I hadn’t seen or heard this particular performance until today. You may think what you like about Sinead—personally I wish her well in battling the demons that surround us all—but this is just the best rendition of this Bob Dylan song by anyone that I’ve ever heard. She gets it, in this moment, top to bottom.
Via YouTube: Continue reading ““I Believe In You” – Sinead O’Connor (1999)”
Thanks to Bob Wilson for referring me to the nice version of Bob Dylan’s heart-rending song “I Believe in You” by Alison Krauss. She’s performing with the house band of the Transatlantic Session TV series. Clip from YouTube below.
If one had never heard of the song before, I guess that it would come across here as a song of devotion to a lover who is strangely unpopular with everyone else; an individual who most people are warning you against. Something like a more-meditative take on the “Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las maybe: “My folks were always putting him down (down, down) / They said he came from the wrong side of town / They told me he was bad / But I knew he was sad / That’s why I fell for the leader of the pack …” Continue reading ““I Believe In You” – Alison Krauss Sings Dylan”
