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Friday, June 02, 2006
Real LiveI don't know why I never stumbled across this before, but the best part of Bob Dylan's website is the Performances and Rare Recordings page. The old crow's people have posted terrific recent versions of "Ring Them Bells" and "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," in RealPlayer format, along with an absolutely kickass cover of "A Simple Twist of Fate" by Jerry Garcia. The Grateful Dead bores me most of the time; I still have bad memories of their 15-minute cover of "Louie, Louie." But this song brings Garcia out of his usual stoned-guitar rut, and his voice sounds so coarse and sweet that the cover almost beats the original. (Almost.) The only man who does a better cover song, in general, is Johnny Cash.
Most people know I'm an incorrigible Dylan fan.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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