Old Retired Guy Blog
October 26, 2010
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Mr. Tambourine ManI think the first song I heard him sing was The Times They Are a-Changing. His voice was strange but his lyrics were compelling. Later I was surprised to find out that he wrote some of my favorite Peter, Paul and Mary songs like Blowin' in the Wind and Don't Think Twice, It's All Right. Their renditions were beautiful; his were earthy. I didn't quite know how to take the voice, but some of his songs like Positively 4th Street and Like a Rolling Stone really caught my fancy. He shocked his folk music fans by going electric in the mid-sixties, but I thought his songs got even better. They had a wider range of styles and sounds. But, the lyrics were still great.
Well, last night I finally got a chance to see him perform at the Overture Center in Madison. The show sold out so fast that they added a second performance at 10 PM. Even for that show I was in the second-to-last row. I thought that the overall sound of the venue was a little rough at first but seemed to get better as the show progressed. There were five guys with him in his band and they covered songs that spanned nearly 50 years. Did I mention that I like some of his lyrics? If you want to look some up, just go to BobDylan.com. I can't close, however, without including a few. "I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes,
-- Positively 4th Street "May your hands always be busy. May your feet always be swift.
-- Forever Young "You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." -- Subterranean Homesick Blues "I met one man who was wounded in love -- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall "Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
-- Mr. Tambourine Man
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