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beggars banquet is one of my favorites, ed...

here's another one, with a tip of the bandana to soz...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZmtqpc6wM&feature=related

Good morning, WA2K folks.

Loved both those Rollin' Stone songs, Kansas and Texas. Thanks, guys.

Well, I was dancing in the dark last evening. Tell em, boss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSGhuT_gCk

Thank God for Bob Dylan and his coffee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n4Gn-hjJMc&feature=related

Total power outage, so I guess I had better praise the power of candles and batteries as well.

Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.Sorry to hear that my PD had to spend Friday night in the dark.Here's two guys,sitting in the dark,who don't need electricity either....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ypeZ6R-t0
Al Dimeola and Paco de Lucia.

Bruce keeps the crowd going, for sure. Dylan of course is Dylan - The album version of this song is no longer on youtube.

Stayin' with the Spanish theme....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfF02EzxWk
Paco Pena - Mantilla De Feria

Fantastic video, barry.
Rock, Beggar's Banquet is, overall, my favorite Stones album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSnXE2791yg&feature=grec_index
Anyway, Good Morning

Welcome back, Brit. Love those Al and Paco Flamenco guitars. Right, buddy. With acoustic guitars, wires are a menace. Thanks, London.

edgar, thanks again for your comments, and that Facebook clip was hilarious. I had forgotten about those little "recorder" instruments. Used to have one.

Speaking of Spanish, folks. Here's another. Can you hear me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKwG5SM8sKk&feature=related

Enrique's talented, but I prefer Julio.
Oh, well. Here is Elvis, when he played Danny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPLonXjzChg

I prefer Julio as well, Texas, but had never heard Enrique, so I decided on him.

Never heard that one my Elvis, but I vaguely recall King Creole so here is one that inspired me, edgar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKZakKCLQl8&feature=related

and the lyrics.

Way down yonder in New Orleans
In the land of the dreamy scenes
It's a garden of Eden...you know what I mean

Creole babies with lovin' eyes
Softly whisper their tender sighs
Stop..ya bet your life you'll linger there...a little while
stop....won't you give your lady fair...a little smile

It’s the heaven right here on earth
All the beautiful queens
Way down yonder in New...Orleans

stop....won't you give your lady fair...a little smile
stop....give lady fair...a little smile
Oh!
It’s the heaven right here on earth
All the beautiful queens,
Look out!
Way down yonder in New Orleans


I understand that they're getting it back together again!

That's a good Way Down Yonder, letty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlRTMsR_Ig4
I heard this Marty song yesterday. Felt the need to listen again.

Thanks for the comment on New Orleans, edgar.

I love that one by Marty. So many vocalists have done it, but he is great. Thanks for the memory.

I know The Lettermen did this one, and although I don't know the artist, it's a beautiful version and matches Marty's souvenirs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmnmwSzLtA&feature=related

I like Traces - both versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Q5JRxNb8s&feature=related
Eddie Fisher counting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEtRUcKGwc
Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way?

Forty new paintings by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan go on show this weekend in Denmark, but museum-goers will hardly find “Blowin’ in the Wind” or references to other famous lyrics in the pictures.

The exhibition at the National Gallery in Copenhagen from September 4 to February 20, 2011 presents scenes of everyday life in Brazil, done in bold acrylic colors by the man whose 1960s songs helped define an era and who continues to record and tour.

“The Brazil Series” represents a new chapter in the painterly activities of the 69-year-old Dylan, who has painted and drawn for decades and exhibited his watercolors in Chemnitz, Germany, in 2007 and London in 2008.

“Artistic crossovers are not always successful — Bob Dylan’s is,” said museum director Karsten Ohrt. “This is another side of Bob Dylan, but still very much Bob Dylan.”

Calling him “a remarkable visual artist,” Ohrt dismissed as absurd the question of whether the museum would have shown the paintings if they had been done by someone other than Dylan.

But Curator Kasper Monrad told reporters at an advance viewing on Thursday there was no doubt that the exhibition came about “because it’s Bob Dylan.”

“He’s perhaps the greatest musician and songwriter of the 20th century who has embarked on a new project,” Monrad said.

“The paintings are not illustrations of the songs,” he said.

“We don’t see Shakespeare in the alley and so forth,” he said, alluding to the song “Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again” from Dylan’s 1966 Blonde on Blonde album.

In conversations with the gallery, Dylan said that if he could have expressed in song what he has now painted, he would have written a song instead, Monrad said.

The pictures were painted on canvass at Dylan’s studio over a period of 15 months from early 2009 to March this year, Monrad said. They are based on sketches done on paper earlier by the artist who has visited Brazil many times.

Ohrt said Dylan’s painting is evocative of the American Ashcan school and German expressionism, among others.

There are urban and rural scenes of Brazil and some of the pictures are like still cinematic shots. Others depict emotional dramas, such a quarrel between a father and son in a barber’s shop.

The reclusive Dylan would not attend the opening and has not disclosed any plans to come to Copenhagen, Monrad said.

But Ohrt said he was sure that Dylan would turn up some day to see the Copenhagen exhibition, perhaps “unannounced and on a Monday when we are closed.”

more waylon please...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ecE1UML1q8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhRqDvP-mwM&feature=related
One more Waylon

edgar, loved that one by Eddie. He has a fantastic voice. Well, I can promise you that I won't be counting sheep tonight. Having stayed awake waiting for all the lights to return, I did not get much sleep.

You and the mooseman are wailin' Waylon and love them all! "Are You Sure Hank Done it That Way was great as were I've Always Been Crazy and Don't Let Your Boys Grow up to be Cowboys. (Willie did that one as well)

Great minds, Texas. Just read about Bob and his art.

I like this one.



Had no idea that "the jester" painted.

Here are my two goodnight songs for the evening, y'all.

First, one to match Eddie's voice.

Andy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D-PmX8f5kI

Now George Strait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJf-p6RYvo

From Letty with love and lights.