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
Link to Song: Blind Willie McTell
What you should know about this song: Originally, Dylan experimented with this song for the Infidels album in 1983. However, it wasn’t included on a record until The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 in 1991.
“I started playing it live because I hard The Band doing it. Most likely it was a demo, probably showing the musicians how it should go. It was never developed fully, I never got around to completing it. There wouldn’t have been any other reason for leaving it off the record.” – Bob Dylan, 2006
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Lynn Goldsmith
Link to Song: Jokerman
What you should know about this song: “Jokerman” went through a series of revisions in the early 1980s before it was chosen as the opening track for Infidels. Throughout his 1984 tour and again in his 1994 tour, Dylan regularly opened his shows with this song.
“‘Jokerman’ came to me in the [Caribbean] islands. It’s very mystical. The shapes there, and shadows, seem to be so ancient.” – Bob Dylan, 1984*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Lynn Goldsmith, 1983
Link to Song: Every Grain of Sand
What you should know about this song:
“That’s a good poem to music. it’s a beautiful melody, too, isn’t it?” – Bob Dylan, 1991
“‘Every Grain of Sand’ was an excellent song, a very painless song to write. It took like 12 seconds – or that’s how it felt.” – Bob Dylan, 1992
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: NME
