![]() Then we all heard he was sick, the Dave show on late night tv, sobering. He and his band, did solo stuff, band stuff, rocked and kicked ass, he was so sweet at moments it was stunning. I saw Warren on South Street in Philadelphia playing at a venue. Great respect and wonder for what Bobby has given and continues to give to the universe. At 82 my voice has lost some of its youthful spring but my goal was not to compete with younger singers but to infuse the complex lyrics with a passion and energy derived from many years as a traveling troubadour combined with love, I know he gave it to Joan and told her to see what she could do with it and a short time later she surprised him with her version, which is a classic. It’s a video of one of his most enigmatic songs of his early writing years. I’m now and 82 year old troubadour who would like to add my tribute to Bob on his 75th. It was brief and though my last name was spelled with a “y” instead an “i” it was nice to be remembered. In the New York Times, July 31, 1961, he wrote: ” Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling country-steeped manner John Winn, a polished, poised tenor whose art-song approach to balladry was impressive Tom Paxton, a western singer with an obvious potential for songwriting.” Bobby was also kind enough to give me a mention in Chronicles. Robert Shelton mentioned three newcomers to the scene in his review of a concert at Riverside church, NYC. Bobby and I were friends back in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Warren doesn’t just sing Bobby’s songs, he gets inside them and imparts passions of his own. Bob Dylan: Peace In The Valley (Thomas A.Bob Dylan: House of Gold (Hank Williams) Audio & Video.Bob Dylan – Across The Borderline (Cooder/Hiatt/Dickinson) – Audio & Video.Bob Dylan – Old Five And Dimers (Like Me) (Billy Joe Shaver) – audio & video.Should have done, should have done, we all sigh Unknown location, but beautiful performance: ~Andrew Muir (about the Seattle performance of Accidentally Like A Martyr – from “One More Night“) You could fail to understand immediately that this song was of import. The vocals conveyed an astonishing depth of feeling and insight and an immense gravity. “Accidentally Like A Martyr”, hit me like the proverbial large railway vehical moving at high speed. ~Derek Barker ( The Songs He didn’t write)ĭylan performed Accidentally Like a Martyr 22 times in 2002. Unprecedented homage to an extraordinary yet criminally under-appreciated talent. For Dylan to perform four covers as tributes to Zevon was an astonishing and Of the tour and a further Zevon song, ‘Lawyers, Guns And Money’, was also added to the ‘Accidentally Like a Martyr’and ‘Mutineer’ were both played frequently on the remainder Although this was the only performance of ‘Boom, Boom Mancini’, ![]() The concert ended, he paid a further tribute by performing a third Zevon song, the utterly Six songs later Dylan played another of Zevon’s songs, ‘Boom, Boom Mancini’, and before The song, ‘Accidentally Like a Martyr’, a Warren Zevon number, was a tribute to its writer. ![]() (October 4), Dylan surprised his audience by playing a song that left many people guessing. At the opening concert in Seattle, Washington Oct 1, 1982:Īlso Check out: Bob Dylan: Mutineer (Warren Zevon) Bob Dylan A few weeks after Warren Zevon announced that he was terminally ill with cancer, Dylanīegan his 2002 Fall tour in the USA. Here is a fantastic live version from Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ. ~Bob Dylan (to Huffington Post – May 2009) ‘Accidentally Like a Martyr’ was released on Warren Zevon’s brilliant 1978 album “Excitable Boy”īF: Who are some of your favorite songwriters?īob Dylan: Buffett I guess. The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
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