Yes.... This is a strong fact for so many artists but DYLAN its real CLEAR...... todays pop artists would be lost, There are songwriters still but they are hidden for good reason
One very mystical song listen to the story bobs telling if you dont feel this song your DEAD!!!! Im sorry but this is a great time to be on this earth with him!!!!
Seen the arrow on the doorpost Saying, “This land is condemned All the way from New Orleans To Jerusalem” I traveled through East Texas Where many martyrs fell And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, I heard that hoot owl singing As they were taking down the tents The stars above the barren trees Were his only audience Them charcoal gypsy maidens Can strut their feathers well But nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell See them big plantations burning Hear the cracking of the whips Smell that sweet magnolia blooming See the ghosts of slavery ships I can hear them tribes a-moaning Hear that undertaker’s bell Nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell There’s a woman by the river With some fine young handsome man He’s dressed up like a squire Bootlegged whiskey in his hand There’s a chain gang on the highway I can hear them rebels yell And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, God is in His heaven And we all want what’s his But power and greed and corruptible seed Seem to be all that there is I’m gazing out the window Of the St. James Hotel And I know no one can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell
Bianca Pickett whoever says that is not worth mentioning. I didn’t need to hear this version to know he’s amazing singer. No one can sing any Dylan song better than him. The ones say he’s not a good singer doesn’t understand anything in music.
The man is a musical and poetical genius! They don't give out Nobel Prizes like sweets! Bootleg version with only piano makes me cry, it's so beautiful! And I'm a 47 year old tone deaf heathen LOL 🤣
This version is just as good as the acoustic one featuring Mark Knopfler on guitar, for the slide guitar on this version is played by Mick Taylor, credit where it's due. It's such a gem, I cannot stop listening. The lyrics, the atmosphere, it's a timeless gem.
Any singer-songwriter worth his/her salt would have sacrificed his/her right arm to be able to write such a masterpiece!! Haunting, mesmerising and all that stuff.
@@BlindWillieJackson leave it to Dylan to choose his best songs ;-) I always thought this version was superior to the One released on the bootleg series
Don't tell me this isn't Mark Knopfler at 2:39. He plays this lick all the time. Requires finger-picking to get that initial triplet before the long note.
Probably his finest Outtake ever & One of his own top ten colletected. All the three takes circuilating are perfect themselves but at the same Time each One Is the Natural compendium for the others. Any single Singer/songwriter would kill for composing such masterpiece & Him discarted it All! Only another Pearl of an unmatched Carrer. That's makes the really far distance beetween His Bobness & the rest of the World! The Song itself Is a sort of brief American Great Novel. In less of six minutes describes, more best than an entire film or book, the U.S. South & human condition driven by the burden of the corruptible seed of greed. Each single Word strikes the target. His Voice & the sound are poignant & full of regret. Totally on Fire & kissed by an Amazing Grace. May the Lord protect him & the Ones he loves the most!. May His Art stay Forever Young.
Mac J K, cool. It’s still a bit of a mystery those sessions. I have ‘Rough Cuts,’ and still can’t discern when Mark contributes or doesn’t, despite his indelible guitar flourish.
@@jaredf921 well, that's weird as I know exactly which songs he played in. His guitar is unmistakable. But unlike the Slow Train Coming he wasn't the only guitarist working on this album. Mick Taylor also played and as Knopfler is not a session musician perhaps he didn't have time to play on all of the tracks. He wasn't present while mixing which as he later said was a shame as he didn't quite like the final mix of the album. He was one of the producers
Mac J Am aware he was co-producer of Infidels. Merely saying I wonder if ‘Union Sundown’ or ‘Man of Peace’ may have had a tinge of Mark, alongside Taylor, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and others. It was all magical.
@@larken558 Mark Knopfler you know the grand Guitarist (and Singer/Songwriter.. Sultans of Swing..Brothers in Arms)as guest player with Bob Dylan like so many times before. He was in the Band Dire Straits❣️🌺
@@0otee , Its Mick Taylor ( ex Rolling Stones ) playing slide guitar here .. Not Mark Knopfler . Mick Taylor also played guitar on Dylans 1984 tour . Mark Knopfler plays acoustic on the other version of Blind WM . This video is mis-labeled
It's really unfortunate that the definitive version from the original Bootleg Series album seems to be unavailable online. That performance absolutely stunned me. The version here, while good in some respects, falls very far short.
