Since Dylan's back catalogue was removed from Spotify last year it looks like a fair few tracks have reappeared on various compilations, enabling this more than decent Spotify playlist. Enjoy:

http://www.spotiguide.com/2010/03/bob-dylan-spotiguide-playlist-on-spoti...

Absolutely Sweet Marie by Bob Dylan.

"Well, your railroad gate, you know I just can't jump it
Sometimes it gets so hard, you see
I'm just sitting here beating on my trumpet
With all these promises you left for me
But where are you tonight, sweet Marie?"

Found this on UTube..

Hi. I'm just listening to Bob Dylan singing Visions of Joanna ... I think the version I picked up on the internet is from one of the old bootlegs because it has a slight sound fade halfway thru, and I remember that because I have the bootleg tucked up in the roofspace with most my vinyl albums. I've also just finished filling in the World questionaire about vinyl and left blank the last questions: there is a fire in your house, which would you safe first .. CDs or vinyl. I wouldn't know what to do ... I love them both and they are different ... once I could only get what I wanted on vinyl, then the world switched to CD and then downloading. So, as you can imagine, I have a big collection of both. I have an even bigger collection of Bob Dylan on vinyl and CD, so I imagine that is what I would try and grab after I had made sure my darling wife and family were safe and sound. Bobstuff and others can always be re-bought! So, there ... that's enough for the moment. I'd like to put up some pix, but can't see how that can be done ... maybe, I will be told by someone. Cheers and best wishes.

Dylan has covered very few songs in his official recordings.My favourates would be
Days of 49 - self portrait
Baby let me follow you down - the last waltz

I am sure there are lots out there in youtube land so could i have some good examples please

This may be of interest and I have no idea if it's the case in other branches or on the web but I was just in HMV Grafton Street and picked up the 3cd deluxe set of Dylan's Tell Tale Signs for €21.99, a price drop of over €100! Can't beat that.

this time little drummer boy - a collage of painted images quite enjoyable

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=pe_35060_13799200_pe_04/?docId...

it reminded me of his jokerman video which was simply excellent

Lot of chat elsewhere about Dylan's look in the new Christmas video but, as Bob-watchers will know, he's got previous:

In Cross The Green Mountain video

At the Masked & Anonymous premier at Sundance.

At the Newport Folk Festival 2002

Just wondering.

There are times when I wish I had a keener mind.

Listening to a past podcast on a drive back from Newcastle last night, I heard the discussion between DH & Fraser regarding the criticism of Bob Dylan’s Festive Album. And then it struck me – I wish I’d heard the podcast earlier (jetlag gets the blame), just so I could post this line on the blog at a time when it was still relevant.

“… and then you go and spoil it all by saying stupid like I love Yule”

What are the things that make you mutter to yourself “Don’t you just hate it when…”?

it's a punky reggae party!
headed down to digbeth, to the rainbow pub last night to see "the slits" perform.
it's been 30 years now, since their seminal "cut" album was released, and it's been re-released(again... i have a previous cd version of it, with a couple of extra b-sides thrown in), now with additional demos and the likes... sounds worth buying all over again(singer ari-up was at pains to point out that the demos exhonerated them from the myth that they couldn't really play and that it was all down to the producer.).
i was there when it first came out, heard "typical girls" on david "kid" jenson's evening indie show on radio 1... and the next day was in the record shop handing over my pocket money for the album... it was a revelation for me, punk energy and dub-reggae gloominess, lots of shouting... liberating - i fell in love with the album!
with the band's associates of the highest punk royality: guitarist viv was dating mick jones, ex-drummer palmolive dated joe strummer, singer ari-up's mum marrying johnny rotten, budgie drumming on the album... "cut" is the perfect partner itself to Pil's "metal box", only slightly madder, and dare i say poppier!
there is even one song about keith levine on there...
"he is a boy, he's very slim..."
a few years later when i got myself a gig as a dj, i would slip the odd slits song into the usual early 80's alternative sounds... and they would boom out with this BIG dub bassline that i'd never experienced with my crappy little home stereo... i like to think i converted a few people on those nights.

but here we all are, 30 years on... older but none the wiser, and i'm standing in a pub surrounded by old punks, crusty types, young hipsters in PiL t-shirts and lots of earnest young people who weren't even born when i was hunting down copies of the slits "first" proper album "Y3" on the vinyl grapevine back in the far-off pre-internet days.

first up were support band "the courtesy group"
http://www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup
local noise merchants, sounding like a pissed-off version of the pixies, at times... which is definately a good thing!

the slits came onto rapturous applause, and even though there are only two original members, Ari and Tessa... with a crew of talented instrumentalists, they sound better than ever.

I have to admit to having been a Bob Dylan fan since 1965 and, possibly, to me, he is equaled only by the Fab Four however I heard some of his Christmas album today!!!!

He is having a laugh isn't he?!?! The man cannot be serious!!!

Listen to 30 second samples of all the tracks from Bob's forthcoming Christmas album here.

Brace yourselves.

if true curiouser and curiouser

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/08/26/first-look-bo...