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Stranger Songs
Tuesday January 21st, 2025 with Mike Regenstreif
Blood on the Tracks Revisited and A Complete Unknown

The themes on this edition of Stranger Songs are Blood on the Tracks Revisited and A Complete Unknown. Click on LISTEN NOW to hear this show. Click on LISTEN to hear the current CKCU broadcast.
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Blood on the Tracks Revisited

It was 50 years ago this week, on January 20, 1975, that Bob Dylan released Blood on the Tracks, one of his greatest albums. On this program, we revisit the songs from Blood on the Tracks, in order, played by various artists.
Tangled Up in Blue
Ben Sidran - Dylan Different - Bonsai
Simple Twist of Fate
Dave's True Story - Simple Twist of Fate: DTS Does Dylan - BePop
You're a Big Girl Now
Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks - Tiny Ghost/CRS
Idiot Wind
Lucinda Williams - Bob’s Back Pages: A Night of Bob Dylan Songs - Highway 20
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Barney Bentall & Valentino Trapani - Cosmic Dreamer - True North Canadian
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
Meet Me in the Morning
Sloan Wainwright - Rediscovery - Derby Disc Music
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Tom Russell, Eliza Gilkyson & Joe Ely - Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs - HighTone
If You See Her, Say Hello
Erik Balkey - If You See Her, Say Hello – single - Hudson Harding
Shelter from the Storm
Crowe’s Pasture - Edge of America - Crowe’s Pasture
Buckets of Rain
Dave Van Ronk - …and the tin pan bended, and the story ended… - Smithsonian Folkways
Bob Dylan recorded two other songs during the sessions for Blood on the Tracks that he left of the original album. Call Letter Blues and Up to Me were included, though, on More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14, a 2018 box set that included every take of every song Dylan recorded for Blood on the Tracks.
Call Letter Blues
Bob Dylan - More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 - Columbia/Legacy
Up to Me
Bob Dylan - More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 - Columbia/Legacy
A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown is a partly true, partly fictional account of Bob Dylan from his arrival in New York City in 1961 until his first electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

As a movie, I really enjoyed A Complete Unknown and thought the main cast members – Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as the Suze Rotolo character renamed Sylvie Russo, and the rest – were all very good.

Fo the most part, I didn’t mind the many historical inaccuracies I recognized in the film and thought A Complete Unknown did a good job of capturing the essence of Dylan’s rise in the first half of the 1960s.
Song to Woody (performed by Timothée Chalamet)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
Silver Dagger (performed by Monica Barbaro)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
Wimoweh (Mbube) (performed by Edward Norton)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
When the Ship Comes In ((performed by Timothée Chalamet & Edward Norton)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
It Ain't Me Babe ((performed by Monica Barbaro & Timothée Chalamet)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
Like a Rolling Stone (performed by Timothée Chalamet)
Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia New
fragment of The Stranger Song
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy Canadian
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