De facto Old Crow front man Ketch Secor, who takes lead vocals on the epics “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” and “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” wrote in the live album’s notes that it took two months of cramming to be able to “recite the whole ‘Blonde on Blonde’ album like the long-form, rambling, disembodied poem it is. Blonde on Blonde, released just 15 months after Bringing It All Back Home climaxed the amphetamine rush of Dylan´s mid-♆0s glory. The band interprets the album’s 14 songs with the hungry ambition of its street-busking background, playing “Obviously 5 Believers” at breakneck speed with furious fiddle runs and turning “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” into a lonesome folk ballad.Īlthough the group clearly had fun with the musical arrangements, memorizing Dylan’s protracted verses was admittedly a chore. Through the lens of Old Crow’s rowdy old-time aesthetic, Dylan’s vividly wordy, mood-swing masterpiece gets a potent injection of front-porch rawness. In late April, the band released a recording of the show as the new live effort “ 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde,” and the group is currently on tour, playing the entire album in cities across the country. In 1966, Bob Dylan released the iconic double LP “ Blonde on Blonde.” Fifty years later, Grammy-winning string band Old Crow Medicine Show honored the record’s anniversary by performing it in its entirety at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater in Nashville - the city where Dylan made the album. This month, the Australian, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Emma Swift releases her album of Bob Dylan cover songs, Blonde On The Tracks.In our conversation, Emma tells me about the story behind the album, how she came up with the song selection, the advantages of singing Dylan as a woman, and the autobiographical dimension of cover songs.You.
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