The reason why Dylan won a Nobel Prize. The bloke who said Dylan was the first successful singer who couldn't sing obviously never heard Florence Foster Jenkins (Great movie by the way)!
I heard about this rare version on a podcast. However, I believe the version that ended up on the Bootleg Series Vol. 1 is better. While Mick Taylor's electric guitar adds beauty, it seems to me that Dylan's vocal phrasing is off. As we know, Dylan likes to experiment and change how he phrases lines or emphasizes words, but on this take, it does not seem to work -- at least to my ears. By contrast, the singing, piano and acoustic guitar on the Bootleg Series version are so much more controlled and in synch, building to such an amazing crescendo. I wonder if in doing this electric guitar version Dylan just thought, "EFF-It, this is not working" and decided to leave the whole thing off Infidels -- even though that other version is a masterpiece.
I agree. The piano and acoustic guitar version has much more impactful vocals where the emotions and message of the lyrics are so much stronger and emotional. Here he seems to be singing a language he doesn't fully understand and the emotions of the poetry doesn't blend with the music nor have the build up that the other version has. And, yes, this may be why this version wasn't initially released and why Bob simply shelved it rather than rework it. All that said, I would also have loved for MK to extend the outro the way he does on many of his songs. Three or four minutes of the closing jam here as a final crescendo would have been amazing.
To me, both versions have great, great merit. But I DO prefer the Bootleg Series I version slightly above this version, with the one now issued on 7' (in 2021) the least take.
@@scottmclaughlin5221 you are indeed correct. I only heard this track for the first time tonight and I was amazed. After a little more searching online I realised my error, the version I heard was definitely Mark Knopfler. Please accept my apologies, now I must try to find a copy somewhere. Kind regards
Mick Taylor on slide. When you listen to Infidels with headphones (which I did a lot when I was 18) Mick Taylor plays on the left channel & Mark is on the right, throughout. Slide & finger picking.
Eu acho que esta letra fala um pouco sobre a escravidão dos nossos irmãos negros no início. O que vc acha??!! Se bem que, tentar traduzir Dylan é chover no molhado: não é?? Ele é bem enigmático.
Since i can't find it on YT, could you upload the studio outtake from 1983? :) Is this with Mark Knopfler or with Mick Taylor? ua-cam.com/video/sahaKRuEZfk/v-deo.html Can't tell the difference ;)
what's good when you're a real fan is that you have the right (in any case I allow myself to take it) to say when.you don't like something your idol did.. I don't like this take very much, because of the bootleg one of course.. not even possible to compare..
The stuff Dylan doesn't release would put most artists to shame
Yes.... This is a strong fact for so many artists but DYLAN its real CLEAR...... todays pop artists would be lost, There are songwriters still but they are hidden for good reason
@@raindeerprojekt4119 its a matter of taste.
One very mystical song listen to the story bobs telling if you dont feel this song your DEAD!!!! Im sorry but this is a great time to be on this earth with him!!!!
And you know, no one can sing the blues, like our old Zimmy will...a vastly underrated masterpiece.
Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, “This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem”
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
Well, I heard that hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
See the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
Hear that undertaker’s bell
Nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
There’s a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He’s dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
There’s a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
Well, God is in His heaven
And we all want what’s his
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I’m gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell
His greatest song
Thank you!
WoW - thanks for the Lyrics
Makes it even “more better” #1BobFan
What incredible lyrics.
Thanks for the lyrics!!
This is one of Dylan's finest songs, IMO, and not well known. A wonderful recording.
It's actually is most well-known song that didn't make it on an album.
Charlie Parr just did a version at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN (Jan 13, 2020). Was absolutely fantastic.
@@SimonRobeyns I believe "Positively Fourth Street" appeared first on a greatest hits album.
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This is my father's favorite Dylan song. He told me to take a listen and I'm sure glad I did 💕
unbelievably good. There is a slower piano only version, And they say Bob can't sing? No-one could sing this amazing song better
Bianca Pickett he really shows his power in his voice in his solo piano version wow .
Bianca Pickett whoever says that is not worth mentioning. I didn’t need to hear this version to know he’s amazing singer. No one can sing any Dylan song better than him. The ones say he’s not a good singer doesn’t understand anything in music.
