Bob Dylan does Bob Weir’s “Only a River” on 4/20/23 in Japan

Bob Dylan does Bob Weir’s “Only a River” on 4/20/23 in Japan

by | Apr 22, 2023 | Dead Covers, Video

Bob Dylan – Only A River (Live) April 20, 2023 – Nagoya, Japan (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater)

Only a River is a song recorded by Bob Weir off of his album Blue Mountain – it was written by Josh Ritter

“I am speechless”, Josh Ritter (@joshritter) retweeted when he got the note that Bob Dylan sang ‘Only A River’ in Nagoya, Japan on April 20, 2023. And he added “I wrote that song in the stairwell of my dorm in college, 25 years ago. Music is a blessed traveler.” Next day he tweeted “When I learned yesterday that Mr. Dylan had sung a song that I’d written, I was washed over with a feeling that that can only be described as a cousin of vertigo. So many songs, and all of them rambling around out there. Somehow, this one found Dylan’s pasture. How beautiful. I wrote Only a River in my dorm in college. Like all my favorites, it came unbidden, and I just wrote it down. Many years later, as I got the amazing opportunity to work with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, this song rose to the top of the pack, asking to be let out the door. I sent it to Weir and Josh Kaufman, who beautifully arranged and recorded and performed the song that Dylan eventually must have heard”.
Bob Weir | Only a River | Etown performance with Steve Kimock
Album cut of Only a River – Bob Weir, Blue Mountain 2016
Dylan 101 with Pat Nevins, a DHLTV Patron Fundraiser

Dylan 101 with Pat Nevins, a DHLTV Patron Fundraiser

by | Mar 21, 2021 | Grateful Dead

Hello! We are seeking 101 New Patrons today – 1 per song as part of this Dylan 101 Show!
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During set 1 Pat played 47/101 Dylan songs | Deadheadland got 3 of 101 new patron goal. Let’s get caught up on set 2!

Set 1 (in two parts):

Set 1 was amazing!!!
1. Things Have Changed 2. She Belongs to Me 3. Tangled Up in Blue 4. Dirge 5. Visions of Johanna 6. You’re a Big Girl Now 7. Queen Jane Approximately 8. Just Like a Woman 9. The Ugliest Girl in the World (Dylan/Hunter) 10. Million Miles 11. Wallflower 12. Tough Mama 13. You Angel, You 14. Shake Shake Mama 15. Make You Feel My Love 16. Hurricane 17. If You See Her, Say Hello 18. If Not For You 19. Country Pie 20. In the Summertime 21. Tomorrow is a Long Time 22. From a Buick 6 23. I’ll Remember You 24. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 25. Positively 4th Street 26. Forever Young 27. New Pony 28. Emotionally Yours 29. Wagon Wheel (Dylan/Jay Secor) 30. Senor(Tales of Yankee Power) 31. Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright 32. Lay Lady Lay 33. I Threw it all Away 34. Most Likely You Go Your Way(and I’ll go mine) 35. Angelina 36. One Too Many Mornings 37. Abandoned Love 38. Obviously Five Believers 39. Not Dark Yet 40. Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others) 41. The Man in Me 42. Slow Train Comin’ 43. Nobody ‘Cept You 44. Sara 45. Under the Red Sky 46. Gates of Eden 47. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight

