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Dustin Lowman
United States
Приєднався 14 чер 2015
🎸 Singer/songwriter
👻 Ghostwriter
📍 Brooklyn, NY
Dustin Lowman writes antisensical songs: lyric-driven tunes intended to illuminate and deconstruct the nonsense of living. He is a self-taught singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and lyricist who patterns his style on troubadour types - Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Man, Adrienne Lenker, Cass McCombs. Based in Brooklyn, Dustin performs regularly at venues in the borough, and has also appeared at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, IL, the Bitter End in Manhattan, and the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, CT.
👻 Ghostwriter
📍 Brooklyn, NY
Dustin Lowman writes antisensical songs: lyric-driven tunes intended to illuminate and deconstruct the nonsense of living. He is a self-taught singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and lyricist who patterns his style on troubadour types - Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Man, Adrienne Lenker, Cass McCombs. Based in Brooklyn, Dustin performs regularly at venues in the borough, and has also appeared at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, IL, the Bitter End in Manhattan, and the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, CT.
I Ranked All Of Bob Dylan's 1960s Studio Albums
As a Bob Dylan scholar, it's my duty to tell the world exactly how good each of his albums is. Whether you're just getting into Bob Dylan or already have opinions on all of these albums, you've come to the right place.
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Dustin Lowman | "On My Side"
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Little song about feeling like the world doesn't want from you what you want to give it. You can listen to a studio recording that has lots of harmonies on it here: open.spotify.com/track/2C429uF8S5xcxE7IDKG8tm?si=439cb9ae40a4448a Instagram: dustinlowmanmusic Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5rr3v4bDNCBZlR47QwNVJq?si=yZZNq_wBTFaU8wzoDrP-wA Shot by Mod Schwalbe: modschwalbe.com/ O...
Dustin Lowman | "Lucky Stars" | Live @ Jalopy Theatre 7/12/2024
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Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5rr3v4bDNCBZlR47QwNVJq?si=XWfBHMFJR6mRL4uPu-nu5A Follow on Instagram: dustinlowmanmusic Lucky Stars Well, you like your flowers like you like your men Fragrant and full-lipped and stiff in the stem Tell me, baby, are you lonely too? What good am I if I'm not good for you? I'd like to take you on a dinner date I'd like to touch you with t...
Dustin Lowman - Searching For My Twin (Official Video)
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“Searching For My Twin” | OFFICIAL VIDEO Stream here: open.spotify.com/album/2xAQC1zUjRjo89Nmc93mDl?si=PZ_m1G-wT66tzjFBydnJuQ Follow on Instagram: dustinlowmanmusic So many wonderful people lent their help to this video, in front of and behind the camera: ACTORS: Diane Meyer Lowman (@dilo922) Dhilan Lowman (@dhilan.lowman) Samira Lowman (@samiralowman) Devon Lowman Donald Lowman ...
Dustin Lowman | Searching For My Twin | Live @ Jalopy Theatre, 4/12/2024
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Searching For My Twin I've got on my back my big black coat Got in my hand a ten-buck note I'll buy myself a ticket someplace, that I've never been Greyhound bus, pull in slow Blowing smoke and tracking snow The fare is fair, and so away I go, searching for my twin Searching for my twin, lord, lord Searching for my twin There's a man someplace who's got my face And I'm searching for him Well, i...
Dustin Lowman - A Little Green Left (Official Video)
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"A Little Green Left" - Dustin Lowman Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/5rr3v4bDNCBZlR47QwNVJq?si=L6vWQGiJQne5ck31l1SU7w Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/a-little-green-left-single/1736802563 Instagram: dustinlowmanmusic Facebook: DustinLowman/ UA-cam: www.youtube.com/@DustinLowmanMusic/videos Lyrics: I let my plants die, when I was feeling low I thought that sun...
