Jet Pilot - Bob Dylan (1966)
What could have inspired the lyrics to this blues-jam excerpted from the Blonde On Blonde sessions? Did Bob have some sort of secret tryst with a cross-dressing airman?
Bob only knows.
Happy 70th, Mr. Zimmerman.
Lock Your Door - Bob Dylan & The Band (1967)
Echoing out from the deepest recesses of the Big Pink basement, Dylan & his brilliant cohorts belt out this ragged fragment. Sounds like it was recorded three rooms away.
While far from being the most revelatory or compelling track cut during the reclusive sessions, I think it wraps up the spirit of their process pretty well in an untidy ball of rags. If that makes any sense.
Anyway, let me apologize to all 124 of you who wait attentively at your Dashboards day after day for the newest shortsong. We’ve been busy with our respective lives, apparently and will try to keep up with each and every one of our loverly followers….
Talking Devil - Blind Boy Grunt (1963)
Early in his recording career, Robert Zimmerman made several recordings administered and paid for by the folk magazine Broadside. For copyright and just-for-the-hell-of-it obscurity, this smattering of recordings was released under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt.
Others pseudonyms Bob Dylan has used over the years have included Bob Landy, Tedham Porterhouse, Robert Milkwood Thomas and, more recently, Jack Frost.
Despite the attempt at obscurity, there’s no mistaking that it’s Dylan on this hastily recorded snippet.
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