Mar 16, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: One More Cup of Coffee
What you should know about this song: Jacques Levy co-wrote this song with Bob Dylan for the Desire album, which was later featured in the movie Renaldo & Clara.
“It’s a gypsy song. That wrong was written during a gypsy festival in the south of France one summer. Somebody took me to a birthday party there once, and hanging out there for a week probably influenced the writing of that song. But the ‘valley below’ probably came from some place else.” – Bob Dylan, 1991*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: NAMM
Mar 15, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: Isis
What you should know about this song: Dylan collaborated on this song with Jacques Levy during the Desire album sessions of the summer of 1975.
“It was just extraordinary, the two of us started to get hot together. We began to work on this thing and we just kept going with it, and we’d stop, and we didn’t know where the story was going to go next. We were just having a great time laughing and coming up with one verse after another, and we kept on going until five in the morning, and we finished the song. And both of us thought it was great.” – Jacques Levy
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Bob Dylan, 1976
Photo Source: Stephen Johnson
Mar 14, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: Hurricane
What you should know about this song: In the summer of 1975, Dylan was inspired by his visit with imprisoned boxer Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and the circumstances that led to his arrest, which Carter claimed was unjust.
“Hurricane sent me his book, which I read and which really touched me. i felt that the man was just innocent, from his writings and knowing that part of the country. So I went to visit him and was really behind him, trying to get a new trial.” – Bob Dylan, 1985
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Johannas Visions
Mar 13, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: Shelter from the Storm
What you should know about this song: In addition to featuring this song in a number of his live tours, Dylan also recorded a special rendition for the Hard Rain TV special and album during which he plays slide guitar.
“I love the beautiful complexity of his images. He uses very specific images and melds them into his melody so that it all sounds like first inspiration. The greatest artists do that. The song feels like they reflect your own life back to you.” – Rosanne Cash*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: EW
Mar 12, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song:
What you should know about this song: This compelling narrative only appeared in Dylan’s live performances in duet with Joan Baez throughout the Rolling Thunder Revue tour.
“He understood folk music’s capacity and its storytelling power. It wasn’t formulaic. He saw how folk was able to inform timeless messages. His talent was so palpable, you could feel it.” – Paul Stookey, one-third of folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Rolling Stone Magazine
Mar 11, 2012 | 100 Days with Bob Dylan
Link to Song: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Miley Cyrus Cover: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Madeleine Peyroux Cover: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
What you should know about this song: After Dylan included this song for his 1976 tour, he never included it in a live performance since. Thanks to Madeleine Peyroux’s sensitive cover version, the song reached the hearts of a wider audience in the early 2000’s.
“That’s just a beautiful song. I always used to think – and this is a lesser known part of his writing – that his romantic take on things always has a very bittersweet quality. As far as I’m concerned, he writes the most beautiful love songs, in a lot of ways, so that’s why I was so excited about recording that song.” – Madeleine Peyroux*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: The Hackskeptic’s Review
