...I wrote a song for you. Well, I didn't - David Bowie did. Hunky Dory's Song For Bob Dylan is a cracker, but I digress (before I even got started, how unusual)! To get to the point, it was Bob Dylan's 70th birthday a coupla weeks back and I've been in a bit of a reflective mode.

May 24th I dubbed #DylanTuesday and spent a large part of that day playing only Dylan songs in the house/car/iPod. For some reason, I wanted to preserve the songs that had been played that day for prosperity, so here they are, in the order they were played:

Gates of Eden
My Wife's Home Town
She Belongs To Me
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
When The Deal Goes Down
Blowin' In The Wind
It's All Good
From a Buick 6
Girl From The North Country
Tombstone Blues
Nettie Moore
If Not For You
Jokerman
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Million Miles
Just Like A Woman
Make You Fell My Love
Ain't Talkin'
High Water
All Along The Watchtower
Forever Young
Someday Baby
Till I Fell In Love With You
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Lay Lady Lay (live 1976 version)
Sara
I Want You
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Mozambique
Song To Woody
It Ain't Me Babe
Ballad of a Thin Man
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Mr Tambourine Man
Subterranean Homesick Blues
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Most Like You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Like a Rolling Stone
Queen Jane Approximately
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Shelter From The Storm
Obviously 5 Believers
Temporary Like Achilles
Thunder On The Mountain
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Mississippi
Gotta Serve Somebody
Everything Is Broken
Pledging My Time
Summer Days

Oh yeah, that was a good day. I was quite stoked to get my latest copy of Rolling Stone magazine in the mail and see Bob on the cover. Not only that, his 50 Best Songs (as picked by his peers) were inside! Awesome stuff. I've been savouring that article...so I haven't read it yet. I think I might be ready soon though; be very interesting to see who picked what. 

All this talk about Dylan reminds me that I haven't written part two of my Blues n Roots blog yet either. In a cruel twist of fate, I'd actually finished it a coupla days after loading the first part, but a silly login drama wiped it all at 2am on a Thursday morning. I'm sure if it had been a more civilised hour, I would have screamed. So, I've been putting off writing it. Should dust that off really...I hate not having part two out there...makes it all feel unfinished. 

Despite all the bad press Dylan got for his performance at Blues n Roots, I really enjoyed it, and I'm sure many others did. I've been lucky enough to see Bob twice, and both times I've known what I was in for. Hey, he's a grumpy bugger who does what he wants and plays what he wants. If he wants to play A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall in 3/4 time, then dammit, he's going to play A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall in 3/4 time. He doesn't NEED an audience anymore. Don't go to see Dylan and expect a nice, neat and tidy greatest hits set. He doesn't look back. Respect. Happy 70th birthday, Zimmy!