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The Wind is the twelfth and final studio album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon.The album was released on August 26, 2003, by Artemis Records.Zevon began recording the album shortly after he was diagnosed with inoperable pleural mesothelioma (a cancer of the lining of the lung), and it was released just two weeks before his death on September 7, 2003.
The title track was frequently covered by Bob Dylan on his U.S. fall tour in 2002. [24] Zevon's cover of cult artist Judee Sill's "Jesus Was a Crossmaker" predated the wider rediscovery of her work a decade later. The album, however, had the worst sales of Zevon's career, in part because of lack of promotion from his label, Giant.
"Wallflower" is a song written and recorded in November 1971 by Bob Dylan. Dylan's own recording was not released until almost twenty years later as part of The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 . [ 1 ]
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer–songwriter, author, poet, and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for more than five decades. Many major recording artists have covered Dylan's material, some even increasing a song's popularity as is the case with the Byrds ' cover version of " Mr ...
The lyrics are based on Dylan's own experiences while living in New York City, in particular the story of a homeless man who would sit outside Dylan's window and play the same songs every day. One day, the man was gone, but his things were still there, until gradually people started taking them.
"I'll Keep It with Mine" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, [1] first released by folk singer Judy Collins as a single in 1965. Dylan attempted to record the song for his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde .
In an essay on Rough and Rowdy Ways in his book Outtakes on Bob Dylan, Michael Gray also named "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" as his favorite song on the album. He credits Dylan's vocal for the way it "holds so wide a range of feeling across the song" and the lyrics for "such sweet, acute, specific touches" as the way Dylan ...
Record World said that Dylan's "rollicking piano and nasal vocal are dazzling." [13] Writer Jeff Perkins describes "Heart of Mine" as a highlight of Shot of Love. [14]Critic Sean Egan calls the song "sweet and vulnerable", [15] but considers the live version on Biograph "immediately superior", due to the "suffocatingly bad production" on Shot of Love. [16]