![]() ![]() Sarah Jane from David Saferstein on Vimeo. The best of these tracks may be “Sarah Jane,” a traditional tune that Dylan made into a rollicking rocker, with the album’s most passionate vocals. “I Ain’t Got No Home” in particular is a great but little heard example of the Dylan/Band onstage chemistry, at its peak.ĭylan’s 1973 soundtrack for the movie “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” (in which he also co-starred) was mostly instrumental and mostly forgettable, but did yield one classic, the haunting (and frequently covered, since then) “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.”ĭylan, from 1973, is often considered Dylan’s worst album: An all-covers collection of outtakes recorded during sessions for Self Portrait and New Morning, released by Columbia Records after Dylan had signed with another label (Asylum). In 1968, Bob Dylan and The Band (known, at the time, as The Crackers), appeared together at a Woody Guthrie tribute concert, and three of the songs they did were included on the 1972 live album, A Tribute to Woody Guthrie. The Concert for Bangladesh triple album, recorded at Madison Square Garden in August 1971 and released in December of that year, included a full side of Dylan songs, including a version of “Just Like a Woman,” featuring backing vocals by George Harrison and Leon Russell, that I like better than the more fussily arranged original. ![]() I (including “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”), a previously unreleased live track (“Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” from 1963) and four previously unreleased studio tracks, including the poetic but also playful “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” featuring Leon Russell on piano (and producing), Jesse Ed Davis on guitar, Carl Radle on bass and Jim Keltner on drums. ![]() II included recent singles (including “Lay, Lady, Lay”), songs that didn’t quite make the cut of Vol. New Morning came out just four months after Self Portrait in 1970, was more ambitious and more cohesive, with a stripped-down sound and Dylan singing of love, rebirth and, as on the album-closing “Father of Night,” faith.ĭylan’s 1971 double album Greatest Hits, Vol. ![]() It did, however, contain a great, loose-and-rowdy cover of “The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo),” recorded with The Band at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. Look below for a Spotify playlist, compiled by Ken Shane.ĭylan’s first album of the ’70s was Self Portrait, which, despite its title, was his least personal release to date, a double-album hodgepodge of covers, original songs, instrumentals and live tracks. And here is an index for all 77 songs in the series.) ( Update: Here are the posts for the ’60s, ’80s, ’90s, ’00s and ’10s (and beyond). ![]()
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