May 2011 sees the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan. To celebrate, we're taking you on a journey through the lesser celebrated avenues of his back catalogue. A journey down Highway 61 that won't stop off at 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'All Along The Watchtower' or 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' but will call by...Nobody ‘Cept You (1974)
A simply gorgeous devotional love song, another buried treasure that had to wait for ‘The Bootleg Series’ before it could surface, this time recorded around the time of ‘Planet Waves’. Again that old Dylan argument crops up, how could he leave something this good off? Well whilst nobody can rationally explain the abundance of classic songs left off of ‘Infidels’, ‘Planet Waves’ works pretty effectively as a sequence of songs and even the weaker tracks on the album serve their purpose surrounding heavy duty fare like ‘Dirge’ and ‘Wedding Song’. Vinyl albums used to struggle to fit much more than 50 minutes of music across both sides so time constraints may have been a factor. The original recording is a fine take with The Band’s backing lending the song a haunted edge, a must hear. There aren’t too many cover versions either but here’s a faithful rendition by a singer called Connor O’Brien.
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