Bob Dylan / The Band – Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Posted: June 28, 2009 Filed under: Listening | Tags: Baby Let Me Follow You Down, Bob Dylan, classic rock, Robbie Robertson, The Band, The Last Waltz 1 Comment »Ah yes, The Last Waltz. Arguably the best rock movie of all time. I just heard this track on the 8500+ mega shuffle, and it’s tremendous.
One thing I’ve always heard, but never mentioned out loud is a certain uncertainty I hear in Robbie Robertson’s soloing, and not just on this track. This is the beauty of improvisation, but the listener is not always aware of the artist ‘in the moment’. I may have some criticisms of Robbie (like, where the hell has he been for the past twenty years?), but his guitar playing has an immediacy which is irresistible.
Nice one, man. The Last Waltz is one of those records that, inexplicably, I have lying around but have been too lazy to load up into my iTunes. Situation must be rectified. Plus, it’ll sound so nice on the new 32 gig iPhone that I salivate for.