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~ Shelter from the Storm
Views: 28426 |  |  |  |  | bob dylan shelter from the storm cover in "open E"(ive got it tuned down to "open D" with a capo on the second fret
i promised lynette some dylan...this is one of my favorites from blood on the tracks. when i discovered that every song on the album was ...More in open D and open E tuning i decided to relearn every song...very edifying :o)
Eric Clapton once said about Dylan: "His way of playing anything is totally hybrid. It doesn't make sense musically to the scholar. [...] At first listening, everything he does is just real hopeless. Then you look back and realise it's exactly right." As a scholar I take this as a challenge: If something is "exactly right", but still doesn't make sense to the scholar, it is either the scholar's sense or the scholar's analytical tools that are inadequate. I take the liberty of disregarding the first possibility -- although that is probably the commonest cause for scholarly not-being-made-sense-to-ness -- and concentrate on the second: the problems inherent in musical analysis of music of Dylan's kind.
Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 15th studio album, released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records.
The album, which followed several years of lukewarm reception for Dylan's work, was greeted respectably by fans and critics. In the years following its release, it has come to be regarded as one of his very best albums - making it quite common for subsequent records to be labeled his "best since Blood on the Tracks."[1] [2] [3] [4] It is also commonly seen as a standard for confessional singer-songwriter albums, though Dylan has denied that the songs are autobiographical, his son Jakob Dylan has stated: "The songs are my parents talking."[5] Most of the lyrics on the album revolve around heartache, anger, and loneliness.
The album reached #1 on the Billboard U.S. pop charts and #4 in the UK. The single "Tangled Up in Blue" peaked at #31 on the Pop singles chart. The album remains one of Dylan's all-time best-selling studio releases, with a double-platinum US certification to date.
The songs are largely seen as inspired by Dylan's personal turmoil at the time, particularly his separation from his then wife Sara Dylan.
All ten songs on the album were originally recorded at New York City sessions produced by Phil Ramone. With Columbia set to release the LP, Dylan pulled back at the last minute, and at year's end re-recorded five of the ten songs in Minneapolis with a crew of area session musicians assembled by his brother, David Zimmerman.
Dylan's fans theorize endlessly about his reasons for revamping the album, with one unconfirmed view being that the musical feel of the album had been monotonous, with too many songs in the same key and the same languid rhythm. It has also been said that, just two weeks before the release of Blood on the Tracks, Dylan played an acetate of the record for his brother, his ensuing comments leading Dylan to re-cut the album. [1]
Told of the album's lasting popularity, Dylan was later to say (in a radio interview by Mary Travers): "A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It's hard for me to relate to that. I mean, it, you know, people enjoying the type of pain, you know?"
In Dylan's 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Vol. 1, he claims that although one album of his songs was entirely inspired by short stories by Anton Chekhov, many of his fans and critics treat it as autobiographical. This passage is often cited as a reference to Blood on the Tracks.
] Track listing
Side one
"Tangled Up in Blue" -- 5:42
"Simple Twist of Fate" -- 4:19
"You're a Big Girl Now" -- 4:36
"Idiot Wind" -- 7:48
"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" -- 2:55
Side two
"Meet Me in the Morning" -- 4:22
"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" -- 8:51
"If You See Her, Say Hello" -- 4:49
"Shelter from the Storm" -- 5:02
"Buckets of Rain" -- 3:22 |
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~ Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind (1976-Hard Rain)
Views: 126206 |  |  |  |  | Hard Rain Show
23 May 1976
Fort Collins, Colorado
"Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to I ...More taly,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
People see me all the time and they just can't remember how to act
Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.
Even you, yesterday you had to ask me where it was at,
I couldn't believe after all these years, you didn't know me better than that
Sweet lady.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I ran into the fortune-teller, who said beware of lightning that might strike
I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like.
There's a lone soldier on the cross, smoke pourin' out of a boxcar door,
You didn't know it, you didn't think it could be done, in the final end he won the wars
After losin' every battle.
I woke up on the roadside, daydreamin' 'bout the way things sometimes are
Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes,
Blood on your saddle.
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
It was gravity which pulled us down and destiny which broke us apart
You tamed the lion in my cage but it just wasn't enough to change my heart.
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped,
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when you reach the top
You're on the bottom.
I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind
I can't remember your face anymore, your mouth has changed, your eyes
don't look into mine.
The priest wore black on the seventh day and sat stone-faced while the building
burned.
I waited for you on the running boards, near the cypress trees, while the springtime
turned Slowly into autumn.
