Expecting Rain

hmm. I guess I don't see where using words that rhyme is any type of conclusive evidence. He's been pretty good at rhyming before this discovery I'm not saying it couldn't be true.

http://youtu.be/CiShjSrGsPk

The spanish lyrics on this cover are a fuc*kin' shit!!!!

Brilliant version!

Nobody sings Dylan like Bobby

http://youtu.be/jBB3i-HsqUI

As is the fact that the video is blocked for me.

I will sing it for you soon, fu*ck the websheriff!!

I'm looking forward.... that '96 version was great, that one worked for me.

@raging_glory: I think it is very hard to get conclusive evidence of many things regarding Bob, unless he borrows complete lines or phrases or pictures from other works.

Any analysis of Street-Legal that doesn't account for the fact that it was recorded shortly after Elvis passed away in 1977 is incomplete. Bob's mourning the loss of Elvis and his reminiscing about the Vegas-style shows with big brassy bands were a huge influence on this record. Some songs may have been in the works before Elvis actually dead, but many were written afterward and all the instrumentation and recording was done afterward. He even started performing in all white suits.

I don't know about that... I think Bob has said before that he only cared about the early memphis sun records with the stripped down rockabilly sound. If he'd been mourning Elvis he'd have done a rockabilly record. I think the sound of the E street band is a bigger influence.

That's a very good point, CodeExaminer, and certainly one that warrants a closer look at. Jerry Sheff who used to play with Elvis toured with Dylan in '78.

With regard to that, I shall have another look at the time line Heylin established for the writing of these songs.... not that I consider him omniscient.

I think Street Legal was the start for his voice worsening

It was recorded in the middle of a world tour, remember, when his previous three albums had been recorded at less stressful times for his voice.

nah....

Correct. Peak of his coke abuse, start of the decline.

Newbies to these forums could easily come to suppose you were his personal dealer.

That's what modern day Bob said about Elvis's Sun records and everything Bob has ever done has been influenced by that Sun/Chess sound, especially his 60s albums and all of his albums of the last decade or two. But the whole Street-Legal tour was based on a Vegas-style Elvis show. See At Budokan. Bob wasn't wearing a full-body white jumper suit for Springsteen.

You cannot limit Bob to any one single influence at any time. Even at his most Guthriesque times there were other influences.

It is an odd one. It is probably one of his worst as well as one of his best albums, both at the same time. Which is why it's amongst my top three favourite ones.

Get out. Just leave, please. Now.

It's probably in my top 8, just.

Sure is. Along with Blood on the Tracks and New Morning.

I also believe Budokan is his best non-Bootleg Series live album and will stand by that until the day I won't stand by it any more.

In fact, probably only '75 trumps it.

Apart from his upbringing in the 1940s and '50s, do you suppose Bob has any other issues that cause him to reduce women in his songs to homemakers awaiting him back from his travels?