Doom & Gloom From the Tomb

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Just A Song & Dance Man Our previous Neil Young covers post featured none other than Bob Dylan tackling “Old Man,” so I thought I’d share the entire comp from which that curiosity came. Just A Song & Dance Man collects the weird/wonderful covers Dylan performed live during the weird/wonderful year of 2002. It starts off predictably enough, with a handful of folk/gospel/country numbers — the sort of stuff that’s been Bob’s bread and butter during the Neverending Tour days. But then things start to get strange. There are no less than four Warren Zevon tunes (it had just been announced that Zevon was dying of cancer), including a wrenching rendition of “Mutineer.” There’s the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” — Bob’s joking attempt at sounding “like a Rolling Stone”? There’s a poignant reading of Van Morrison’s “Carrying A Torch.” Oddest of all, Bob and his band play Don Henley’s “End of the Innocence,” perhaps giving some in the audience hope that Henley, too, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer (kidding, Don, love ya, never change!). Finally, there’s a touching tribute to the then-recently deceased George Harrison, as Dylan sings his heart out on “Something.” All in all, it makes for a fun, unpredictable listen. http://www.sendspace.com/file/f8shwc

Just A Song & Dance Man

Our previous Neil Young covers post featured none other than Bob Dylan tackling “Old Man,” so I thought I’d share the entire comp from which that curiosity came. Just A Song & Dance Man collects the weird/wonderful covers Dylan performed live during the weird/wonderful year of 2002. It starts off predictably enough, with a handful of folk/gospel/country numbers — the sort of stuff that’s been Bob’s bread and butter during the Neverending Tour days. But then things start to get strange. There are no less than four Warren Zevon tunes (it had just been announced that Zevon was dying of cancer), including a wrenching rendition of “Mutineer.” There’s the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” — Bob’s joking attempt at sounding “like a Rolling Stone”? There’s a poignant reading of Van Morrison’s “Carrying A Torch.” Oddest of all, Bob and his band play Don Henley’s “End of the Innocence,” perhaps giving some in the audience hope that Henley, too, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer (kidding, Don, love ya, never change!). Finally, there’s a touching tribute to the then-recently deceased George Harrison, as Dylan sings his heart out on “Something.” All in all, it makes for a fun, unpredictable listen.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/f8shwc

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