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.
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy 
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| 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
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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| 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. For 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 
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| Silver Dagger (performed by Monica Barbaro) Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia
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| Wimoweh (Mbube) (performed by Edward Norton) Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia
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| When the Ship Comes In ((performed by Timothée Chalamet & Edward Norton) Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia
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| It Ain't Me Babe ((performed by Monica Barbaro & Timothée Chalamet) Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia
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| Like a Rolling Stone (performed by Timothée Chalamet) Various Artists - A Complete Unknown soundtrack - Columbia
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| fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy
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Gonna love this show, Mike. Just the other day, I was watching the live performance of Pancho and Lefty with Dylan and Willie and went down a Dylan "rabbit hole" for a couple of hours. The man does that to you. An endless journey of Dylan music out there as you travel through all the genres he has put his stamp on.
8:19 AM, January 21st, 2025