Dustin Lowman | "A Little Green Left" | Live @ Park City Music Hall, 11/14/2023
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“A Little Green Left” | Live at Park City Music Hall, 11/14/2023 I let my plants die, when I was feeling low I thought that sunshine alone would make them grow But when it came time to replace one of them I found a little green left upon its stem I made my friend cry, because I couldn’t feel Her heart within mine, the spirit in the steel But when it came time to find another friend I found a li...
I played all the parts to "Rocky Raccoon" (Beatles Cover)
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I played all the parts to "Rocky Raccoon" (Beatles Cover)
I played all the parts to "Here, There, And Everywhere" (Beatles cover)
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I played all the parts to "Here, There, And Everywhere" (Beatles cover)
Dustin Lowman | "Pretty Good" (John Prine Cover) | Live at the Jalopy Tavern
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Dustin Lowman | "Pretty Good" (John Prine Cover) | Live at the Jalopy Tavern
Dustin Lowman | "Can't Let Go" | Live at the Jalopy Tavern
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Dustin Lowman | "Can't Let Go" | Live at the Jalopy Tavern
Dustin Lowman | "Rather Be Right" | Live at the Jalopy Theater
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Dustin Lowman | "Rather Be Right" | Live at the Jalopy Theater
Dustin Lowman | "Good Morning" | Gems in the Rough 2023 Contest Entry
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Dustin Lowman | "Good Morning" | Gems in the Rough 2023 Contest Entry
Dustin Lowman | "Searching For My Twin" | Live at the Family Wash
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Dustin Lowman | "Searching For My Twin" | Live at the Family Wash
Dustin Lowman | "Better Off Instead (2014)" | Live at the Family Wash
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Dustin Lowman | "Better Off Instead (2014)" | Live at the Family Wash
Dustin Lowman | "Away, Like Water" | Live at the Family Wash
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Dustin Lowman | "Away, Like Water" | Live at the Family Wash
Dustin Lowman | "I Will Try" | 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission
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Dustin Lowman | "I Will Try" | 2016 NPR Tiny Desk Contest Submission
This is a fair enough list, though John Wesley Harding should be on the A tier imo.
What is the closing music on your video
“Shine Your Little Light” by Tiny Vandals. Credit to the UA-cam Free Music Library
been listening to these albums more years than i will say. I disagreed with almost everything you said, but really enjoyed the video.
Good-natured disagreement: proof that there is hope for democracy (at least among Dylan fans)
This is a very fair list. I was mad at some placement until I realized how important it is to acknowledge that just because some albums' highs are higher than others (especially the singles) doesn't mean that their batting averages are going to be higher.
Yeah that's very well-put. I'm also finding that tier listing is more valuable as a way of clarifying one's taste than making absolute, objective judgments. In my case, I tend to favor poetic lyrics over discursive ones, and original songs over covers.
I like the analysis style. Looking forward to rankings of future decades! Here’s how I would rank his 60s work: S - Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home A - John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Freewheelin’ B - C - Another Side, Bob Dylan, Times They Are A Changin’
I appreciate it!
Prior to watching. (We're on the same page): My very favorite Dylan album is none other Than: 'Highway 61 Revisited'... (Not that this should be a surprising favorite Dylan album to anyone, though.... So, no marks for originality!!) SS-tier
Sometimes the best is the best for a reason!
would say Tweez to Spiderland is the greatest quantum leap. With Bob Dylan to Freewheelin you have someone go from being fine to great. With Tweez to Spiderland you have a band go from teenagers with hiss and fuzz to the greatest band of their era.
Not familiar! I’ll check it out.
John Wesley Harding in the B tier is a little crazy for me. The lyricism and sound on that album are incredibly unique. It's arguably the first country and religious rock LP ever released. With Dylan even going as far as naming it, "the first Biblical rock album."
Hmmm.... Mostly it's just, all along the watchtower, that I particularly like off that LP... But to each their own!
You have a point. Many of the songs just feel very undercooked to me. Many more than on either of the other two A-tier albums.
