Ramona, come closer
Shut softly your watery eyes ...
#BobaDay
Live in Ridgefield, Washington, USA
(24/5/2025 - his birthday)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3as...
Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Bob - still rolling!
I went to a garden party
To reminisce with my old friends ...
#BobaDay
Live, The Outlaw Music Festival, San Diego, 15 May 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvDG...
Song, of course, from the late, great #RickyNelson - maybe Bob regards him as one of his old friends
If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, it's the highway that's the best ...
#BobaDay
Phoenix, Arizona 13/5/25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vti...
Yesterday Bob found himself on the route already well trodden by Nat Cole, the Stones and a few more
🧋National Boba Day🧋
#bobaday #boba #bubbletea
Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere ...
#BobaDay
Live, Tulsa 25 March 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=heLN...
... and, oh, to be back in the land of Coca-cola
... Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
#BobaDay
Live October 1998, Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWNa...
Really? Certainly sounds pretty spritely for all those years
Gather 'round me people
There's a story I would tell
'Bout a brave young Indian
You should remember well
#BobaDay (1975)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7f...
In which Bob finds a suitable occasion on which to tell the story of #IraHayes which was written by #PeterLaFarge but popularised by #JohnnyCash
Denise, Denise, gal what's on your mind ...
#BobaDay
Outtake from the #AnotherSide sessions (1964)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK3y...
Wherein Bob's sense of humour comes to the fore (over a familiar 12 bar blues format)
Well I ride a mailtrain baby
Can't buy no thrill ...
#BobaDay (1965)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjE...
Excellent outtake (which starts at approx 0:40 in)
Perhaps it's the colour of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at ...
#BobaDay
Outtake 1964
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmkN...
Contained in #TheBootlegSeriesVolumes1-3RareAndUnreleased
"I Can't Seem To Say Goodbye"
#BobaDay
Live Nottingham, 28th October 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGVh...
Jerry Lee Lewis died that day.
Before Bob's closer that evening on the #RoughAndRowdyWaysTour, he stated that "Jerry Lee Will Live Forever" and launched into this highly obscure JLL number
I stood by
I stood by you ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADPW...
A song that was never recorded but was played several times during the 1984 Europe tour - it also seemed to have different titles
You must leave, now take what you need
You think will last ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Lw...
#RoyalAlbertHall earlier today
Hoppin' in your side, in your door
Pullin' in the bed, oh, I say, buddy, for ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=axbU...
Outtake from #ShotOfLove (1981)
... Betty Davis style
#BobaDay
Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, 9/11/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP6V...
Takes the audience more than a few seconds to recognise the song but yes it is #DesolationRow
They're selling postcards of the hanging ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYyi...
Three nights ago in Paris
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man ...
#BobaDay
Live Baltimore, Maryland 2000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOf...
... and a surprising version that you may well have not heard before
Denise, Denise
Gal, what’s on your mind?
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK3y...
Outtake from #AnotherSideOf (1964)
Come gather 'round, friends
And I'll tell you a tale ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pid0...
#NewportFolkFestival 1963
I've seen love go by my door
It's never been this close before ...
#BobaDay (live 1976)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7mE...
With visuals from #RenaldoandClara
I was born in East Virginny
North Carolina I did go ...
#BobaDay (live 1971)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6mE...
With #EarlScruggs family & friends
And I ride on a mail train, baby, can't buy no thrill ...
#BobaDay (1965)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjE...
Effectively starts at approx. 0:40 - differs considerably from the take selected
The air is getting hotter
There's a rumbling in the skies ...
#BobaDay
#TimeOutOfMind (1997)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVF...
A significant part of his #Comeback album
I was blinded by the devil,
Born already ruined ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIUN...
Live but frustratingly no further info. given - clearly from one of the Christian Tours (and it rocks like the clappers)
Prayed in the ghetto with my face in the cement
Heard the last moan of a boxer, seen the massacre of the innocent ...
#BobaDay
With #MikeBloomfield
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qpn...
San Francisco, November 1980
Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
#BobaDay
Cole Porter song first cut by #RoyRogers in '44 followed by #BingCrosby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP9A...
Bob's take is from the 2024 film, #Reagan
You must leave, now take what you need you think will last ...
#BobaDay
#TheForum, Inglewood, CA, 14 February, 1974
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3k5...
One of today's nuggets from #TheMOJOFilter
Hey, mister Tambourine Man ...
#BobaDay
Baltimore, MD, 2000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOf...
One of his more weird versions
... I'm not sleepy and there ain't no place I'm going to
#BobaDay
Sheffield, May '66
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfku...
An alternate version from the Tambourine Man
Pardon me, if I'm sentimental
When we say goodbye ...
#BobaDay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=km6H...
Cut in '67 but didn't see release until 2014 on #TheBootlegSeriesVol11TheBasementTapesComplete - the first version came from #HankSnow in '52 - the #Elvis version was '58 (with Garland, Atkins & Cramer)