365 Days of Dylan, Day 80: Under Your Spell

365 Days of Dylan, Day 80: Under Your Spell from the album Knocked Out Loaded.

Under Your Spell Lyrics. The song was cowritten by Dylan and Carole Bayer Sager.

             

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 79: Freight Train Blues

365 Days of Dylan, Day 79: Freight Train Blues. Lyrics.

Freight Train Blues was first released on the 1962 album Bob Dylan.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 78: Black Diamond Bay

365 Days of Dylan, Day 78: Black Diamond Bay from the 1976 release Desire. Always fond of Dylan's story songs. And this one is quite a story.

Up on the white veranda

She wears a necktie and a Panama hat

Lyrics

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 77: Ballad of Hollis Brown

365 Days of Dylan, Day 77: Ballad of Hollis Brown from The Times They Are A-Changin'.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 76: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

365 Days of Dylan, Day 76: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go from Blood in the Tracks.

          

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 75: Trying to Get to Heaven

365 Days of Dylan, Day 75: Trying to Get to Heaven

   

Trying to Get to Heaven from Time Out of Mind.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 74: I'm Not There

365 Days of Dylan, Day 74: I'm Not There, from various releases including The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series, Volume 11.

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Another amazing day of live performances at Fitzgerald's American Music Festival. Some year, I'm going to save up, sleep up, take the week off and make it to all four days of the fest. But this year, day 2 more than delivered. I mean, Marshall Crenshaw backed by Los Straight Jackets covering Nick Lowe was more than worth the price of admission.

Regrettably, I bailed before Shiny Ribs and Shemika Copeland, but I did catch Semi Twang, the incredibly talented Liz Vice, Chicago Salty Dogs, The Tillers, Kevin Gordon, Terrance Simien, The Pines and Sarah Shook, along with Marshall Crenshaw and Los Straightjackets.

And it only took 35 years, but I finally got to see Marshall Crenshaw perform Someday, Someway live. The encore singalong of Nick Lowe's Cruel to Be Kind was sweet icing on this tasty musical cake.

Thank you, Fitzgerald's. See you next year.

Liz Vice at Fitzgerald's American Music Festival, July 1, 2017 (MikeBarzacchiniPhoto)

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 73: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window

From The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, Bob Dylan 1965-1966, The Cutting Edge.

Jimi Hendrix, Live at the Filmore East, May 10, 1968. 

The Hold Steady.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 72: Satisfied Mind

How many times have you heard someone say

If I had his money I'd do things my way

Hmm, but little they know

Hmm, it's so hard to find

One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Dylan's recording of this classic song by Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes appeared on Saved (1980).  

Satisfied Mind lyrics. 

Money can't buy back
Your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonely
Or a love that's grown cold

Bob Dylan, live in 1999.

Many other artists have recorded Satisfied Mind. Here are five noteable ones. 

1. Johnny Cash.

2. Jeff Buckley.

3. Joan Baez.

4.  Willie Neslon.

5.  Lucinda Williams.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 71: Stardust

The third release from Triplicate, Stardust, is a 90-year-old Hoagy Carmichael song that's been covered thousands of times. Dylan holds his own with a lovely, soulful performance highlighted by sweet western guitar.

If there was any doubt, Triplicate's 30 classic covers affirm Dylan's sustained journey into the backroads of American standards. I'm enjoying the ride. Triplicate is set for release on March 31.

Stardust lyrics.

Dylan's Stardust featured in Rolling Stone.

365 Days of Dylan, Day 70: Pay in Blood

Bob brings the growl to Pay in Blood from 2012's Tempest.

"I pay in blood, but not my own." Lyrics.

Pay in Blood made the Rolling Stone 50 Best Songs of 2012 list.

Bob Dylan on tour.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 69: Pressing On

365 Days of Dylan, Day 69: Pressing On from 1980's Saved. Sometimes all you can do is press on.

Dylan, live in Toronto, Pressing On.

Lyrics.

365 Days of Dylan, Day 68: Folsom Prison Blues

365 Days of Dylan, Day 68: Folsom Prison Blues from The Basement Tapes Sampler: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11. Dylan plays Cash.

Dylan and the Dead, Folsom Prison Blues, Live 1987.

  

Bob Dylan - Folsom Prison Blues (Self Portrait Outtake)

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 67: Shot of Love

365 Days of Dylan, Day 67: Shot of Love from the 1981 album from the same name. Released just six years after Blood on the Tracks, it couldn't sound more different. This opening cut is all big beat, drums, bluesy bombastic vocals and stinging guitars. A lot of swagger in this song. Lyrics.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 66: Fourth Time Around

365 Days of Dylan, Day 66: Fourth Time Around. Another great tune from Blonde on Blonde. Dylan details the intricacies of a complicated relationship with perhaps a few echos of Norwegian Wood. Hear also the starkly beautiful version by Chris Whitley.

