, March 11, 1962

6 Fixin’ to Die
7 Cocaine Blues – 1961 recording, probably from the Bonnie Beecher apartment tape

8 Roll On John — Cynthia Gooding, March 11, 1962

9 Pretty Peggy-O
10 Corrina, Corrina
11 Gospel Plow
12 Baby Let Me Follow You Down
13 House of the Risin’ Sun
14 Freight Train Blues
15 Long John
16 Talkin’ New York
17 Baby Please Don’t Go
18 Song to Woody
19 Highway 51
20 Wade in the Water
21 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
22 Mixed Up Confusion
23 Dreamed a Dream
24 Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad — Cynthia Gooding, March 11, 1962

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