Min Coverversion av Bob Dylans -It´s All Over Now Baby Blue-
Även inspelad av Them 1966, med samma arrangemang. En låt jag alltid gillat. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue är en låt skriven och framförd av Bob Dylan. Den kom först ut på albumet Bringing It All Back Home 1965 men har släppts på många andra samlingsalbum. Jag har gjort låten med svensk Text av Mikael Wiehe också. Jag gör gitarrerna och El-basen samt sången.

I låten är Dylan ensam på gitarr och munspel förutom en bas i bakgrunden. Det är den sista akustiska låten innan Dylan vänder sig till rock- och bluesmusiken helt. Dock hade första halvan på Bringing It All Back Home innehållit rock- och blues konceptet men "Baby Blue" var den allra sista innan Dylan övergav den akustiska musiken helt. Nästa album Highway 61 Revisited skulle endast innehålla låtar med band i bakgrunden. Därför kan låten ses som ett farväl till den sorts musik - protest-musiken som han hållit sig till under den tiden som professionell skivsläppare. "And it's all over now baby blue"; Den tiden är över nu - nu riktar han sig mot en annan sorts musik. Men det kan också vara ett farväl till en flickvän eller vän ("You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last"). Vissa har även menat att den är skriven till ett barn som söker tröst hos en vuxen ("The empty-handed painter from your streets, is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets, The sky, too, is folding under you, It's all over now baby blue").

A good comment I read about this song was the following: "I think there is one line here that is misunderstood, and it is pretty nifty.

When Dylan is wrapping up the song, and he's telling the woman to leave the dead and to start over, he says the line "strike another match girl, start anew" I really think it's "girl" and not "go"-- if you listen to the song it could go either way, but just here me out.

I think this line reference to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl," in which a vagabond child selling matches sees visions of warm, safe places she will never be a part of, and each time she lights a match she sees a new scene, a new life. At the end of the fairy-tale, she lights her final match and dies... but in Dylan's case, when he says to "light another match, girl" he's not talking about a REAL death, he's talking about a change. Like the girl in the story, the subject of this song is down-and-out, she thought she was in a safe place, but she's not-- the carpet's being pulled right out from under her. She needs to figuratively "light a match" and see the possibilities for a new life, and she needs to accept, even embrace this change and join the vagabond outside to start a new journey."

Great song.

Bob Dylan berättade i en intervju att han hade haft låten i sitt huvud en lång tid, utan att ha skrivit ner den. När han väl skrev ner den började han tänka på låten "Baby Blue" av Gene Vincent som han brukade sjunga när han gick i High School. "Of course, I was singing about a different baby blue" sa han sen.

Coverversioner har gjorts av bland andra Link Wray, Van Morrison, Hole, The Animals, The Chocolate Watchband, Count Five och The White Stripes. En översättning till svenska har gjorts av Mikael Wiehe, "Sakta lägger båten ut från land" vilken också spelades in av honom på albumet Sjömansvisor, 1978 [1] och av Wizex på albumet You Treated Me Wrong 1980. [2] Ytterligare en, mindre känd, översättning har gjorts av Lars Fernebring och finns inspelad på CD:n Inte ens ett farväl - Dylan på svenska.

-It´s All Over Now Baby Blue-

- Poor little Fool - String Along  -MIX3

-Don´t take me alive- Cover version - or Don´t catch me alive-


Om texten till Dont take me alive (= Don´t catch me alive) av Steely Dan: Lite kommentarer om låten.

I *LOVE* Steely Dan songs he says, me too I say! They're always so good and so complex at the same time. I know people talk about the generalities of their songs. I've read lots of "...this is about a guy who..." or general analysis about moods or
settings. But I've found that, honestly, Steely Dan *rarely* writes a song
about generalities - they're VERY specific. In fact, eerily so (see my
analysis of Glamour Profession). In my RS version I have done three different guitars communicating, and vokals, a lot of guitarwork on this song. I did this cover about 2014-15, now ten years ago.

That doesn't change the fact that the music is great! In fact, knowing how they compose lyrics makes me delve that much deeper...

"Don't Take Me Alive" off of "The Royal Scam" is about David Sylvan Fine, the youngest of the Sterling Hall bombers (at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison) who was captured in San Rafael, California in January of 1976. 
Despite the title of the song he WAS taken alive, spent three years in prison
and eventually became a paralegal in Oregon.


FIRST STANZA:

This is a David Fine (also known as William Fewes) inner monologue as the
'agents of the law' (FBI or, as they are known, "federal agents") surround
his room in San Rafael to arrest him for the Sterling Hall bombing in 1970. 

He was one of four men that bombed the building on the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus because it housed the Army Mathematics Research Center. (Three others were injured.) The 'luckless pedestrian' in first verse 1 is the only casualty of the Sterling Hall bombing, researcher Robert Fassnacht. He was unlucky to be a walking victim as it seems.

Don´t take me alive    (-Agents of the Law...Don´t catch me alive- MIX3)

-Du Ser En Man-   Cover version
Svensk Text Svante Turesson 1968. (Original written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David).
På min coverversion:  Sång, Gitarrer och Elbas av mig, RS

-DU SER EN MAN-

-Lady Writer- by Dire Straits in my Cover version

LADY WRITER on the TV Rosten Vaknar

Samba Pa Ti 

i min instrumentalversion, jag spelar på Gibson SG, kompgitarren på stratan.

-Samba Pa Ti-

“4 Stars - Q Recommends”
- Q magazine

From the album Strange Part of the Country:

w/ Grammy-winner Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), and bass legend Danny Thompson (Robert Plant, Nick Drake)

"One of the most original artists out there"
- Blues Matters magazine

Time Settles - Lyrics: 

And the decision made a hole, a vacancy in a vital inner chamber in my bones
This is what finally separated me from all my friends for whom I became skeletal

Time settles over me
Time settles over me 

And then the places I visit became the same inside world that I thought I was in
And like a fly scribbling the air I know neither the place nor what the hour is

Time settles over me
Time settles over me

And I, far off inside, was old

And now the years are closing in, each minute the last minute and following me

Time Settles

Videofilmerna till en del av låtarna finns på Youtube:  
RS ("Rosten Vaknar"@SoundCloud). Bland annat Erik Saties "Gymnopedies" med gitarren inspelat 1981.  https://youtu.be/30PQO-gtWEs?si=_Wo_y7FrIYs1VdJJ
Videos to some of the tracks are on Youtube:  RS ("Rosten Vaknar"@SoundCloud)

Don´t take me alive (-Agents of the Law...Don´t catch me alive- MIX3)

Rosten Vaknar - Neo RetroSpectivES

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