Link to Song: Dignity
What you should know about this song: “Dignity” became the highlight of his MTV Unplugged concert, his performance reaching the UK Top 40 singles chart in 1995.
“People can learn everything about me through my songs, if they know where to look.” – Bob Dylan, 1990*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Johannas Visions
Link to Song: Man in the Long Black Coat
What you should know about this song:
“It’s one of my favorites. It paints a picture of small town Americana, a dance hall on the outskirts of town, and how a strange individual comes in, and ‘Not a word of goodbye, not even a note, she’s gone with the man in the long black coat’.” – Daniel Lanois
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Johannas Visions
Link to Song: Most of the Time
What you should know about this song:
“I think he’s amazingly sensitive to all kinds of outside experience, the same as any artist who is really good at something. His songs take us to another level. he is absolutely a poet. He made songwriting into an art form, and made it worthy of committing you soul to.” – Kris Kristofferson
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: EIL
Link to Song: Ring Them Bells
What you should know about this song:
“It’s mysterious and dark… Some of the songs on this record are the best songs I’ve hard in a while. And his voice sounds very sensuous. He’s such a fine lyricist and craftsman with words. He’s staggering, the concentration that he has for lyrics.” – Daniel Lanois, producer of Oh Mercy
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Tune of the Day
Link to Song: Brownsville Girl
What you should know about this song:
“It has to do with a guy standing on line and waiting to see an old Gregory Peck movie that he can’t quite remember – only pieces of it – and this whole memory thing happens, unfolding before his very eyes. He starts speaking internally to a woman, reliving the whole journey they’d gone on. We spent two days writing the lyrics.” – Sam Shepard
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Ebet Roberts
