Bob Dylan: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Reposting an early, early entry.

Jul 07, 2023

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

December 1, 2022

I don’t know what year it was, but it was the Summer of Bob. Maybe I was thirteen. We spent our summers in Maine when we were growing up, and the first few weeks of vacation were always the same grueling chore of mowing the neglected, three-foot grass around our farmhouse with a small, pull-start mower that hadn’t self-propelled for years.

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Nathan (Slightly Colder)

Buried In the Mix: "Shelter from the Storm"

Adam Nathan

June 10, 2023

Buried In the Mix: "Shelter from the Storm"

#1 0:03 – You hear the metallic rattle of something striking the body of the guitar. This continues throughout the entire recording. A Metallic Rattling This effort with Shelter from the Storm kicked off by chance. I noticed the first of the bullets itemized below - a metallic rattling - maybe a button on Dylan’s sleeve? a pick? striking the body of the …

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Adam (Slightly Warmer)

Sweet Home Alabama

Adam Nathan

January 15, 2023

With the exception of the last song on the last day we ever played together - which we'll come to - my experience of being in a jazz band was a parade of humiliations. My musical problem - one of my musical problems - is that I can only remember four bars at any one time. Once I learn the next four bars of that same song or any other, the musical buffer…

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Adam (Slightly Warmer)

Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy

Adam Nathan

October 12, 2022

When Robbie Robertson asked Muddy Waters to participate in the filmed concert that was to become The Last Waltz, Muddy Waters agreed with the condition that Waters would bring his own rhythm section to back him. Robertson had explained during the negotiations that the idea of the concert was that

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Bob Dylan: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Reposting an early, early entry.

You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Buried In the Mix: "Shelter from the Storm"

Sweet Home Alabama

Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy

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