Christmas in the heart is a 3x SS Tier
😂😂 Merry Christmas to you my friend
As someone who loves Nashville Skyline and would have it in S, I never understood why people love Lay Lady Lay so much. It’s a great song sure, but there’s a few others on the album I think are better. The album can’t really compare to some of Dylan’s all-timers but it’s my favorite. I just really fw that twangy country guitar
Yeah Lay Lady Lay never did it for me. No fun to sing either.
Bro you should write a song about biscuits. That would pop off!
Dang that’s smart
I respect putting another side in A tier
@@tjmichaelmathere It seems like a chronically underrated album, and is very special to me
Agreed, if any early Dylan album is "underrated" it's Another Side. Fantastic record, My Back Pages is one of my all time faves, and I really love the Byrds cover of it as well.
The 30th Anniversary Celebration version is my favorite!
Blood On The Tracks, best album of all time
@@diegopizarro7419 It’s certainly up there!
Couldn’t agree more. Greatest storytelling, heartfelt emotion and I think his voice on this downright beautiful.
gotta do the 70s next!
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Great video but Nashville Skyline is S tier, probably a top 5 all time for Dylan
A lot of people think so, I think George Harrison among them. You’re in good company!
Best is blonde on blonde, Achilles, five believers and sad eyed lady are like my three fav dylan songs ever
Let us celebrate the plurality of opinions his music permits!
More videos like this and artist breakdowns! You kill this format!
That means a lot, thank you! More on the way.
I absolutely love highway 61 revisited and his many songs but his other albums are not my cup of tea. And more than that I love prime Dylan himself. I am 18 and I am so happy to discover Dylan when I was 16. I am still finding out Dylan any advise for me?
Great question! If you love Highway 61, I’d say spend some time with Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde On Blonde, the other two great surrealist albums of that era. Then, check out Blood On The Tracks, and if you’re still having fun, visit Love And Theft for something wildly different.
I'm looking forward to the 70s video. My favourite Dylan era.
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Thanks for a great and entertaining video. I don't agree, but that's another story. Merry Christmas from Sweden!
These videos are as much about where you disagree as where you agree. Nothing written in stone, just opinions. Merry Christmas!
Great. Looking forward to the rest.
Cheers!
Swap Blonde with Freewheelin' and you're there. BoB is not only his most over rated record, but probably the most over rated in musical history. it does have some great songs, but around half of it is absolutely inessential. Side 3 is a bit crap, sad eyed lady goes nowhere, and is just dull. there's no need for it to be 11 minutes long. take out maybe 7 songs and you have a very good LP.
Your feeling is a little more extreme than mine but I agree that BoB often gets more credit than it deserves!
@@DustinLowmanMusic yeah, but from people who haven't actually listened to it. Ive been in a room of people who were asked what the best album ever made was, and they all argued for a bit before agreeing that it was Sgt Peppers. None of them could name more than 3 songs from it, but they didnt want to get it wrong. Thats the problem with readers/viewer polls. 99% of people dont get that theyre being asked thier opinion.
Pretty cringe
Cannot WAIT for the Blood on the Tracks take.
@@CharlesG_1 I think you’ll be pleased!
great video / list. only note: nashville skyline = easy A.
@@morrimoto Definitely an argument to be made there. Thanks for watching!
Tier lists don’t interest me much, especially if they ain’t mine. So I have a question about the Freewheelin sessions. The fingerstyle guitar pattern for Don’t Think Twice. It’s iconic, unorthodox and very difficult to play. Did Dylan play this or was a session player doing that? I’ve never heard Dylan play that pattern live. He tends to strum and/or flat-pick it. It’s sort of in that same urban music myth category as the You Really Got Me (Kinks) studio version and whether Dave Davies played the solo or session man Jim Page did it. I heard Dave Von Ronk may have done the Dylan recording.
@@GoneButNotGone It’s a good question, and I believe it’s Dylan, for a couple reasons. Dylan was a decent but not perfect fingerpicker, and this pattern has just enough prettiness and irregularity to sound like him. Also, it’s very well-coordinated with the vocal part, and as a singer/songwriter, I know that’s very hard to do when playing with an accompanist, even a very good one.