The man is a musical and poetical genius! They don't give out Nobel Prizes like sweets! Bootleg version with only piano makes me cry, it's so beautiful! And I'm a 47 year old tone deaf heathen LOL 🤣
Maybe Blind Willie Mctell......
Mick Taylor. . . Please bitch 😂 not Mark Knopfler...
I believe the slide guitar is Mick Taylor not Mark Knopfler.....and Taylor released it on a solo album before Dylan decided to release it.
Nope. 2:39 That's clearly Mark Knopfler.
@@mklives2Sorry it's Mick. Listen to his version: ua-cam.com/video/kn7iVw-HkXU/v-deo.html
@@mklives2 You are wrong, best get informed; this is Mick Taylor playing.
Bob Dylan and MICK TAYLOR
This version is just as good as the acoustic one featuring Mark Knopfler on guitar, for the slide guitar on this version is played by Mick Taylor, credit where it's due. It's such a gem, I cannot stop listening. The lyrics, the atmosphere, it's a timeless gem.
Mick Taylor, actually. This is an error and is not Mark.
Its better imo . I Love this version
Who can write the lyrics like Bob Dylan? Nobody!
And this version wasnt released officially, its a crime !
I saw Dylan and Knopfler in concert together. Rare event. Truly memorable.
I did, too. It was wonderful (about 10-12 years ago).
Me too 👍🏼
@@davidt.5294 Same here, I think they toured together in 2011-12 or thereabouts. Brilliance was beheld by all.
Its Mick Taylor on slide Guitar .. not Knopfler
Wow... My favorite Dylan song for so many years and I never heard this great version.
Any singer-songwriter worth his/her salt would have sacrificed his/her right arm to be able to write such a masterpiece!! Haunting, mesmerising and all that stuff.
nobody mentions : it´s mick taylor. i love mark knopfler, but it´s not him. yes, it´s mick.
this isn't the bootleg version. I can't believe he shelved this song. DOH! This in top ten of greatest songs ever.
both version [acoustic and electric] were bootlegged but Bob only released the acoustic take on his bootleg series
Bob Dylan and Mick Taylor on guitar..
According to Knopler Bob left it off Infidels because it "didn't fit" with the other songs.
@@BlindWillieJackson leave it to Dylan to choose his best songs ;-) I always thought this version was superior to the One released on the bootleg series
@@openwheel1739 in my opinion, both versions are great. but the other version has a MUCH more impassioned vocal, which this masterpiece demands.
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Fucking boomers
So strange that there are some thumbs down! Blinder than Willie Mc Tell!
Its signature Mick Taylor slide laying in the background - just like his slide on Dont Fall Apart on Me tonight. Mark plays on the acoustic version.
Don't tell me this isn't Mark Knopfler at 2:39. He plays this lick all the time. Requires finger-picking to get that initial triplet before the long note.
@@mklives2 This is Mick Taylor, Knopfler plays on the acoustic version indeed.
One of my favorite Dylan songs. The Band did a great cover but Dylan gives me chills.
Mamma mia
A match made in heaven...that voice and that guitar...I'd recognize both anywhere.
I believe the slide guitar is Mick Taylor not Mark Knopfler.....and Taylor released it on a solo album before Dylan.
This is an amazing piece! Bob Dylan you are Greatest
Probably his finest Outtake ever & One of his own top ten colletected. All the three takes circuilating are perfect themselves but at the same Time each One Is the Natural compendium for the others.
Any single Singer/songwriter would kill for composing such masterpiece & Him discarted it All! Only another Pearl of an unmatched Carrer. That's makes the really far distance beetween His Bobness & the rest of the World!
The Song itself Is a sort of brief American Great Novel. In less of six minutes describes, more best than an entire film or book, the U.S. South & human condition driven by the burden of the corruptible seed of greed. Each single Word strikes the target. His Voice & the sound are poignant & full of regret.
Totally on Fire & kissed by an Amazing Grace.
May the Lord protect him & the Ones he loves the most!.
May His Art stay Forever Young.
Fucking good comment !!!
holy shit thanks for the upload 😍
Wow what a great recording of this! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
No Mark KNopfler here, only Mick Taylor on slide, Knopfler played the accoustic version of this tune
Are you certain of that?
@@jaredf921 yes, Mark played on the accoustic version of this song ( not included in the album)
Mac J K, cool. It’s still a bit of a mystery those sessions. I have ‘Rough Cuts,’ and still can’t discern when Mark contributes or doesn’t, despite his indelible guitar flourish.
