I'm surprised that no one big has covered this Dylan song. But it is from "that" 1979 album.
Mark Knopfler plays guitar on it. They toured together a year or so ago when I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl.
Bob Dylan - Precious Angel by butterflyah
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The song cut off to play an ad... it did gave me the choice to skip it.
a theory...
Dylan got other artist to cover his songs by recording them so... what's the word I'm looking for? 'alternately' (ugly) that they may have felt they were rescuing the song. thereby getting the best out of those artists... I'm supposing that more artistry, artistic effort, goes into performing something of your own as opposed to something somebody hands you, something that somebody else wrote.
Or maybe he didn't set out to do that premeditatedly. it just happened on it's own as a result of people acting on their best interest.
Dylan sang them out of a repudiation, protest... who knows.
Hitchens wrote a book about him. He probably wrote about it.
Hitchens wrote a book about him. He probably wrote about it
I didn't know that, Lem.
Hitchens is a voice I could probably learn to do.
Dylan's covers are really great, too. It's rare he if he doesn't make it better or show more to the song than the original artist.
Lem -
Can you provide the name of the Hitchens book or essay on Dylan?
Upon further review, it looks like I may have gotten Hitchens confused with another Christopher...
Dylan’s Visions of Sin
I was mistaken.
Kudos to Lem for the proper response and retracting.
It's rare in the blogosphere where being wrong is seen as being weak -- that is falsetto machismo.
But still -- assuming I can master the voice -- who is up to writing posthumous lines for Hitchens?
I give it a 93, it has a good beat and you can dance to it :)
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