Monday, May 24, 2021

80 Years of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan turns 80 today and I’ve been a fan for about half that time. My first Dylan album (I think) was Oh, Mercy, unless it was some kind of greatest hits package that I’ve since forgotten. As big a fan as I am, I still haven’t digested his entire catalog but below are my favorite 80 songs (in no particular order). Happy Birthday, Bob!

Happy 80th, Bob!











Sara

Up to Me

Not Dark Yet

Standing in the Doorway

You Angel You

Shooting Star

If You See Her, Say Hello

The Times They Are A-Changin’

What Was It You Wanted

Let Me Die in My Footsteps

Shelter from the Storm

Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart

You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

I Believe in You

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

You’re a Big Girl Now

Seven Curses

Positively 4th Street

When the Deal Goes Down

Born in Time

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

Meet Me in the Morning

Idiot Wind

It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

Unbelievable

Man in the Long Black Coat

Percy’s Song

Under the Red Sky

Desolation Row

You Changed My Life

Where Teardrops Fall

Hurricane

Every Grain of Sand

Love Sick

Gotta Serve Somebody

If Not for You

Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue

Masters of War

Like a Rolling Stone

Blowin’ in the Wind

I Shall Be Released

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Buckets of Rain

Abandoned Love

Disease of Conceit

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

I Want You

Lay Lady Lay

Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues

What Good Am I?

Everything Is Broken

It Ain’t Me Babe

Things Have Changed

Political World

Forever Young

Heart of Mine

Girl from the North Country

Isis

Til I Fell in Love with You

The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

Tryin’ to Get to Heaven

Highway 61 Revisited

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Song to Woody

Most of the Time

Simple Twist of Fate

Lord Protect My Child 

One More Cup of Coffee

Ring Them Bells

Tangled Up in Blue

Ballad of a Thin Man

Dignity

Ye Shall Be Changed

Tombstone Blues

Golden Loom

Thunder on the Mountain

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

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