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Any Day Now (Joan Baez Album)
''Any Day Now'' is the ninth studio album by Joan Baez, released as double LP in 1968 and made up exclusively of Bob Dylan songs. It peaked at number 30 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Albums chart. History At the time of the album's original release, six of the songs had not been included on official Dylan releases. One song, "Love is Just a Four-Letter Word," has apparently never been recorded by Dylan himself. The album was produced during a marathon recording session in Nashville in September 1968, the fruits of which resulted in two albums: ''Any Day Now'', and 1969's '' David's Album''. Baez would return to Nashville to record a number of times during the next several years. Laying Bob Dylan sheet music on the floor in front of her, Baez closed her eyes and picked at random, the results of which made up the track listing. Joan Baez did illustrations for each of the songs, included in the gatefold of the album. The record went gold in 1969. The Vanguard reissue contains two bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is a song written by American musician Bob Dylan in 1967 in Woodstock, New York, during the self-imposed exile from public appearances that followed his July 29, 1966 motorcycle accident. A recording of Dylan performing the song in September 1971 was released on the ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II'' album in November of that year, marking the first official release of the song by its author. Earlier 1967 recordings of the song, performed by Dylan and the Band, were issued on the 1975 album ''The Basement Tapes'' and the 2014 album ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete''. The Byrds recorded a version of the song in 1968 and issued it as a Single (music), single. This was the first commercial release of the song, predating Dylan's own release by three years. A later cover by ex-Byrds members Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman reached the top 10 of the Hot Country Songs charts in 1989. "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" has also been covered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkin' Down The Line
"Walkin' Down the Line" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded by him in November 1962 for ''Broadside'' magazine. Dylan recorded the song again in March 1963 for his music publisher Witmark and this version was released in 1991 on ''The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991''. The lyrics recount the troubles of a hobo walking down the railroad tracks. It was sung by Arlo Guthrie at Woodstock and his performance appears on the 1994 Woodstock 25th anniversary box set. Covers *1963 - Jackie DeShannon on her debut album, ''Jackie DeShannon'' *1964 - Hamilton Camp on his album ''Paths of Victory'' *1964 - Glen Campbell on his album ''The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell'' *1964 - The Dillards on their album '' Live!!!! Almost!!! *1964 - The Goldebriars on their album ''Straight Ahead!'' *1965 - Joe & Eddie on their album ''Walkin' Down the Line'' *1965 - The Gene Norman Group on its album '' Dylan Jazz'' *1965 - Odetta on her album ''Odet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boots Of Spanish Leather
"Boots of Spanish Leather" is a ballad written and performed by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on August 7, 1963, and released in 1964 on his album '' The Times They Are a-Changin'''. It features Dylan solo on the acoustic guitar, playing the song using fingerpicking. Background and composition Dylan scholar Michael Gray sees a strong parallel between this and the traditional folk song " Blackjack Davey," which Dylan arranged and recorded for his 1992 album ''Good as I Been to You'', and in which footwear "of Spanish leather" also plays a significant role. However, comparisons are more often made between this song and the traditional ballad " Scarborough Fair" (from which Dylan's "Girl from the North Country" is also drawn), both regarding melody and lyrics, as it also consists of alternating male and female narrators. Lyrically, "Boots of Spanish Leather" is unusual in that it uses the epistolary format. It has been described as a "restless, forlorn ballad for the ages and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Shall Be Released
"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan. Dylan recorded two primary versions. The first recording was made in collaboration with the Band during the Basement Tapes sessions in 1967, and released on '' The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3'' in 1991. A remixed version of the 1967 recording was rereleased with a preliminary take on '' The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete'' in 2014. Of the initial demo, ''Rolling Stone''s Jann Wenner said, "Curiously enough the music in this song and the high pleading sound of Dylan's voice reminds one of the Bee Gees." The earliest official release of the song was by English musician Boz Burrell under the name Boz, whose version was released as a single on May 3, 1968 on Columbia. The Band recorded their version of the song for their debut album ''Music from Big Pink'', released two months later in July 1968, with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing on the chorus. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Too Many Mornings
