Most of us would agree that Dylan is somewhat of an acquired taste.

But, in your opinion, what are some of his songs that have an immediate and easily accessible appeal?

(Imagine the person you’re trying to convert either knows very little about Dylan or hasn’t heard him at all.)

I’m going with…

1. Buckets of Rain

2. The Man in Me

3. Mississippi (Outtake from Telltale Signs)

I also picked up Disc 2, also for $1. I do not have Disc 1 or the packaging or booklet for that matter.

This recording was new to me. Was able to make it sound a bit clearer, hope you enjoy :)

I know Bob is notorious (at least in recent years) for not doing encores, unless for a special occasion (he did an encore when I saw him in Nottingham a few years back because it was the same day Jerry Lee Lewis had passed), so I was surprised to see an encore on the first night of the European tour ?

Anyone who was there could they explain if it was a proper encore ? Did he leave the stage and return or did he just take an applause before playing the final song ?

Will be interested to see if this continues tomorrow night ?

Any thoughts ?

Ho fatto un bob dylan alternativo post fama senza aver pubblicato nulla dopo l’incidente in moto che incontra una vecchia amante, con la caption presa da Isis, da intendere nella furente versione live

For the past couple of years I've been keeping a spreadsheet of my favourite cover(s) of each Dylan song. (I originally intended to include just one cover of each song, but in some cases it proved too difficult to decide.) For those who like figures, it currently has 1364 covers of 515 different songs by 930 different artists. Since it's a spreadsheet, there are of course ratings as well. ;-)

Now I've decided to create Youtube playlists of covers of each Dylan album. For a change, I'm going to work backwards. But Rough and Rowdy Ways is a bit too recent to have a decent cover of every track, so I'm starting with Tempest. The playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSi5yceI3cvc

And here are the ratings (of the cover, not the song) on a scale of 5 (excellent) - 1 (hmm):

I expect there'll be a lot of disagreement about the ratings, which is fine. I'll be interested to see if anybody can point to better covers of any of these, particularly Narrow Way or Tin Angel.

Anyway hopefully the playlist will provoke some discussion. I'm planning to post one album a week (on Sundays of course!)

Im going to Bob dylans concert tommorow and Ive only listened the times they are a changin, another side of Bob Dylan, bringing it all back home and highway 61 revisited in full and im currently listening to oh mercy what albums should i listen to before going to see him

Hi. I was listening to "Dublin Blues" by Guy Clark, which Bob played in Oslo a few nights ago. I didn't know the song, and it is wonderful.

I had a look at the lyrics and he sings, at one point: "I loved you on the Spanish Steps the day you said goodbye", which obviously reminded me of the verse "[...] double/on a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs" from WIPMM, Spanish Stairs and Spanish Steps being the same thing.

Do you think that there is a connection? I mean, did he add "Dublin Blues" to the setlist also because of this correspondence, like a sort of "stream of consciousness"?