@@jaredf921 well, that's weird as I know exactly which songs he played in. His guitar is unmistakable. But unlike the Slow Train Coming he wasn't the only guitarist working on this album. Mick Taylor also played and as Knopfler is not a session musician perhaps he didn't have time to play on all of the tracks. He wasn't present while mixing which as he later said was a shame as he didn't quite like the final mix of the album. He was one of the producers
Mac J Am aware he was co-producer of Infidels. Merely saying I wonder if ‘Union Sundown’ or ‘Man of Peace’ may have had a tinge of Mark, alongside Taylor, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and others. It was all magical.
Mick Taylor is playing slide here
Oh that harrrrrrrppppppp where would the world be without it! Grand!.. Hounting the Blues🌺 I smell the magnolia🌹🌺🌷🌻🌞
Thanks so much Mark and Dylan🌺❤️🌹
Its Mick .. not Mark
@@larken558 Mark Knopfler you know the grand Guitarist (and Singer/Songwriter.. Sultans of Swing..Brothers in Arms)as guest player with Bob Dylan like so many times before. He was in the Band Dire Straits❣️🌺
@@0otee , Its Mick Taylor ( ex Rolling Stones ) playing slide guitar here .. Not Mark Knopfler . Mick Taylor also played guitar on Dylans 1984 tour .
Mark Knopfler plays acoustic on the other version of Blind WM . This video is mis-labeled
That’s Mick Taylor
No one can sing the blues like Dylan, 2020
It's really unfortunate that the definitive version from the original Bootleg Series album seems to be unavailable online. That performance absolutely stunned me. The version here, while good in some respects, falls very far short.
where can I find it?
There is another version on Vimeo with an acoustic, but its kind of plain compared to this one
Its Mick Taylor on slide Guitar .. not Knopfler
love the laugh - seems to be erased on the official release
Its Mick Taylor on slide guitar.. not Knopfler .. geez !
Just heard this for the first time, played on the Paul Gambaccini show on Radio 2. Fabulous song 🧡
Em pleno 2020, ouvindo 499 vezes "Blind Willie Mctell!! Forever Bob Dylan!!!
Eu tbm kk
no one can write songs like bobby dyalan
It's Dylan. Let's give the man some credit.
no no no... is mick taylor on guitar not knopfler in this version....
win andromeda hahaha
Mick Taylor on slide
That outro could have gone on for ten minutes and I would have been absolutely fine with it
The reason why Dylan won a Nobel Prize. The bloke who said Dylan was the first successful singer who couldn't sing obviously never heard Florence Foster Jenkins (Great movie by the way)!
I heard about this rare version on a podcast. However, I believe the version that ended up on the Bootleg Series Vol. 1 is better. While Mick Taylor's electric guitar adds beauty, it seems to me that Dylan's vocal phrasing is off. As we know, Dylan likes to experiment and change how he phrases lines or emphasizes words, but on this take, it does not seem to work -- at least to my ears. By contrast, the singing, piano and acoustic guitar on the Bootleg Series version are so much more controlled and in synch, building to such an amazing crescendo. I wonder if in doing this electric guitar version Dylan just thought, "EFF-It, this is not working" and decided to leave the whole thing off Infidels -- even though that other version is a masterpiece.
I agree. The piano and acoustic guitar version has much more impactful vocals where the emotions and message of the lyrics are so much stronger and emotional. Here he seems to be singing a language he doesn't fully understand and the emotions of the poetry doesn't blend with the music nor have the build up that the other version has. And, yes, this may be why this version wasn't initially released and why Bob simply shelved it rather than rework it. All that said, I would also have loved for MK to extend the outro the way he does on many of his songs. Three or four minutes of the closing jam here as a final crescendo would have been amazing.
To me, both versions have great, great merit. But I DO prefer the Bootleg Series I version slightly above this version, with the one now issued on 7' (in 2021) the least take.
If I'm not mistaken,this was originally slated for the lp Infidels.
danny4481 and to think that he didnt put it on the record because he felt it was "incomplete"...
yeah, What a Song, a Masterpiece that stand along with his long record of time..
Greatness
Love that it’s Mick Taylor that most poetic of guitarists with him
Mick Taylor: The Master of Melodic Invention.