"One Too Many Mornings" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album '' The Times They Are a-Changin''' in 1964. The chords and vocal melody are in some places very similar to the song " The Times They Are A-Changin'". "One Too Many Mornings" is in the key of C Major and is fingerpicked. Dylan recordings In addition to featuring the song on ''The Times They Are a-Changin, Dylan subsequently performed "One Too Many Mornings" in electric arrangements -- notably during his 1966 world tour and in 1976 during his second Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Dylan's May 17, 1966 live performance of the song, recorded at Manchester Free Trade Hall, was featured on The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998), while a "Rolling Thunder" version was featured on the live album ''Hard Rain'' (1976). In 2016, all Dylan's recorded live performances of the song from 1966 were released in the boxed set '' The 1966 Live Recordings'', with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Landlord
"Dear Landlord" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on November 29, 1967, at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, produced by Bob Johnston. The song was released on Dylan's album ''John Wesley Harding'' on December 27, 1967. It is a piano blues that has been interpeted as an address to his then-manager Albert Grossman. Background and recording The song is a piano blues and was Dylan's first piano song since "Ballad of a Thin Man" (1965). It was recorded on November 29, 1967, at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, produced by Bob Johnston, and was the last song recorded for ''John Wesley Harding''. It was released as the seventh track on the album, on December 27, 1967. Composition and lyrical interpretation The song's lyric "Please don't put a price on my soul" has been interpreted as a plea to his manager Albert Grossman, who was also his landlord at the time, or perhaps to his audience. In 1971, Dylan said that he did not have Grossman in min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walls Of Red Wing
"Walls of Red Wing" is a folk and protest song, written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Originally recorded for Dylan's second album, ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'',Bauldie, John, ''Linear Notes to The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3'' it was not included, and eventually attempted for his next work, '' The Times They Are a-Changin''', but, again, this version was never released. The version recorded for ''Freewheelin' '' eventually appeared on ''The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991''. The song describes a boys' reform school located in Red Wing, Minnesota. Composition Dylan based "Walls of Red Wing" on the traditional Scottish folk ballad " The Road and the Miles to Dundee", which he may have learned during his trip to London in early 1963, from other aspiring folk singers, such as Martin Carthy. In his narration, Dylan goes to describe a juvenile detention center in Red Wing, Minnesota. The description is hyperbolical, and describes the students ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Dreamed I Saw St
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural '' ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word
"Love is Just a Four-Letter Word" is a song written by Bob Dylan, first recorded by Joan Baez, who has recorded and performed the song numerous times throughout her career. Background Baez immediately took to the song, which was written by Dylan sometime around 1965, and began performing it, even before it was finished. In the film ''Dont Look Back'', a documentary of Dylan's 1965 tour of the UK, Baez is shown in one scene singing a fragment of the then apparently still unfinished song in a hotel room late at night. Pennebaker, D. A., director. ''Dont Look Back''. Docurama, 1967. She then tells Dylan, "If you finish it, I'll sing it on a record". Baez first included the song on '' Any Day Now'', her 1968 album of Dylan covers; she has since recorded it three additional times. Her 1968 recording was also released as a single, reaching #86 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart. Baez has also included the song on numerous compilations such as '' The First Ten Years'' and ''Baez Sings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a song by American singer-singwriter Bob Dylan. First released as the closing track on Dylan's 1966 album ''Blonde on Blonde'', the song lasts 11 minutes and 22 seconds, occupying the entire side four of the double album. the song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. Dylan has revealed that the song was written about his wife, Sara Lownds. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" has received considerable acclaim from music critics and songwriters. Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers wrote that "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" stands with "Mr. Tambourine Man" as "perhaps the most insidiously haunting pop song of our time". Pink Floyd songwriter Roger Waters said: "'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" sort of changed my life." Recording Bob Dylan began to record the ''Blonde on Blonde'' album in New York in October 1965. Frustrated by the slow progress in the studio, Dylan agreed to the suggestion of his producer Bob Johnston and moved to Columbia's A Stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Manuel
Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in The Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Manuel's singing alternated between a soul-influenced baritone that drew frequent comparisons to Ray Charles and a delicate falsetto. Though The Band had three vocalists sharing lead and harmony parts, Manuel was sometimes seen as the group's primary vocalist. Biography Early life and career Manuel was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. His father, Ed, was a mechanic employed at a Chrysler dealership, and his mother was a schoolteacher. He was raised with his three brothers, and the four sang in the church choir. Manuel took piano lessons beginning when he was nine, and enjoyed playing piano and rehearsing with friends at home. Some of his childhood influences were Ray Charles, Bobby Bland, Jimmy Reed and Oti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
