"Love Minus Zero/No Limit" - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan performs one of his most beautiful songs at the Concert for Bangladesh, backed by George Harrison on lead guitar, Ringo Starr on tambourine, and Leon Russell on bass. It appears that they are going to play "If not for You" and then Dylan says something to Harrison and changes songs. Very Dylanesque as it were.
I thought of this this morning when I heard cuts from the soon to be released Dylan Christmas album on NPR, which sounded a bit frightening. Dylan's voice is not for everyone (especially now) but I think in the period depicted and shortly thereafter, he sounded the best he ever would -- and to my ears at least, pretty wonderful.
[Happy birthday Lauren.]
