Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues (Discs 5 & 6)
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Bob Dylan (with the Band) | Going Going Gone | |
| Bob Dylan (with the Band) | Forever Young | |
| Bob Dylan (with the Band) | Dirge | |
| Bob Dylan | Wedding Song | |
| Bob Dylan | Tangled Up in Blue [NYC version] | |
| Bob Dylan | You're a Big Girl Now [NYC version] | |
| Bob Dylan | You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go | |
| Bob Dylan | Shelter from the Storm | |
| Bob Dylan | Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts [NYC version] | |
| Bob Dylan | Simple Twist of Fate | |
| Bob Dylan | Idiot Wind [NYC version sans organ] | |
| Bob Dylan | One More Cup of Coffee | |
| Bob Dylan | Sara | |
| Bob Dylan | Isis | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Bob Dylan | Hurricane | |
| Bob Dylan with the Rolling Thunder Revue | Romance in Durango [Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, 11/20/75] | |
| Bob Dylan | New Pony | |
| Bob Dylan | Baby, Stop Crying | |
| Bob Dylan | Angelina | |
| Bob Dylan | Every Grain of Sand | |
| Bob Dylan | Blind Willie McTell | |
| Bob Dylan | Love Sick | |
| Bob Dylan | Highlands | |
| Bob Dylan | Rollin' and Tumblin' | |
| Bob Dylan | Thunder on the Mountain | |
Comment:
The last volume. Again, discs 1 & 2 have a more detailed explanation. I do want to add, however, that skipping so many years (approximately 15, in fact) on disc 6 was not intentional; in fact, I even like the oft-maligned Christian albums and Down in the Groove [although I don't get what to me seems to be the "Emperor's New Clothes" appreciation for the folk covers albums from the '90s, Oh Mercy and, to a lesser extent (because I've mellowed on this album since its release), Love & Theft]. When it comes down to it, though, I just don't like anything from that period enough to unseat any of the other picks (that said, in response to doowad's comment, "Angelina" is from the Shot of Love sessions and "Every Grain of Sand" is from the Shot of Love album, so I did nod in the direction of the Christian stuff). Last tracks cut: "Positively 4th Street," "Sign on the Cross," "Nothing Was Delivered," "Pledging My Time," the Before the Flood version of "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," "You Ain't Going Nowhere," "Jokerman," "All I Really Want to Do," "Country Pie," "Boots of Spanish Leather," "Only a Hobo," "Wallflower," "Up to Me"... the list could go on. That said, I'm very happy with this 6-disc set and now cannot fathom updating it again.Feedback:
Dirge and Wedding Song are great bookends of emotion on that album. I'm happy to see Every Grain of Sand there. I think this is where my Dylan freak flag flies because I couldn't have left off the heavy-Christian albums or some samples from your gap there. And that is why my only Dylan tributes are either implied tributes or his worst songs.
Good god - you are one crazy musicologist. Hey man, I plan to be in Pgh next weekend (FB/TR show at the BBT, y'know). Maybe see ya Friday or so.
since we last spoke, i've gotten my hands on the full NYC of blood on the tracks & have fallen in love with it. so i obviously love those picks. "one more cup of coffee" & "sara" are some of my favorite dylan songs, & i love "love sick," "highlands" & "thunder on the mountain" here the most. it is a shame to skip such a big chunk of his career, but the choices you've made are pretty unassailable...
Yeah, all six discs just swell with great stuff. Kudos for the care and effoer involved in these projects.
Here are my Dylan single-artist mixes: here and here.
Again, impeccable work here, Rob.
Again, impeccable work here, Rob.