“I hate that album,” Linda RonstadttoldRolling Stonein reference to her 1970 country LPSilk Purse.“I couldn’t sing then; I didn’t know what I was doing.” But for Ronstadt, one track was an exception: “Long Long Time.” Written by Gary White, it’s a heart-shattering tale of...
D’Angelo, and The Who, while Mills has produced albums by Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, and John Legend.Notes with Attachmentsis the first album to come out with both their names on the cover, but this
There are a vanishingly small few songs ever written that feel as if they come from beyond this world. This is one such song. It speaks to truths that exceed our own limited understanding. And you can’t help but think that there must be so much more out there somewhere, if only we ...
Dylan‘s finest ballad is not a love song. “Just Like a Woman” is a complex portrait of adoration and disappointment, written as vengeance but sung as regret. Dylan never revealed a specific inspiration for the woman indicted. (Dylanologists often cite Andy Warhol’s star-crossed protégée...
The song Workingman's Blues #2 was written by Bob Dylan and was first released by Bob Dylan in 2006. It was covered by Stewart Michaels and Chris Dylan.
“Sally Sue Brown”(1960)He co-wrote the song, and it was later covered by Bob Dylan. “You Better Move On” (1961)He wrote the song. It was later covered bythe Rolling Stones. “Soldier of Love” (1962)It was later covered by the Beatles. ...
Hit version by Robert Palmer with UB40 (UK #6/CAN #58/IRE #6/AUS #4/NZ #1/SUI #5/NETH #4 1990). From the wiki: “‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ was written by Bob Dylan in 1967, and first released on the alb umJohn Wesley Harding. He first performed the song in concert...
Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed. He finally stopped playing "Teen Spirit" for good...
"This is called 'a sacrilegious lullaby in D minor,'" Dylan joked to his audience on Halloween 1964 at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Written in the early summer and recorded in one take the following winter, the acoustic B side to "Like a Rolling Stone" features some of his spookiest ...
The song, co-written with regular collaborator Tommie Walker, has a pulsating funky melody and features his musical backing group Radical For Christ. Bob Dylan: Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour Fanny Crosby, who was known as the Queen Of Gospel Song Writers, wrote this song in 1868. More than...