Tag Archives: Bob Dylan

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Song of the Day #1,434: ‘Idiot Wind’ – Bob Dylan

Best Albums of the 70s – #1
Blood On the Tracks – Bob Dylan (1975)

I doubt this pick will come as a surprise to anybody, particularly given that Bob Dylan hasn’t placed another album on this list. The 70s wasn’t his most successful decade, but it produced what may well be his best album.

Blood On the Tracks is the quintessential break-up album, a poetic chronicle of a dissolving marriage that simultaneously feels deeply personal and profoundly universal.

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Song of the Day #1,356: ‘Cold Irons Bound’ – Bob Dylan

Best Albums of the 90s – #16
Time Out of Mind – Bob Dylan (1997)

The 90s were not particularly memorable for Bob Dylan.

He followed 1989’s comeback success Oh Mercy with 1990’s disappointing Under the Red Sky and over the next seven years managed only to release two albums of classic folk covers.

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Song of the Day #1,343: ‘Born in Time (Alternate Version)’ – Bob Dylan

So apparently the little people who live in my iTunes and select the random playlist have a sense of humor.

Just last week, frequent commenter Amy delighted in the selection by the “iPod fairy” of several country tunes during Random Weekends and predicted “I don’t think Bob Dylan is showing up anytime soon!”

I guess the iPod fairy showed her.

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Song of the Day #1,321: ‘Make You Feel My Love’ – Beyond1Music

I’ve come across several dozen covers of ‘Make You Feel My Love’ from Bob Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind, but just about every one of them is described as an Adele cover.

No doubt many, if not most, of those singers believe Adele wrote the song. It’s not as if her version is different from Dylan’s (apart from the vocals, of course) so that covering Adele’s version is somehow different from covering Dylan’s. She was faithful to the original.

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Song of the Day #1,320: ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ – shoombabies

The young woman singing in this clip appears to be the driving force behind the shoombabies YouTube channel. She sometimes performs solo, both with and without a guitar, but often is joined by a wide range of accompanying musicians.

In this case, the girl playing guitar isn’t identified and isn’t all that great a guitar player (or at least, her guitar doesn’t sound all that great to me… but maybe that’s more of a tuning issue). And I find that adds to the appeal of the clip.

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