When she said
“Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies”
I cried she was deaf
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes
Then said, “What else you got left?”
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, “Don’t forget
Everybody must give something back
For something they get”

Lyrics.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 65: You're a Big Girl Now

365 Days of Dylan, Day 65: You're a Big Girl Now from 1975's Blood on the Tracks, one of my favorite albums. I love the interplay between the acoustic guitars at the start and Dylan's breathy, weary vocals. Lyrics.

I saw My Morning Jacket play before Dylan and Wilco a few years  ago at Toyota Park in Chicago. On Chimes of Freedom, My Morning Jacket delivers a great rendition of this song.

     

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 64: Hurricane

365 Days of Dylan, Day 64: Hurricane from 1976's Desire.

Yes, here’s the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For somethin’ that he never done
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world

Hurricane Lyrics.

• Bob Dylan Plays First Live Performance of “Hurricane,” His Song Defending Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (RIP) in 1975 (Open Culture)
• Boxer Rubin Carter, Subject of Bob Dylan's Hurricane, Dead at 76

365 Days of Dylan, Day 63: Shake Shake Mama

365 Days of Dylan, Day 63: Shake Shake Mama, written by Dylan with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, like all but one song on Together Through Life (2009). Lyrics.

The Deep Dark Woods' Ryan Boldt - Shake, Shake Mama (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan talks about working with Robert Hunter on Together through Life (Rolling Stone). 

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 62: It's All Good

365 Days of Dylan, Day 62: It's All Good from Together through Life (2009). Lyrics.

Read the four-star Rolling Stone review of Together Through Life.

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• 100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs according to Rolling Stone Magazine.
• 20 Overlooked Bob Dylan Classics (Rolling Stone)
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• Bob Dylan on tour.

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SXSW 2010: Chuck Prophet Plays Past Curfew at Momo's

Did you go to SXSW in 2010? To paraphrase Mark Twain, one of the coldest winter days I ever spent was March 19 in Austin. Day temperatures did reach the 60s F, but lows dipped into the 30s. And as I recall, it was raw and windy much of the day. With visions of sundrenched Austin days, I had not packed for the weather.

Chuck Prophet at Momo's, SXSW 2010 (Mike Barzacchini photo)

Things heated up when I arrived at the now departed Momo's on west 6th Street. After a sizzling set by Jon Dee Graham, Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express took the stage at around 1 a.m.

Usually, SXSW showcase sets are a brief 30 minutes. Maybe because they were on last that night, Prophet and band delivered a marathon set by SXSW standards.

Along with his own great songs (Summertime Thing, You and Me Babe (Holding On), You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp), Sonny Liston's Blues), he also paid tribute to Alex Chilton, who was scheduled to appear at SXSW on March 20 that year with Big Star. Unfortunately, he died on March 17.

Stephanie Finch, SXSW 2010 (Mike Barzacchini Photo)

Prophet is an exhilarating live performer and he  more than delivered that night while draining every ounce of rock and roll energy from his audience. I staggered back to my hotel, smiling and exhausted at nearly 2:30 a.m., happy in the knowledge that I'd just experienced a rock show I'd not soon forget.

365 Days of Dylan, Day 61: Early Mornin' Rain

365 Days of Dylan, Day 61: Early Mornin' Rain from Self Portrait (1970).

I have longtime, fond memories of Early Morning Rain, or in this case, Early Mornin' Rain.

Written by Gordon Lightfoot and first released on his 1966 debut, Lightfoot!, I first came to know the song from Lightfoot's re-recording on 1975's Gord's Gold. His performance is light a favorite, warm comfortable sweater. Made me smile everytime it came on the radio. Still does. Though now the "radio" is often Spotify, YouTube or iTunes.

I've come to appreciate and enjoy Dylan's version too. Starts with a gentle, almost south-of-the-border guitar, piano and harmonica. He's a smooth, relaxed crooner on this one.

Need to go beyond Lightfoot or Dylan? You have plenty of choices. Peter, Paul and Mary, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, Chad & Jeremy, Jerry Reed, Elvis Presley and Paul Weller all made the charts with a version of the song. 

Yearning for home and the promise or hope brighter days ahead, Early Mornin' Rain is a perfect traveling song.

Gordon Lightfoot, live in Chicago, 1979

Peter, Paul and Mary

Jerry Reed

Ian & Sylvia with Gordon Lightfoot

Alison Krauss and Union Station

Paul Weller

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SXSW 2008: Pinetop Perkins at Nuno's

Remember that Tuesday night in March 2008 when we walked into Nuno's and Pinetop Perkins was playing?

Mike Barzacchini Photo

That's what I love about Austin and SXSW. Music everywhere and you never know who you're going to run into. What a kick to see Pinetop play in an intimate setting like Nuno's. Years before in either 1988 or 1989,  he came on stage to play a song or two with Bonnie Raitt at a show I attended at Riverbend in Cincinnati. But this, this was something else all together.

Now Pinetop and Nuno's are no more. But the music and memories live.

