OMG! HE’S EXCEPTIONAL! FIRST TIME HEARING- Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell

OMG! HE’S EXCEPTIONAL! FIRST TIME HEARING- Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell | REACTION

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Sarah Dengler

Күн бұрын

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@peter9910 7 ай бұрын

One of Bob's greatest, and Mark Knopfler on that 12-string Ovation is just perfect 👌

@godot-whatyouvebeenwaitingfor 7 ай бұрын

Bob paints pictures in your mind...

@electraruby 16 күн бұрын

For this alone he deserves his Nobel prize.

@matthewbecker964 7 ай бұрын

Dylan sings with so much conviction and emotion on this song he is almost crying. He feels it to his soul. He knows he will never sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell.

@micheleulysse 7 ай бұрын

but then he does... just right here... the only white man allowed to sing the blues...

@reggy_h 7 ай бұрын

It's a great song that I don't think anyone else could do. Been a fan for 60 years. A genius. The song that you were thinking about where someone was wrongly jailed is probably "Percy's Song". Many if not all of his songs are about real events and people. Listen to "the lonesome death of Hattie Caroll" . I was surprised that it was a true story that happened in the late 1950s. Love your presentations. Thank you.

@peterginger 7 ай бұрын

She was probably thinking of “Hurricane “

@reggy_h 7 ай бұрын

@@peterginger You are correct.

@meninagreen5704 13 күн бұрын

@@reggy_h Hurricane on Desire album.

@cheriwarren4524 7 ай бұрын

Love some Bob Dylan! Great music of its really timeless. So many greats out there.

@geoffyoung9564 Ай бұрын

I've been a fan of Bob Dylan for more than 50 years, but I've never heard this beautiful song before. Great reactions, Sarah.

@JohnLedger-g4i 7 ай бұрын

Sarah. The imaginary in your head was planted by Dylan’s lyrics. That is is the reason he won a Nobel prize for literature.

@alanbrown8527 7 ай бұрын

Glad to see you are feeling the power of Dylan’s lyrics and musical performance. Although he has his share of fun rockers, he is definitely for the more discerning listeners who like a little substance along with their entertainment. Welcome to the club.

@fabriziobariggi3891 5 ай бұрын

This is a masterpiece

@batman_jones 7 ай бұрын

Just popping my head in to say I really love your Dylan reactions. So many Dylan reactions out there treat his songs like they're riddles to be solved. They listen with their heads; they "think" his songs. You listen with your heart, so you feel them. That's what Dylan hoped people would do with his songs. He said that "The only important thing about a song is how it makes you feel." (Philosophy of the Modern Song). He said it so many ways, but he also said it in the most central line in one of his most signature songs: "How does it feel?" Thank you for continuing to react to his songs, thank you for continuing to do it with feeling. Of course it's pretty difficult not to respond to this song emotionally, in so many ways, but thank you for sharing yourself that way..

@ljunod 5 ай бұрын

@@batman_jones and she does it so well.

@chopa2less 7 ай бұрын

Blind Willie McTell was a Piedmont (region and style) blues singer in the early to mid 1900s.

@gilevin100 7 ай бұрын

As a Dylan lover ...excellent reaction!

@hlawrencepowell 6 ай бұрын

Very great reaction. You understood it. You saw it and felt it.

@meninagreen5704 13 күн бұрын

Sarah. Your reaction almost as good as listening to Bobby! Good reaction, so heartfelt, just as it should be. Chilling song Bob left off his Infidels album.

@jlb6 7 ай бұрын

Time the Revelator is a terrific Blind Willie McTell song. Spiritual and gritty and a simpler time

@garylee3685 7 ай бұрын

What's amazing about this song is Dylan chose not to include it on the album Infidels at the time. It was on a compilation album. Blind Willie McTell was a blues singer in the 20's to 50's

@elston3153 7 ай бұрын

His delivery and phrasing and imagery is insane,

@danielalexandermclachlanga3781 7 ай бұрын

brilliant review / response Yer sincerity is beautiful

@soltemple389 7 ай бұрын

Never heard this one before but every other song Dylan wrote is mind blowing, such as Maggie's Farm, Positively 4th Street, The Times They Are 'A Changing and countless others.

@stangovers7441 7 ай бұрын

Would love for you, Sarah, to respond to some of Dylan's beautiful love songs. Check out Girl From the North Country, Visions of Johanna, Just Like a Woman, Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather.

@Peter-oh3hc 7 ай бұрын

One of my favorites is "most of the time". Not a hit, but a great song

@soltemple389 7 ай бұрын

@@Peter-oh3hc I'll have to check that song out.

