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Never Ending Tour 2013
The Never Ending Tour is the popular name for Bob Dylan's endless touring schedule since June 7, 1988. The 2013 tour marked the Never Ending Tour's 25th Anniversary. Background On December 3, 2012, it was stated in Isis Magazine that Dylan will be touring Asia in the Spring of 2013 with negotiations for venues being finalised. It is rumoured that the tour has been moved to the summer of 2013 alongside dates in Australia including an appearance at the Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay, New South Wales and a concert at the Sydney Opera House. However, on February 25, 2013, one concert in California, Pennsylvania was leaked at Ticketmaster. Thirteen dates for the first leg, in North America, were announced at Dylan's official website on February 27, 2013, beginning on April 5 in Buffalo, New York and currently ending in Saint Augustine, Florida on May. More concerts in the South Eastern States were added a week later. A summer tour of the US was announced in April 2013 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which comprised mainly traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' the following year. The album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Many of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Belongs To Me
"She Belongs to Me" is a song by Bob Dylan, and was first released as the second track on his 1965 album ''Bringing It All Back Home''. The song is often thought to be a metaphor for America. Recording The version of the song that appears on ''Bringing It All Back Home'' was recorded on the afternoon of January 14, 1965, and produced by Tom Wilson. Dylan performed it with the rock band that accompanied him on the songs on side one of the album, with Bruce Langhorne playing the electric guitar. Different versions of the song were recorded during the January 1965 sessions for ''Bringing It All Back Home''. Like the other love song on side one, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", "She Belongs to Me" had been recorded on January 13, 1965, in acoustic versions. An outtake featuring Dylan, Langhorne, and bassist Bill Lee—stated in the liner notes to have been recorded on January 14, but which Dylan scholar Clinton Heylin dates to January 13—was released in 2005 on '' The Bootleg Series Vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long And Wasted Years
"Long and Wasted Years" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan that appears as the fourth track on his 2012 studio album ''Tempest'' and was anthologized on the 2016 reissue of ''The Essential Bob Dylan''. Like much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. Composition and recording Unusually for a Dylan song, "Long and Wasted Years" has no musical chorus or bridge and there is no lyrical refrain. Dylan recites 10 four-line verses over a "descending chord progression that becomes relentlessly more intense" as it repeats for nearly four minutes. In their book ''Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track'', authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon synopsize the song as describing the "twilight of a couple's contentious relationship" and raise the possibility that it may be "an allusion to the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden as described in John Milton's epic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soon After Midnight
"Soon After Midnight" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan that appears as the second track on his 2012 studio album ''Tempest''. Like much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. Composition and recording "Soon After Midnight" is a love song/murder ballad hybrid. At less than three-and-a-half minutes, it is the shortest of the 10 songs on ''Tempest'' and the only example of the pre-rock pop ballad genre to be found on the album. The title is a reference to "fairy time" in William Shakespeare's play '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. In their book ''Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track'', authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon note that the song's intro owes a debt to "A New Shade of Blue" by The Bobby Fuller Four and discuss how Dylan's vocal is "sweet and gentle", taking on a "new patina that makes it less aggressive" than on other recent songs. They also praise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarlet Town
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death. The song began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier, before quickly spreading (both orally and in print) throughout Britain and Ireland and later North America. Ethnomusicologists Steve Roud and Julia Bishop described it as "far and away the most widely collected song in the English language—equally popular in England, Scotland and Ireland, and with hundreds of versions collected over the years in North America." As with most folk songs, "Barbara Allen" has been published and performed under many different titles, including "The Ballet of Barbara Allen", "Barbara Allen's Cruelty", "Barbarous Ellen", "Edelin", "Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen", "Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green", "Sir John Graham", "Bonny Barbara Allan", "Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spirit On The Water
"Spirit on the Water" is a love ballad written and performed by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in 2006 as the second track on his album '' Modern Times''. The title is a reference to a passage in the Book of Genesis. It is notable for being the only song on ''Modern Times'' to feature a harmonica solo. As with much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost. Recording Engineer Chris Shaw recalled the recording session for this song fondly as it was the first time Dylan had played harmonica on a studio recording since " Tryin' to Get to Heaven" nearly a decade before: "On '' Modern Times'', we were really excited to have Bob playing harmonica again. That was amazing – I remember sitting there thinking to myself, 'Holy shit. I’m recording Bob Dylan ''playing harmonica''. This is incredible'. I’m a jaded studio guy, y’know, I’ve been working in studios for twenty two years. But every day on ('' Love and Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forgetful Heart