I won't make it to SXSW this year, so I'm coping by reliving memories from my past six visits (while I'm making plans for SXSW 2018).

365 Days of Dylan, Day 60: John Wesley Harding

365 Days of Dylan, Day 60: John Wesley Harding from the 1967 album of the same name.

Stripped down instrumentation and solid songcraft, tinged with religious imagery gets Dylan back to his folk roots while hinting at his music's spiritual transformation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

• Read Rolling Stone's five-star review.
• John Wesley Harding lyrics.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 59: Clean Cut Kid

365 Days of Dylan, Day 59: Clean Cut Kid from 1985's Empire Burlesque. A raucous rocker that decries war, commercialism and the fate of American youth in modern society. And it has a beat. You can dance to it.

"He was a clean-cut kid

But they made a killer out of him

That’s what they did"

Lyrics. 

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 58: The Night We Called it a Day

365 Days of Dylan, Day 58: The Night We Called it a Day from Bob Dylan's 2015 album of standards Shadows in the Night.

Dylan performed The Night We Called it a Day on the second-to-last episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, May 19, 2015.

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Music by Matt Dennis, lyrics by Tom Adair.  The Night We Called it a Day has been performed by many artists, including Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra and Diane Krall.

Celebrate Johnny Cash's Birthday with this Playlist of Cash Covers from Bloodshot Artists

Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932.

To help celebrate, the good rockin' folks at Bloodshot Records put together this Spotify playlist of Cash songs covered by Bloodshot artists, including Waco Brothers, Old 97's, Sally Timms and Kelly Hogan. Great stuff.

Any day is a great day to celebrate the life and music of Johnny Cash. And this playlist sure puts me in the mood.

365 Days of Dylan, Day 57: (Quinn the Eskimo) The Mighty Quinn

365 Days of Dylan, Day 57: Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).

Recorded by Dylan in 1967, The Mighty Quinn was first released by Manfred Mann who had a hit with the song in 1968. Dylan finally released the song on 1970's Self Portrait.

Kris Kristofferson, Lulu, The Grateful Dead, and The Hollies are among the artists who have sung about the legend of Quinn the Eskimo. Quinn the Eskimo lyrics.

Check out multiple versions of The Mighty Quinn on Amazon.

The 1989 Denzel Washington The Mighty Quinn took its name from Dylan's tune. Sheryl Lee Ralph perfromed a version of the song for the movie's soundtrack.

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365 Days of Dylan, Day 56: Went to See the Gypsy

365 Days of Dylan, Day 56: Went to See the Gypsy, originally released in 1970 on New Morning. Also appears on Another Self Portrait The Bootleg Series, Volumne 10 (2013).

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In his five-star Rolling Stone review of New Morning, rock critic Ed Ward called Went to See the Gypsy "a masterpiece."

365 Days of Dylan, Day 55: It Hurts Me Too

365 Days of Dylan, Day 55: "It Hurts Me Too." Here's Dylan, again with the blues and another cover from Self Portrait.

First recorded by Tampa Red in 1940, Elmore James had a 1957 hit with the song. Junior Wells recorded the song a few times, first in 1962. Here's his version from Essential Blues Masters. This song is also recorde as "(When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too."

Check out versions by Eric Clapton (solo and with Derek and Dominos) and Mike Bloomfield.

For a breathy, rhythmic take, Listen to First Aid Kit's cover.  And I'm extremely partial to Hound Dog Taylor's sizzling version.

I'm less than a poor guitar player, but I'm going to try to figure out this classic eight-bar blues on my beat-up six-string. Hopefully, if you ever hear me play, it won't hurt you too.

It Hurts Me To, chords and lyrics.

First Aid Kit has a unique way of making a song its own.
This version of "It Hurts Me Too" is no exception.

I like Dylan's cover, but Hound Dog Taylor's is probably my favorite. 

I love the cracking energy of his performance.

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Many YouTube videos featuring performances of "It Hurts Me Too." Here are a few:

Elmore James

The Grateful Dead, from Europe 1972

Foghat, yes, Foghat. Dayton, Ohio, 1997.

The Rolling Stones, 1969

365 Days of Dylan, Day 54: Let it Be Me

365 Days of Dylan, Day 54: Let it Be Me from 1970's Self Portrait.

Originally published in French in 1955 as "Je t'appartiens," the Everly Brothers had a hit with "Let it Be Me" in 1955. Dylan is one of dozens of other artists from Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark and Elvis to Rod Stewert, Neil Diamond and Kenny Rogers who have covered the song. 

Let It Be Me Lyrics.

365 Days of Dylan, Day 53: Idiot Wind

365 Days of Dylan, Day 53: Idiot Wind from Blood on the Tracks.

Some of Dylan's most piercing lyrics about love and loss. 

"You’re an idiot, babe / It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe."

Harsh, Bob, very harsh. Lyrics. 

A live version from Hard Rain. 

From the Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3.

A spiffy cover of "Idiot Wind" by Phil Pritchett from Blueprint Garage, Volume 2.