Bob Dylan - This Was My Love [ Infidels outtakes unused tracks]

 Someone posted this on the Facebook fan club page and thought it worth sharing here

I noted “

“This Was My Love"

Bob Dylan : Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (1980-1985) 

Written by Jim Harbert made a success for one Frank Sinatra

Released on Studio outtakes, Soundtracks, etc. 1978–

Recorded during The Infidels sessions (Apr-May 1983)

* Bob Dylan: Vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards.

* Mark Knopfler: Guitar (also producer).

* Mick Taylor: Guitar.

* Sly Dunbar: Drums, percussion. 

* Robbie Shakespeare: Bass guitar.

* Alan Clark: Keyboards.

Soft as a raindrop fresh as the sea

Warm as the sunshine shining on me

This was my love, this was my love

Light was her laughter few were her tears

Gentle her beauty tender her years

This was my love this was my love

So young so fair such soft golden hair

A smile always on her face

No other love can ever compare

No other can take her place

Others may cherish fortune or fame

I will forеver cherish her namе

This was my love, this was my love 

                                                             (Jim Harburt) 

R.I.P. Sly Dunbar (10 May 1952 – 26 January 2026

might sign off the day with this lovely version of a Sinatra classic

Bob Dylan at Home in Woodstock 1968 by the legendary Elliott Landy

Bob Dylan in his Byrdcliffe home with his children Jesse and adopted daughter Maria, 

Woodstock, NY, 1968

Photo By © Elliott Landy

“One afternoon, Bob sat down at the grand piano in his living room to work out some songs. I had never seen him play piano. His career took second place to his home life. People in those days looked up to him as a leader because of the profound wisdom in his songs. As far as I am concerned, there was great wisdom in the way he was living his life as well.” - Elliott Landy

Elliott Landy images here

Found also via the Fanclub Facebook page

China - Eliminate Sparrows Campaign!除四害 Great Chinese Famine (ca. 1959-61)

 Peasants chasing sparrows during China’s Four Pests Campaign (除四害), the “pests” comprising mosquitoes, flies, sparrows, and rats. People would chase the birds around and make noise to keep them from resting or roosting until the birds eventually dropped and were killed. This was but one of the methods that were used to exterminate hundreds of millions of birds by the time the campaign was called off.

In theory, all this would keep the birds from eating grain. In practice, the birds would’ve eaten the insects who did, in fact, destroy the grain and helped launch the Great Chinese Famine (ca. 1959-61). 

Anywhere from 15 to 55 million Chinese died as a result of the ecological impact of the Eliminate Sparrows Campaign (消灭麻雀运动), as well as of the policies of the Great Leap Forward, the disastrous planned economy, and pressures to meet production goals. 

Mao Zedong ( Mao Tse Tung) was a great military leader, at least in the 1940s, and an influential political theoretician, but he sucked at running China’s economy and, for that matter, China, not to put too fine a point on it. 

Name That Video? Name these stars!

 

Song of The Day! | Jakob Dylan - Ain’t No Fair (In A Rock ‘N’ Roll Love Affair) [Slim Dunlap cover]

 

Ain't No Fair (In A Rock 'N' Roll Love Affair)

jakob-dylan:

Ain’t No Fair (In A Rock ‘N’ Roll Love Affair) [Slim Dunlap cover] - Jakob Dylan

The James Hunter Six - “Ain’t That A Trip” feat. Van Morrison

 The James Hunter Six - “Ain’t That A Trip” [Official Music Video]

 feat. Van Morrison

From the album 'Off The Fence' available January 16, 2026: https://ees.ffm.to/tjhs_offthefence Stream "Ain't That A Trip" (feat. Van Morrison) everywhere now: https://ees.ffm.to/tjhs_aintthatatrip Directed by James Slater Follow The James Hunter Six:   / jameshuntersix     / thejameshuntersix   https://www.jameshuntermusic.com/

Blimey much as I have stopped posting the Clappers I thought it best to leave his fellow anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist Ivan to hisself but heck this is good!

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble in Your Mind | HERBERG DE KELDER

Trouble In Your Mind

It’s Friday everybody! Yeehaw! Don’t get Trouble in Your Mind

I always rather struggled with the band name Carolina Chocolate Drops but hey that’s almost funnier than the guys choosing the name . . . . poor ole whitey liberal being over sensivite! ha ha ha ha . . . . . .  

HERBERG DE KELDER

Levon Helm and Midnight Ramble - ‘Back To Memphis’ (2008) again . . . . .

In 2008, Levon Helm took his famous Midnight Ramble on the road. His stop at the world-famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, saw him perform "Back To Memphis" and many of his other hits.

This, along with other songs, was released in 2011 on the Ramble at the Ryman album, which won a Grammy in 2012.

I think I posted this before and you know what?

I DON’T CARE!

 I’m just a walking down Beale Street wearing my pyjamas

This . . . . . .

 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN- STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS

Through the winter’s ice and cold

Down Nicollet Avenue

A city aflame fought fire and ice

‘Neath an occupier’s boots

King Trump’s private army from the DHS

Guns belted to their coats

Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law

Or so their story goes

Against smoke and rubber bullets

By the dawn’s early light

Citizens stood for justice

Their voices ringing through the night

And there were bloody footprints

Where mercy should have stood

And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets

Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice

Singing through the bloody mist

We’ll take our stand for this land

And the stranger in our midst

Here in our home they killed and roamed

In the winter of ’26

We’ll remember the names of those who died

On the streets of Minneapolis

Trump’s federal thugs beat up on

His face and his chest

Then we heard the gunshots

And Alex Pretti lay in the snow, dead

Their claim was self defense, sir

Just don’t believe your eyes

It’s our blood and bones

And these whistles and phones

Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice

Crying through the bloody mist

We’ll remember the names of those who died

On the streets of Minneapolis

Now they say they’re here to uphold the law

But they trample on our rights

If your skin is black or brown my friend

You can be questioned or deported on sight

In chants of ICE out now

Our city’s heart and soul persists

Through broken glass and bloody tears

On the streets of Minneapolis

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice

Singing through the bloody mist

Here in our home they killed and roamed

In the winter of ’26

We’ll take our stand for this land

And the stranger in our midst

We’ll remember the names of those who died

On the streets of Minneapolis

We’ll remember the names of those who died

On the streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen 

Fairport Convention - Autopsy - 'What We Did Instead of Holidays’ Clinton Heylin

 An advert on Route for the wonderful book 'What We Did Instead of Holidays' has just been released in a new paperback edition and they used this track to illustrate it.

"Conscious that shipping and customs costs are a barrier, we have issued the paperback in a way to avoid such problems and thus make it more accesible to international readers. "

All links here: https://www.route-online.com/.../what-we-did-instead-of...

Fairport Convention - Autopsy (Unhalfbricking)

Produced by Joe Boyd. 

Sandy Denny - lead vocals.

Richard Thompson – electric guitars, electric dulcimer.

Simon Nicol – guitar.

Ashley Hutchings – bass, backing vocals.

Martin Lamble – drums.

Go buy it! it is seriously one of the best books Route have publilshed and certainly the best book (other than Richard Thompson’s own!) on the Fairports