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Underrated folk artist. Great lyrics. He did a whole album of Springsteen covers that goes surprisingly hard, and he covered Chelsea Hotel before it was cool.
Table Cloth, Nothing To Say, Falling In Love With Your Best Friend, the list goes on.
Mar 20, 2024
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A whole album of Springsteen covers that puts the emphasis on the poetry and melody of his werk. I could only do Nebraska before but this opened by ears, mind, and heart to The Boss. Only available on YouTube, they will never get those permissions but dear lord, this is a no skips work of art. Tougher Than the Rest is my song but everything is so beautifu.
May 1, 2024
I love âDesolation Row,â and Iâm always happy when Bob passes the ten minute mark. we got:
âKey West (Philosopher Pirate)â â a dreamy meditation on life and finding meaning in the margins on the world
âSad-eyed Lady of the Lowlandsââ the worldâs prettiest haunted love song
âBrownsville Girlâ â in running for funniest song ever. a guy describing a movie he canât quite remember, and a road trip with a lost love, while the stories bleed together like repeating dreams. made complete by Kanye-style blasts of gospel choir.
âHighlandsâ â a guy wanders around and flirts/argues with a diner waitress? ok idk this one is for the heads.
And of course âMurder Most Foulâ â
17 minutes of Fiona Apple piano and Bob narrating the moment of JFKâs demise, a nation betrayed and sentenced to pay, its cultural history collapsing in on itself at the start of a new age.
Oct 8, 2024
A little overlooked and a little maligned as being part of that period in Bobâs career (starting after the motorcycle incident) where he ended his streak of revolutionary albums (that had his contemporaries in a constant chokehold from â63-â66), and instead began turning inwards; a little more pastoral, a little more run-down and homey. Whatever, he couldâve stopped after Visions of Johanna, anything after is a blessing. It pains me when people treat this as pedestrian or unessential music. Close to John Wesley Harding in sound and aesthetic but more honest and not as interested in folk-mythmaking. This is like his McCartney, total domestic bliss and joie de vivre. Sign On The Window is my favourite.
Hopefully gets some reappraisal after Timmy covered Three Angels on SNL.
Feb 10, 2025
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a brief moment of comfort in this cold corporate existence
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What happens behind the wheel is, frankly, none of my business. I'd rather spend my time picking songs/sipping coffee/taking in the scene.
Driving is so pedestrian.
Mar 21, 2024
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I swear to god this shit is too powerful. It doesnât always work out the way I hoped but the win/loss ratio is definitely in my favour. We are social creatures. We like helping each other. Just do it. Ask me for something if you want. Who knows what Iâll say.
Jan 20, 2025