June 26, 2016
By David Lindquist
...Across decades (click here) of live performances, Bob Dylan rarely has been accused of precisely communicating his lyrics.
Instead, the iconic singer-songwriter clears his throat to obscure famous lines or alters time signatures to head off any possibility of an audience sing-along....
...Dylan cast a spell with early Sinatra B-side “Melancholy Mood” and Irving Berlin’s “What’ll I Do."
In his supporting cast, Donnie Herron played pedal steel guitar and Tony Garnier bowed his upright bass to bring big band and/or orchestral accents to these oldies.
But Dylan handled the heavy lifting when enunciating so clearly and investing so much emotion in "I’m a Fool to Want You,” a tune Sinatra recorded in 1951."Fool's" narrator faces a quandary: He thinks might leave his lover, but then he would need her again and eventually beg her to take him back....
