Bob Dylan - Favorite Outtakes and Others
Yeah - I've blogged about him before. But, he turns 70 this week. Here are 7 Dylan songs I love
1. Highway 61 Revisited - Title track of one of his best albums. It's a blow-up of a song - a cast of characters who find salvation in different ways - all on Highway 61.
2. If Not For You - Appeared on 1970 album "New Morning". Not very well known album. Song is a straight ahead love song. Biograph
3. Visions of Johanna - Wow. Stand-out song on stand-out Blonde on Blonde album. I prefer the live versions found on and the Live 1966 albums. A wealth of poetic imagery piles up one on another.
4. Up To Me - How this stayed off the Blood on the Tracks album is beyond me. Only available on the Biograph 3 CD set - this song is just such a moving gem. One line of many that are amazing: " If I’d lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died."
5. Percy's Song - Another outtake - this time off the Times They Are A'Chang