Thanks for the link, Damian. His voice is getting smoother with age, like Scotch.

There's no doubt Dylan's voice deteriorated in the late 80s, but I have to agree Tim that with these more recent Sinatra/American Standard cuts, his voice is sounding a lot better - more like an old crooner, than a Tom Waits' screecher. There's 3 albums in the series (the last being a triple album, so effectively that's 5 albums of material), but I would cut to the chase and only listen to the following 9 tracks:

The Night We Called It A Day
Some Enchanted Evening
Full Moon and Empty Arms
That Lucky Old Sun
All the Way
Skylark
Melancholy Mood
Once Upon a Time
My One and Only Love

There's a nice version of Dylan performing 'The Night We Called It A Day' on the final Letterman show....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJhS6JPcjA

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Fyi, that was not the final Letterman show.

Since we have the time, let's add another great storyteller in song (singing on stage with another one of the greats). It's a prescient song:

https://youtu.be/E3MNG11oynA
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Oral stories are fun, but
 

but all of these posts are about musicians and mostly Bob Dylan. Are there any amusing stories out there that are not about musicians? I like Dylan, but not that much.:)

Just checked Jim, you are correct, it wasn't the last Letterman show...it was the second last show.

Don't get me started on Warren Zevon. I love the man. Second only to Dylan for me. A virtuoso musician and a great wit. The Dorothy Parker of rock 'n' roll. 'Spendid Isolation' is a perfect song for our times (I posted the lyrics in the Drills and Amusement section last week).

Zevon has some of the most brilliant lines, none better than this one:

Albert Einstein was a ladies’ man
While he was working on his universal plan
He was making out like Charlie Sheen
He was a genius
(Genius)

I don't know his whole catalogue, but Neil Young had some songs, including "Powderfinger," "After the Gold Rush," and "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331kyZ9OXMc

I don't know his whole catalogue, but Neil Young had some songs, including "Powderfinger," "After the Gold Rush," and "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331kyZ9OXMc

I ended up posting twice because I got an error message saying there was a glitch in the system.

I'm more of a Warren Zevon man (as per Jim's link above), but I do like Neil Young a lot and particularly 'Powderfinger' - a masterpiece. I've listened to it hundreds of times and pondered over the meaning and imagery. It's like a Southern gothic novel told in just a few verses.

Also love 'Tell Me Why', 'Barstool Blues', 'Winterlong' & 'Long May You Run'.

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This thread's gone on too long... I don't know if this was posted earlier in the thread, but it works as a final statement and brings full circle the reason why it was started in the first place: music is storytelling.
Robbie Robertson happened to tell this one, too, with some help from his friends from around the world.

https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ

Let's call it quits.
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Never call it quits! Something in your taking the last word makes me want to speak up. And we've barely begun to talk about the late great Warren Zevon (Neil Young? Meh. "Helpless" was pretty good...).

I hadn't seen or heard this version of "The Weight," which is lovely. (Man, Ringo looks hale!). Still, it's sending me back to the original for the voices that told the story first, those of Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, and Levon Helm (RIP).

"The Band"? Most pretentious moniker ever. And worthy of it.