@ A well reasoned answer, which I share. I think it’s him playing precisely because it’s so unusual. Sometimes guitar players find a groove in a moment and just nail it, and sometimes they simply can’t replicate it again. Dylan was a much better guitarist than he’s often given credit for. He absorbed styles of the day like a sponge. Not sure if he has perfect pitch but the way he learned so quickly suggests he may have it. In one interview (maybe the Scorcese documentary), he talked about his ability to listen to a record once, maybe twice, then being able to play it from memory. I love that first album with the covers, because it’s the first one I really heard and it still has a raw energy and earnestness.
I think Bruce Langhorne played on this, either with or over but I may be wrong.
@@jackballard6205 No way to say now, but to me, the fingerpicking is reminiscent of playing I've heard on other Dylan solo recordings.
Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline are my favourites. The last one is so genuine, natural and poetic.
@@econ7288 Both very rewarding listens!
Dylan died in after blonde on blonde . Momentary rebirth in 74/75. But 61-66 is > the rest of his ongoing career.
@@rappersandrabbis I agree only to a point. His career became very uneven afterward, but there are still several peaks that rival his mid-60s output.
@@DustinLowmanMusic difference between Genius and Brilliant.
I usually see how close someone is with my own ranking, with the understanding that both are opinions and nothing more. This is perhaps the first time that someone has matched exactly the rankings I would have had. I'll need to change mine a bit ... I don't want anyone agreeing with me ... gives me the heebie-jeebies.
@@willchristopher1899 😂 😂 I’m glad we see things so similarly!
Bloke knows his stuff.❤
@@OrggsOrggs Cheers 😊
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the re recording of girl from the north country with Johnny cash on Nashville. I’d say that’s arguably the best song on that album
I actually did but edited it out. I feel that it has a certain charm but I take the original over it any day. Back in my bootleg collecting days I had a recording of that full session, and suffice to say, it was a cooler document than a good session.
lol this guy really doesn’t like the blues! Blonde on Blonde doesn’t HAVE to be your favorite but i wish you’d give better reasons for it not being higher. Your 3 filler examples are sonically some of my favorites off the whole thing! personally feels weeeeird to me to put it below BIABH, but i’m happy for more Dylan content nonetheless, keep it up
One thing I might experiment with next time is extending my assessments a bit. I kept them short this time but might have omitted some important ideas in doing so. On the whole with Blonde on Blonde, there’s a compositional looseness whose chaos is by turns rewarding and not - One Of Us Must Know is a prime example of the latter, where behind the exuberant studio take is a pretty basic song. A number of them fall into this category for me.
@ hopefully i didn’t come off saltier than i meant to, i appreciate any and all opinions from someone who knows their stuff. even tho i disagree with your expanded reasoning haha i think it makes for an interesting perspective. i think that simplicity adds to the “pop” leaning he seemed to be going for on many cuts of that album, but the build-up and payoffs are still very effective and moving to me. I was gonna say it happened to be another favorite of mine but i realized I could say that for most of the album lol
@@ShaunSteverson Yeah I appreciate all your takes! Blonde on Blonde is a very meaningful album to me, nuanced S-tier quibbles aside.
6:53 I’m curious, what do you consider to be the greatest song of all time? Excellent video, can’t wait for the next one!
An impossible question to be sure. But one worth investigating at great length in a future video. Thanks for watching!
As a person who’s listened to all 40 of Bob Dylan’s album I can safely say I’m a big Dylan fan, I’d say 20 of the 40 albums are 10/10 albums imo
Where we agree is that so many of Bob Dylan’s albums are rewarding listens. I’m a big Pete Townshend fan too by the way!
John Wesley Harding is my favorite Dylan album. Blood on the Tracks and Modern Times are also big ones for me.
Respect!
listened to them all thanks to you, Blonde on blonde is the best one
@@idanregev1617 Glad you checked them out! Blonde On Blonde is a fine choice for best one.
