One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan) (Cover by Paul.)

[cinderellalifestyle]

really neat Paul.........I did not listen to much Dylan growing up, ...I should undertake a study----I like the aged Bob as well as any of his early works....but the early are likely not as tainted by life, and commecial influence......I dunno......a wonderful performance..like your stories from the raod.have you written them all down? would make a great book, I'm sure.

Take care!.I'm off to have one more cup of coffee......XOs, Laurie

[paulhallart]

Hi Laurie. Sorry2take so long responding, was doing a channel4a friend (benmabandla -- South Africa songs and stories in Alaska). u probably guessed that I was doing one for another friend in Puerto Rico (sebacantaparati - originals and covers). I tried to do free YT channels4a bunch of other people but they thought I was hustling them. Yeah, the Cup of Coffee rendition I did used a Spanish Flamenco cord run and is really different than Bob's original version. Mine is popular in Greece+Turkey.

[paulhallart]

Bob was my neighbor back in the sixties. six teas and one more cup of coffee. We lived in the West Village back when I was the first life guard in NYC with long hair. They used to call me "Planet Man" 'cause I was made to wear a bathing cap and in the NYC parks LG uniform at age 19, I looked like one of the X Men. Later, I met him briefly. I was rounding th'corner at Houston+Elizabeth at 6am with a pole lamp. he was in pajamas talking2a suit and yelled2me 'watch where u'r goin with that thing'.

[Beardedyoungman]

Man, your a good singer paul!

[PaulBradford13]

This reminds me of the one of the few times I hitched from New Jersey to Canada via the New York State Thruway. Dylan was listened to in almost every car I rode in. It seems everyone was listening to Dylan in those days. Montreal was the cleanest city I ever saw at that point. Compared to New York City, you could eat eggs off the street.

I see you are not shy in using the emboss and plastic wrap filters etc.. It seems sometimes that the filters take away from the true beauty that lies beneath

[paulhallart]

You were fortunate. When I hitched cross country it was stuff like Lovin' Spoonfull and P. Floyd.

This seems to be a 19th Century Gypsy song or at least about Gypsies. It's more like classical Spanish stuff. Dylan apparently did it as a cover. I find use of filters helps photography, a weak medium, to get closer to how the human eye actually perceives things. Maybe u're right, but with expressionism; one must be bold. Experimentation is gateway to validity. Wheel sea; I'll try some w'outem.

[PaulBradford13]

I didn't mean this particular song, but Dylan in general.

As far as the filters go, it's not a bad thing. Anything you can use to enhance or get across the image you see in your head (which is always better) is fair game.

Paul

[SharineONeill]

Hi Paul, this again is a WONDERful cover! Thank you for sharing! 5 huge and glittering stars and Love from Austria - Sharine

[paulhallart]

Thanks Sharine! It is a beautiful melody. I listened to it in one of Bob Dylan's albums over and over as I drove a van from Holland to southern Spain over the Pyrenees mountains.

I remember how many times I grabbed a second cup of coffee before walking out to the road and hitching a few hundred kilometers to some next destination "in the valley below...". It was often all I could afford. I would learn the value of a country's currency by the cost of a cup of coffee. I called it "vitamin x".