An alternative (and occasional) music posting highlighting something out of the ordinary. Perhaps of limited appeal, unconventional, experimental or just far-out ! Call it what you like (or switch it off, if you don't like). 

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: the American biographical music film directed by James Mangold and starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan. Have you seen it ?

It's really good and among many things it presented a number of Dylan songs I either wasn't familiar with or at least I'd forgotten them completely (almost completely unknown) !

 

From his debut LP there was his version of 'Baby Let Me Follow You Down' learnt from Eric von Schmidt (as per the track intro):  https://youtu.be/QgJ9oUX1pbA?si=PLQNUrL60w8ll19I

The Animals version of this song called ‘Baby Can I Take You Home’ is very different and was apparently a key influence on Dylan's change to electric music - [we will 'Take You Home', soon]. 

Then from the album 'The Times They Are a-Changin' came the song 'When the Ship Comes In': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c9_XkYYjTU  

Dylan performed this song during 'Live Aid' on July 13, 1985, accompanied by Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones. So I'd forgotten that !

Finally during the movie the song 'Railroad Bill', a traditional blues ballad dating back to the 19th century, was sung by Bobby Neuwirth and Bob Dylan together in the recording studio. The track was never released until a bootleg series of LPs were made available: Vol 10 'Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)' contained 'Railroad Bill' >

'Railroad Bill' version from 1929 by Frank Hutchison FYI here

Another notable from the film was the performance of Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. This Friday coming we'll be heading down that road...