@Schabuwan 7 ай бұрын

@@Peter-oh3hc Yeah, together with "What Was It You Wanted"

@jamesmoffatt6430 7 ай бұрын

As a Dylan fanatic, I must say that this is one of his greatest compositions, and a wonderful performance. Mark Knopfler on guitar, Bob on piano. (On the original version, you could hear Bob's dog barking.) Sarah grasps the essence of the lyrics: it's an historical/metaphysical journey. But the music is wonderful. I played this piece on guitar every day for about three or four years straight, and I never get tired of playing it. If know of no better summary of the distance between the American ideal and reality than: "Well God is in His Heaven/ And we all want what's his/ But power and greed, and corruptible seed seems to be all that there is." Forty years later, I'm still annoyed that Bob left this off his "Infidels" album. He could have left the remarkable "Jokerman" as the album's opening cut, and concluded with "Blind Willie McTell." If you have not heard Willie McTell, check him out. Truly one of the great blues vocalists of all time.

@Schabuwan 7 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you, but Dylan's dog barks on "Every Grain Of Sand"

@jamesmoffatt6430 3 ай бұрын

@@Schabuwan My bad, you're right.

@michaelwelsh7362 7 ай бұрын

Musical history, not many do it like Bob Dylan but just that short part you sang sounds beautiful as well🎶🎶🎶

@gotanproject4g174 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to this song - have listened to many Bob Dylan songs, but not this one. He is a Legend

@Timur_aka_Tamerlane 7 ай бұрын

This song is more about about the horrors of slavery in the United States than Blind Willie Mctell. The imagery that Bob puts into his songs is always amazing, just a masterful songwriter

@DavidStewart-v5e Ай бұрын

wonderful reaction

@dixiefallas7799 4 ай бұрын

Glad you found Mr Dylan. Great 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@waynejohanson1083 7 ай бұрын

Blind WIllie McTell is a old blues singer.

@peterburlin8198 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful reaction love!

@franchk8372 6 ай бұрын

Love your work. Beautiful song. 💞

@anderssundgren7199 27 күн бұрын

A great song

@admiralbillom7559 7 ай бұрын

great choice - one of his best and there are many great versions - one with mick taylor stands out for me.

@chopa2less 7 ай бұрын

The Band does a good cover of this song.

@gablen23 7 ай бұрын

I haven't heard it yet, thx, gonna listen to it.

@stuartsteinman2169 10 күн бұрын

There are certain aspects of the Dylan/knopfler collaboration that I prefer. The rhythmic ramping up and so forth. I hadn't heard this version before. It's amazing! I agree. Who says he can't sing?

@FrankD33577 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. This is one of Bob Dylan's lessor known classics. Great reaction. I am posting the lyrics below since the AI generated lyrics are incorrect. Take care, Sarah. ☮🕊 Blind Willie McTell Seen the arrow on the doorpost Saying, “This land is condemned All the way from New Orleans To new Jerusalem” I traveled through East Texas Where many martyrs fell And I can tell you one thing Nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, I heard that hoot owl singing As they were taking down the tents The stars above the barren trees Were his only audience Them charcoal gypsy maidens Can strut their feathers well And I can tell you one thing Nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell There’s a woman by the river With some fine young handsome man He’s dressed up like a squire Bootlegged whiskey in his hand Some of them died in the battle Some of them survived as well And I can tell you one thing Nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Well, God is in His heaven And we all want what’s His But power and greed and corruptible seed Seem to be all that there is I’m gazing out the window Of the St. James Hotel And I can tell you one thing Nobody can sing the blues Like Blind Willie McTell Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music

@zaccariaroj7604 3 ай бұрын

Only Joyfull tears! ❤ Dylan Is God

@maggiebryan2355 7 ай бұрын

Love❤

@mejbarron 7 ай бұрын

Bob is playing piano.

@Timur_aka_Tamerlane 7 ай бұрын

Bob is really underrated on piano, I always love the feeling he brings

@dougca7086 7 ай бұрын

React to murder most foul released in 2020 at age 79 his first number one hit! You'll be listening intensly, mesmerized! 😇😈

@balthazartrumpi6808 7 ай бұрын

Please react to these two great Dylan songs (studio versions): Desolation Row and North Country Blues.

@rayberry4261 7 ай бұрын

Perfection

@jurgenschmidt2759 5 ай бұрын

The Band's 1993 version of this song is equally as good

@nelsonx5326 Ай бұрын

Really cool song, so moody. Bob Dylan listened to and was influenced by a lot of old-timers he found on vinyl records.

@mangelwurzel 7 ай бұрын

The lyrics in the subtitles have a LOT of errors ... either somebody has a tin ear, or the AI needs tweaking.

@jamesmoffatt6430 7 ай бұрын

Yes, I burst out laughing when it messed up: "I'm gazing out the window of the St. James Hotel," which is a reference to the classic, "St. James Infirmary."