Believe its Mark Knopfler actually
@@cheneyrichard219 Anybody slightly familiar with Taylor knows that it is him. He even covered it on a solo album
@@scottmclaughlin5221 you are indeed correct. I only heard this track for the first time tonight and I was amazed. After a little more searching online I realised my error, the version I heard was definitely Mark Knopfler. Please accept my apologies, now I must try to find a copy somewhere. Kind regards
@@cheneyrichard219 , No, Knopfler can't play slide like that. Thats 100% Mick Taylor . He does done live in his band over the years.
Gawd. Get me another drink, make it a double.
mick Taylor slide guitar
Far superior to the piano version.
Looking forward to seeing Mr. Dylan for the 18th time this summer
An amazing version...
Thanks for having this.
Now how/why the fuck did they decide not to release a recording of this arrangement back then? Insanity
where Knopfler puts his mark he turns it to a masterpiece...this guy knew Music better than anyone else.
This is not Knopfler, he plays 12 string on the acoustic version. It's Mick Taylor.
For a guy who refers to himself as a Poet this Blues Jam is bomb
And finally it’s going to be released officially this year !
Mick Taylor on slide. When you listen to Infidels with headphones (which I did a lot when I was 18) Mick Taylor plays on the left channel & Mark is on the right, throughout. Slide & finger picking.
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Eu acho que esta letra fala um pouco sobre a escravidão dos nossos irmãos negros no início. O que vc acha??!!
Se bem que, tentar traduzir Dylan é chover no molhado: não é?? Ele é bem enigmático.
Thanks so much for sharing
Since i can't find it on YT, could you upload the studio outtake from 1983? :) Is this with Mark Knopfler or with Mick Taylor? ua-cam.com/video/sahaKRuEZfk/v-deo.html Can't tell the difference ;)
The best cover version I have ever heard is Roger Chapman's version of this song.
Shaun Kelly: thank you for your sugestion.
And thank you to UA-cam.
OMG thank you man for this information
Not by a long shot!!
Didn't hear Knopfler.
One of the Master's Best , Good ole MK as well
Its Mick Taylor on slide. Title is not correct.
Bobby's got the harmonica out...
MARAVILLOSO. MUCHAS GRACIAS, DE CORAZÓN. javizimmerman
Very beautiful..nice beat but i miss Mark's pics..❤
Great Stuff
Eu❤MK 💃💃💃💃💃🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷💃💃💃💃💃
There’s a better version they took it down
It’s a shame
Só fica a dúvida: Mick Taylor ou Mark Knopfler faz o solo... O que vc. me diz??
An absolute masterpiece.
A great song thanks
ETERNAL LOVE AND MUSIC = MARK KNOPFLER
Bob's mouth organ is in the wrong key(?)
what a great song. stunning vocal. the drums sound out of place. Bloody drummers!
I love The Band's version of this song
When Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan
It seems I pressed send on this too early and 4 weeks later I have no clue what the fuck I was saying. Oh well.
Its Mick Taylor on slide Guitar .. not Knopfler
Brill have never heard this either an amazing performance.
This is really good and to be honest I do prefer the cover version by The Band. Both are quite good
I say Amen to most of the Comments below!
Love this song!
thank you for sharing :)
Grandioser Song!
That's Mick Taylor on slide guitar
Patrick Jordan I asked Mark and he was the guitar player of that one only master piece! Taylor copied the rest...
Did Knofler actually say he was playing the slide.. what a liar , lol Its 100% Mick Taylor. Mick Taylor plays this version in his live shows.
Knopfler plays guitar on the acoustic version, not this one
@@JoeASolitaire , Its Mick Taylor.. not Knopfler.
@@JoeASolitaire , Knopfler is the guitar player on the acoustic version .. not this one.
what's good when you're a real fan is that you have the right (in any case I allow myself to take it) to say when.you don't like something your idol did.. I don't like this take very much, because of the bootleg one of course.. not even possible to compare..
How many songs can one get moved by every single time they hear it?
68000 views....posted 2013....
Thanks. Bob's version of Delia says it all.
Put there, Mick T. If, you please.
Knopfler or Taylor?
me encanta esta canción
Best
Espetacular!!!!🇧🇷🇧🇷
Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
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St Saint´s Infirmary. Same melody.
000000 000000 *Saint James
Well, duh!
Thanks you.
(What a union).
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄.
its true too