Okay, just my sometimes not-so-humble opinion, but this one really isn't in doubt... Five hundred songs and 70 or so albums...

By now, the younger folks are going "Huh? Who?"

Here's a sampling of his works from various artists....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t4g_1VoGw4

The guy your mom dated...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhtafqZvy8

His voice is like aged single malt scotch whisky, definitely an acquired taste, but here's an early double jigger full...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrK6L91BgA

Finally, the following "group" wasn't together for long, but if they had been, they might've been the most talented rock-and-roll band ever assembled...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efb_1229642080

Feel free to try to identify all the participants... Here's one: the guy in purple is George Harrison...

Cabbie, Did you attend his concert at Deer Valley back in '08?
That was a crazy-ass rainstorm! I expected a few rounds of mud-wrestling to break out!

No rain, just good times... Missed '08... But...

In 1976 Dylan brought the whole Rolling Thunder Review to the old Salt Palace for what seemd like a four hour show (I still regret eating those damn chocolate you-know-whats; I was zonkered and near comatose at the end).

McGuinn, Joan Baez... Others I don't remember but Allen Gingsberg gave a poetry recital just before intermission...

Dumb fark reporter who covered it didn't even know who Ginsberg was....



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I sometimes think I was born 20 years too late! I missed a lot of good acts in their hey-day, but at least I get to see them now. LOL...stay away from the chocolate covered you-know-whats!

It would be quite the "trip" to hear Ginsberg read poetry.

I'm not a fan of Dylan.


And I can't believe Deborah Harry is 65 !

I saw Blondie back in '09. She looks great for 65 and still rocks!

When I taught in North Dakota, one of the things I did before class was play music from artists who were from within 500 miles of North Dakota, partly to show them that some pretty damn good stuff can come from the middle of nowhere.

That included a pretty heady contingent of names all of whom are near 70 right now, including Randy Bachman, Neil Young, Buffy St Marie, Joni Mitchell, Bobby Vee, Leo Kottke, (from a slightly younger generation, Prince and Loreena McKinnett), and of course, the kid from Hibbing, Bob Dylan.

I was always particularly tickled that Prince and Dylan were from Minnesota. It counters the impression that everyone up there is as white bread as, say, Tim Pawlenty. :)

Happy Birthday, Bobby.

In the late 1970s, Dylan became a born-again Christian and released two albums of Christian gospel music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK2zzVBJxYs

"My stuff were songs; they weren't sermons."

And, yeah. He's over the BAC thing now. :)

Not only my very favorite album by Dylan, but quite possibly my favorite album of all time.

We start every road trip with that album.

On my iPod, the number of Dylan songs is second only to the Beatles (not counting other people doing Dylan).

Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, George Harrison . . . .

HA! Did it without cheating - I'm old as snot.

;o)

Yeah, you forgot Roger McGuinn. And I'm officially old as snot!

sorry..... i didnt know ole BOB was that freakin frackin old!!



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Man now THIS makes me feel really old!

that honor goes to a Canadian!!
GORDON LIGHTFOOT!!
DONT GIT NOE BETTER!!

That other Canadian who's in the video is Number Two... Originally part of the Buffalo Springfield...

It was my thread, BTW... And while I was reviewing and deciding which songs to link, I ran across a lot of artists giving their "Top Ten Dylan" songs... Shoot, some of them had entirely different lists, which is telling...

C'mon, pick a "Best Dylan Song." You'll be thinking for a good long time...

Best Lightfoot is easy... "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

And nothing wrong with that...

the "best is Gord's Canadian railway trilogy!!
but like a lot of things....jmo!!

This makes my day! Glad to see Lightfoot still remembered.


If you've ever loved a beautiful woman, this song will haunt you 'till the End of Time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhEvjyk_dc

Beautiful.

song for Dylan is easy peazy for me too!!
Hurricane Carter!!!
listening to it shortly!! :)

hundreds of songs in 57 different tunings.

And she has never been accused of plagiarism, much less been proven guilty of it.

Saskatchewan ought to build a monument for her.

Gods, every one of them.

Sigh

Happy Birthday Bob from a very very very very very old fan.

:-)

Briggy

I recently saw an article in which Dylan talked about his heroin use in the early years. He fought his way through it and triumphed. Inspirational in many ways.

I can remember when I was a 18 yr. old pup at one of my first college parties. I was sitting at the kitchen table, and my friend had a cassette player playing some Dylan, and he was going on and on about how brilliant it all was. I was thinking, man, that's awful - I just couldn't get past the singing.

Fast forward 20 yrs. I heard a Tim O'Brien CD played on a bluegrass show and my ears pricked right up. What was he singing about? They didn't sound like typical song lyrics; that was poetry. So I went and bought the CD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_on_Blonde It's all Dylan covers done in a bluegrassy style and unlike Dylan, O'Brien has a great set of pipes. It's in my top five CDs of all time.

Anyway, I finally GOT Dylan. I can now even smoke my Dylan unfiltered. I gotta say he has his singing moments too (well, he used to, anyway ;-).

Yeah, he's the man. Happy Birthday Mr. Dylan.

...and preferred other people covering him. Now I take it straight up, and love it.

when he wants to.

Check out Lay Lady Lay from Nashville Skyline.

I still have that LP, along with "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and probably several more.

Does anyone remember Ian and Sylvia? I loved that duo. They covered several Bob Dylan compositions.

There are way too many to choose one or two as there are one or two for every mood you might be in. So I'll throw these two out:

Highway 61

Tangled Up In Blue

When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.

Joanie tells it differently, BTW...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8qbb2K5Qw

>The 60's are over, so set him free...

>Singer or savior, it was his to choose...

>Thank you for writing the best songs. Thank you for writing a few wrongs. You're a savage gift on a wayward bus...

I listened to Dylan on 8-tracks from a deck mounted under the dash in my car. If that doesn't date me, nothing will.

Fast forward to 2001. My then 17 year-old son, a respectable guitar player, attends a U2 concert in Denver where he finagles his way on stage using the title of a Dylan song, "All along the Watchtower" on a hand-made sign. Bono asks him if he wants to play it and he says yes. U2 covered that song years before on an early album. So my son starts of playing it, Bono starts singing it, Edge joins in, then the rest of the band. On the fly, Bono makes up a a verse about my son, and about the red rocks of Colorado.

I still have the photos of him playing with those Irish rockers, and a recording of that track. At the end, Bono told the audience that he talked to Bob about that song once and Dylan said he felt like he never really finished it. Bono then told the audience he just finished it for him. Then Bono and Edge gave him one of their guitar picks, and my son reaches in his pocket and gave them each one of his. Bono cracked up.

He is going to the U2 concert tonight in SLC, wouldn't put it past him to attempt another set with them.

Yep

I had to reread your post to jog my memory and I do remember your son giving Bono the guitar pick. Small world, eh?
Also loved it when he took the American flag from an audience member and hugged it for a minute.



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Totally small world, although I've run into several people over the years that were there and remember it.

That concert was only 2 months after 9-11, and U2 did a great tribute to those lost on that day.

I had no idea my son was even going to attempt that feat when he left home. We got a phone call at home later that night telling us all about it. I jumped onto the net and found the photos and the bootleg recording of that track within a few hours.

There is Nooooo way Miss Black is 70 years old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Greatest. Songwriter. Ever.

You have no idea how many times I've asked what day comes after Saturday.

I've got my daughter into iCarly and Amanda Cosgrove...

Much more wholesome...

IMO, Young's licks shined over Clapton's on that piece.

Young's guitar is wild shit...