"Sad Eyed Lady..." is, I think, better than you think. Reaching? yes. In vain? yes. It is reaching for the unattainable. No one can know another as he seeks to know this Lady. Its cadence is courtly and patient yet almost funereal in its resignation. Should I wait? perhaps not. I'd be curious to know your take on "warehouse eyes". Has he seen too much? Is he unable to forget? Don't give up on this song. I listen to it 5 or 6 times a year because that's all the heartbreak I can stand.
This is a really well-made point! I'll concede that "Should I wait?" is an apt way to end the chorus. However, I don't love "Warehouse eyes" as an image - it reminds me of some of the lesser songs from this period, like "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (an outtake), where he's experimenting with surrealism but not quite hitting nerves with it.
Would you make a video of Dylan's best songs from this period, but the performances that eclipse the album versions like you mentioned? :)
That's a great idea. I'm going to get through the rest of his albums first, but his songs so often take shape live - great concept.
My ranking for the sixties and the top 5 below are also my top 5 Bob Dylan albums. For albums after the sixties, the ones I enjoy most are Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft, Oh Mercy, Desire, Time Out of Mind and Modern Times. 1. Blonde on Blonde just barely 2. Highway 61 Revisited These top two are super close to me. When I was younger Highway 61 was my favorite now I would give a slight edge to Blonde on Blonde but they have always been number 1 or 2 for all his albums. I like Blonde on Blonde a bit better because of the greater vulnerability and sophistication in the range of expression and arrangements and the sense of greater immediacy and intimacy in delivery. For songs you said you weren't impressed with, I like Pledging My Time, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands a lot, but would say Temporary Like Achilles is the weakest link, though I still kind of like it. I add Please Crawl out My Window to Blonde on Blonde and Positively 4th Street to Highway 61 since it makes for an even more engaging listening experiences and since they were recorded at the same time as these releases. 3. Bringing It All Back Home- this one has always been number 3 4. Another Side of Bob Dylan 5. The Basement Tapes 6. Really close between John Wesley Harding and Freewheelin' 7. The Times Are a Changin' 8. Nashville Skyline 8. The Debut
We’re pretty close!
I agree that Highway 61 is probably his best - it’s my favourite, at least - but I think TTTAAC, Blonde On Blonde and JWH deserve far more credit than you give them. The songwriting and performances on both are sublime. I also don’t understand why a classic album can’t be bleak; it’s a work of art and that’s the tone and there are very few Dylan albums that don’t mark a change of tone or direction from the last. If you want humour, you have Another Side (which is also my favourite of the first four, but it’s not ‘better’ than it’s predecessor).
I mean, listing is always somewhat of a fool’s errand, you’re inevitably going to compare apples to oranges. Really what this reflects is my taste: Bleakness resonates less with me than a comitragic mix.
The Times...has a lot of character driven narratives that make it feel more thematically consistent than the rather hit or miss predecessor. The follow up has yodelling on the opening track so it is flawed straight out if the gate. Of the three Times gets nod for me.
I like your take! I don’t feel as strongly anti-yodel as you do though 😂
this guy is clearly a bob dylan fan
Shhh don’t tell anyone
What a fantastic video have a great weekend also happy holiday season from Canada ❤😊🇺🇸🇨🇦🎸🌲🎄🤢 also I have a stomach flu
Sooner or later, one of us must know…
Yeah, this is another one that I’m not super fond of on that album. The lyric is sort of scant, and I think most of the reason why people dig it is that (amazing, admittedly) snare part in the chorus.
Seriously underrating John Wesley. Look a little deeper into the lyrics
Yeah, that’s the thing, I don’t think there’s as much to look into as the minimalism and stray Biblical allusions sort of tacitly imply.
Temporary like Achilles IS an essential song
Why are you so hard???
Do 70s right now and I mean video within the next 30 minutes or else.
Or your money back
Here from tiktok! Was in from a small clip. Let’s see what ya list has got.
Thoughts??
@@DustinLowmanMusicsolid!!! Loved all the insight and reasoning for each. Pls do his 70s stuff next