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
I can't feel you anymore, I can't even touch the books you've read
Every time I crawl past your door, I been wishin' I was somebody else instead.
Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory
And all your ragin' glory.
I been double-crossed now for the very last time and now I'm finally free,
I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.
You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above,
And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love,
And it makes me feel so sorry.
Idiot wind, blowing through the buttons of our coats,
Blowing through the letters that we wrote.
Idiot wind, blowing through the dust upon our shelves,
We're idiots, babe.
It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves" |
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~ Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
Views: 51751 |  |  |  |  | Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1974)
1.Tangled Up In Blue
2.Simple Twist Of Fate
3.You're A Big Girl Now
4.Idiot Wind
5.You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6.Meet Me In The Morning
7.Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
8.If You See Her ...More , Say Hello
9.Shelter From The Storm
10.Buckets Of Rain |
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~ Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan cover
Views: 24705 |  |  |  |  | Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan cover with my new Taylor 654CE 12 string ;oD
this is one of my favorites from blood on the tracks. when i discovered that every song on the album was in open D and open E tuning i decided to relearn every song...very edif ...More ying :o)
Eric Clapton once said about Dylan: "His way of playing anything is totally hybrid. It doesn't make sense musically to the scholar. [...] At first listening, everything he does is just real hopeless. Then you look back and realise it's exactly right." As a scholar I take this as a challenge: If something is "exactly right", but still doesn't make sense to the scholar, it is either the scholar's sense or the scholar's analytical tools that are inadequate. I take the liberty of disregarding the first possibility -- although that is probably the commonest cause for scholarly not-being-made-sense-to-ness -- and concentrate on the second: the problems inherent in musical analysis of music of Dylan's kind.
Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 15th studio album, released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia after a two-album stint with Asylum Records.
The album, which followed several years of lukewarm reception for Dylan's work, was greeted respectably by fans and critics. In the years following its release, it has come to be regarded as one of his very best albums - making it quite common for subsequent records to be labeled his "best since Blood on the Tracks."[1] [2] [3] [4] It is also commonly seen as a standard for confessional singer-songwriter albums, though Dylan has denied that the songs are autobiographical, his son Jakob Dylan has stated: "The songs are my parents talking."[5] Most of the lyrics on the album revolve around heartache, anger, and loneliness.
The album reached #1 on the Billboard U.S. pop charts and #4 in the UK. The single "Tangled Up in Blue" peaked at #31 on the Pop singles chart. The album remains one of Dylan's all-time best-selling studio releases, with a double-platinum US certification to date.
The songs are largely seen as inspired by Dylan's personal turmoil at the time, particularly his separation from his then wife Sara Dylan.
All ten songs on the album were originally recorded at New York City sessions produced by Phil Ramone. With Columbia set to release the LP, Dylan pulled back at the last minute, and at year's end re-recorded five of the ten songs in Minneapolis with a crew of area session musicians assembled by his brother, David Zimmerman.
Dylan's fans theorize endlessly about his reasons for revamping the album, with one unconfirmed view being that the musical feel of the album had been monotonous, with too many songs in the same key and the same languid rhythm. It has also been said that, just two weeks before the release of Blood on the Tracks, Dylan played an acetate of the record for his brother, his ensuing comments leading Dylan to re-cut the album. [1]
Told of the album's lasting popularity, Dylan was later to say (in a radio interview by Mary Travers): "A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It's hard for me to relate to that. I mean, it, you know, people enjoying the type of pain, you know?"
In Dylan's 2004 memoir, Chronicles, Vol. 1, he claims that although one album of his songs was entirely inspired by short stories by Anton Chekhov, many of his fans and critics treat it as autobiographical. This passage is often cited as a reference to Blood on the Tracks.
(from wikipedia)
Side one
"Tangled Up in Blue" -- 5:42
"Simple Twist of Fate" -- 4:19
"You're a Big Girl Now" -- 4:36
"Idiot Wind" -- 7:48
"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" -- 2:55
Side two
"Meet Me in the Morning" -- 4:22
"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" -- 8:51
"If You See Her, Say Hello" -- 4:49
"Shelter from the Storm" -- 5:02
"Buckets of Rain" -- 3:22 (more) (less) |
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~ Jane Fonda Antiwar Speech Jan. 27, 2007
Views: 577 |  |  |  |  | Washington DC Jane speaks out after 34 years of silence about war.
I don't agree with her politics and I am not fond of Fonda. I think her actions during the Vietnam War were very unAmerican and I think she is bordering on this again.
With this video ...More I was looking for some truths as opposed to tales.
This is for "letitgobefree" |
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