Set 2

Set 2.1

<Second Set>> 48. Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ 49. To Ramona 50. Romance in Durango 51. Had a Dream About You, Baby 52. Forgetful Heart 53. I Shall be Released 54. Lonesome Day Blues 55. Silvio 56. Peggy May 57. Tell Me That It Isn’t True 58. To Be Alone With You 59. Idiot Wind 60. True Love Tends to Forget 61. Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight 62. Highway 61 Revisited 63. Brownsville Girl 64. Highlands 65. Girl From the North Country 66. One More Cup of Coffee(Valley Below) 67. Congratulations 68. Alberta #3 69. Need a Woman 70. Lenny Bruce 71. Tryin’ to Get to Heaven 72. One More Night 73. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You 74. Where are You Tonight? (Journey through Dark Heat) 75. Simple Twist of Fate 76. Man in the Long Black Coat 77. Where Teardrops Fall 78. Foot of Pride 79. Mr. Tambourine Man 80. Boots of Spanish Leather 81. Series of Dreams 82. What Was it You Wanted? 83. Went to See the Gypsy 84. Crash on the Levee 85. Can’t Wait 86. Blowin’ in the Wind 87. The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar 88. Dignity 89. Rita May 90. Cry Awhile 91. Buckets of Rain 92. Like a Rolling Stone 93. Born in Time 94. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue 95. Thunder on the Mountain 96. Wiggle Wiggle 97. Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody 98. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 99. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door 100. Hazel 101. Murder Most Foul

Thanks to Richard Beres for keeping this setlist!!!!

RARE AUDIO: Bob Dylan & Jerry Garcia – “Let’s Keep It Between Us” Warfield, San Francisco,  November 16th 1980 

by | Apr 17, 2017 | Jerry Garcia

Bob Dylan & Jerry Garcia
– “Let’s Keep It Between Us”
Warfield, San Francisco,  
November 16th 1980 

Serve Somebody 0:00
I Believe In You 5:10
Like A Rolling Stone 9:50
Man Gave Names To All The Animals 15:39
Ramona*  21:19
Can We Keep It Between Us*  26:38
Convenant Woman*  31:03
Senor*  37:30
Simple Twist Of Fate* 41:54
The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar*  46:40

* Jerry Garcia on Lead Guitar

BACK IN THE DAZE DEPT: Bob Dylan plays guitar with the Grateful Dead, LA Forum, February 12 1989

BACK IN THE DAZE DEPT: Bob Dylan plays guitar with the Grateful Dead, LA Forum, February 12 1989

by | Feb 12, 2017 | Grateful Dead

Bob Dylan w the Grateful Dead at the Los Angeles Forum 2-12-1989, photo ???? by Ebb Eskew

Bob Dylan w the Grateful Dead at the Los Angeles Forum 2-12-1989, photo ???? by Ebb Eskew

Photo ???? by Ebb Eskew (and thanks Ebb for reminding me this show was today!)

Grateful Dead Live at Great Western LA Forum on 1989-02-12

The thing was, Bob Dylan* just sat in with the Grateful Dead on this particular February night in Los Angeles, and he just played guitar, and hung out. Except for during “Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again“, which Bob Weir sang, and at one point in the Dylan penned song he asked Dylan to “…jump right in” ~ And he does, after a short hesitation, finishing the verse.

Now the rainman gave me two cures
Then he said, “Jump right in”
The one was Texas medicine
The other was just railroad gin
An’ like a fool I mixed them
An’ it strangled up my mind
An’ now people just get uglier
An’ I have no sense of time
Oh, Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Mobile
With the Memphis blues again

He also got the Grateful Dead to play the rare “Monkey and the Engineer” for the first time in 17 years, and what is possibly the only full electric version:

This was one of my favorite Grateful Dead shows in my personal “early period”, though seasoned heads at the time had mixed views about it. Of special note, they had Spencer Davis** sit in during the first set, for “How Long Blues” and “Gimme Some Lovin’“. So glad I made it! A very rare and different night of Grateful Dead!

Cold Rain & Snow
Hell In A Bucket
Row Jimmy
Beat It On Down The Line
Promised Land
West L.A. Fadeaway
How Long Blues**
Gimme Some Lovin’**

Iko Iko*
Monkey & The Engineer*
Alabama Getaway*
Dire Wolf*
Cassidy*
Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 
Drums->
The Other One->
Stella Blue->
Foolish Heart

E: Not Fade Away*,
E: Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door*

Full show video ????