"Forgetful Heart" is a minor-key blues song written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter) that appears as the fifth track on Dylan's 2009 studio album ''Together Through Life''. Like much of Dylan's 21st century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. Composition and recording Dylan scholar Tony Attwood has characterized "Forgetful Heart" as "a 12 bar blues in the minor key with some variant chords added, and without the repeated first line of the lyrics that many traditional blues songs have". Like half of the tracks on ''Together Through Life'', but uncharacteristic of most of Dylan's post- ''Time Out of Mind'' original material, it is under four minutes long and features an instrumental break with a guitar solo. In addition to Dylan, the song features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell and Stu Kimball on electric guitars, David Hidalgo on accordion, Donnie Herron on banjo, Tony Garnier on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Roman Kings
"Early Roman Kings" is a blues song written and performed by Bob Dylan that appears as the seventh track on his 2012 studio album ''Tempest''. It was also released as the album's lead single through Columbia Records on August 7, 2012. Like much of Dylan's 21st-century output, he produced the song himself using the pseudonym Jack Frost. Composition and recording The song is built on a generic riff familiar from many blues recordings, notably Muddy Waters "Mannish Boy", Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man" and Bo Diddley's " I'm a Man", but it has drawn praise for Dylan's humorous, original lyrics and committed performance. Writer Lloyd Fonvielle, in an online essay, noted the song's relationship to the Chicago blues and how David Hidalgo's accordion part replaces the part that would traditionally be occupied by a harmonica and/or guitar. He claims this transposition gives the track the feeling of a "ghost blues". Lyrically, Fonvielle sees the song as "a kind of road map to the ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple Twist Of Fate
"Simple Twist of Fate", a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, was recorded on September 19, 1974, and was released in 1975 as the second song on his 15th studio album ''Blood on the Tracks''. Background and composition "Simple Twist of Fate" is a narrative song about a romantic relationship destined not to work out. Like "Tangled Up in Blue", which it immediately follows on "Blood on the Tracks", it is unusual in that it begins in the third person before shifting into the first. The song has been interpreted variously as being inspired by Suze Rotolo, Joan Baez and Sara Dylan. Dylan has continually revised the lyrics in live performance over the decades (through to its most recent outing in 2021 on the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour). The song was written in the key of E major and features a descending melody line, with a chord structure almost identical to the verses of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Frankie Valli's 1967 hit by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. Dyla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Water (For Charley Patton)
"High Water (For Charley Patton)" is a song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released as the seventh track on his 31st studio album '' "Love and Theft"'' in 2001 and anthologized on the compilation album ''Dylan'' in 2007. Like much of Dylan's 21st century output, he produced the track himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost. The song draws its title from Charley Patton's "High Water Everywhere", and is meant as a tribute to that bluesman although Dylan scholar Tony Attwood notes that the song, both musically and lyrically, has little point of contact with the original Patton work. Composition and recording Lyrically, "High Water (For Charley Patton)" is similar to Dylan's 1983 song "Blind Willie McTell" and his 2020 song "Goodbye Jimmy Reed" in that it pays tribute to the titular blues singer only indirectly. In spite of the title, and references to the Blues in the lyrics, the song is not itself a blues but rather a three-chord banjo-driven folk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Sick (Bob Dylan Song)
"Love Sick" is a minor-key love song by American musician and Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. It was recorded in January 1997 and appears as the opening track on his 30th studio album '' Time Out of Mind'' (1997). It was released as the second single from the album in June 1998 in multiple CD versions, some of which featured Dylan's live performance of the song at the 1998 Grammy Awards. The song was produced by Daniel Lanois. Composition and recording Dylan scholar Tony Attwood characterizes "Love Sick" as the "ultimate, absolute, total, complete lost love song" and "the strangest way ever to start an album – starting with what appears to be the end". Attwood notes that the song's point is revealed in the opening line: "it is the streets that are dead. Not Bob, not his relationship, but the entire world around him. He is walking through nothingness. He has no thoughts". The song is performed in the key of E minor and Attwood sees the desolate lyrical landscape as being reflected i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangled Up In Blue
"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the opening track on his 15th studio album ''Blood on the Tracks'' (1975). The song was written by Dylan and produced by David Zimmerman, Dylan's brother. Released as a single, it reached No. 31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song concerns relationships and contains different narrative perspectives. Dylan has altered the lyrics in subsequent performances, changing the point of view and details in the song. The track was initially recorded in September 1974, but later re-recorded on 30 December of that year at Sound 80 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The latter version was released on ''Blood on the Tracks'' on 20 January 1975. The song received widespread acclaim from music critics, with particular praise for the lyrics. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it No. 68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. A number of alternate versions have been released, including multiple studio out- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
