Feb 24, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
What you should know about this song: In many ways, “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” was just a foreshadow of Dylan’s country style to come.
“Maybe it was tongue-in-cheek, I don’t know. It’s just a simple song, a simple sentiment. I’d like to think it was written from a place where there is no struggle, but I’m probably wrong… sometimes you may be burning up inside but still do something that seems so cool and calm and collected.” – Bob Dylan, 1985*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
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Feb 23, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: I Pity the Poor Immigrant
What you should know about this song: Bob Dylan has a unique way of recreating his material in unexpected and stunning ways. “I pity the Poor Immigrant” was first recorded as a “tender acoustic ballad,” yet when Dylan played it with Joan Baez seven years later he rearranged it as a vibrant rock song.
“Before I wrote John Wesley Harding, I discovered something about all those earlier songs I had written. I discovered that when I used words like ‘he’ and ‘it’ and ‘they’, I was really talking about nobody but me. I went into John Wesley Harding with that knowledge in my head.” – Bob Dylan, 1970*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Feb 22, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: Drifter’s Escape
Jimi Hendrix Cover: Drifter’s Escape
What you should know about this song: As with “All Along the Watchtower”, this song was a favorite of Jimi Hendrix.
“A song has to be of a certain quality for me to sing and put on a record. One aspect i has to have is that it doesn’t repeat itself.” – Bob Dylan, 1968*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Wikipedia
Feb 21, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix Cover: All Along the Watchtower
What you should know about this song: This rock anthem was first issued on Dylan’s John Wesley Harding album before reaching the hands of Jimi Hendrix.
“These songs on the John Wesley Harding album lack the traditional sense of time. ‘All Along the Watchtower’ opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, because we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order.” – Bob Dylan, 1968*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Bob Dylan recording All Along the Watchtower in 1967. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Source: The Guardian
Feb 20, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
Joan Baez Cover: I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
What you should know about this song: Joan Baez included it on her album of Dylan covers, Any Day Now.
“John Wesley Harding was a fearful album – just dealing with fear, dealing with the devil in a fearful way, almost. All I wanted to do was to get the words right. It was courageous to do it.” – Bob Dylan, 1978*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
