Andy Roberts Mozambique

Andy Roberts sings Bob Dylan's "Mozambique" at Havering Folk Club.
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[jaredneedsalife]

Desire, great album. Lyrically though its a nightmare to remember. Joey alone seems to have six hundred verses. Its a great album to play as the songs are pretty simple in terms of tunings (all in standard i think) and chord progressions. Great work anyhow, I honestly prefer your version to the original and I love the original !

[DrdotK]

This rendition is so good that I had to sign in and post this comment. Marvelous guitar work and mostly vocal delivery, but watch out and don't let some of the song sound exhausted. Great job!

[andyrob]

Memorising all the lyrics to some of Bob Dylan's longer balled for performing at places like Havering Folk Club is always a challenge. I used to have the whole of Hurricane and Isis in medium term memory but those days are gone. Must find out more about Levy by the way.

[andyrob]

Thanks for reminding me of Black Diamond Bay. Not the most memorable track it;s true, but one that does interesting things with lyrics and rhythm.

[otyikondo]

Nice. Thanks.

Dylan and Jacques Levy working out delightfully on the lyrics: Desire is so rich in lovely rhyme patterns. Refresh your memory by checking out Black Diamond Bay - it's on here somewhere. An oft-forgotten gem of the "narrative poem" genre he does so well.

[andyrobertsmusic]

Mozambique by Bob Dylan was performed at Havering Folk Club by Andy Roberts on an Ibanez 6 string acoustic guitar.

[andyrobertsmusic]

But these chords spread quite widely as it's relatively easy to master and seems to sound quite effective.

The song itself has been described as a "protest song" for the way that it completely ignores the civil war that still cast a bleak shadow over the country at the time, instead portraying this troubled part of Southern Africa as an ideal holiday destination.

[andyrobertsmusic]

This particular way of playing the song was something I originally derived from a bloke called Colin who was a fellow busker in Paris at the time. He could remember all the words to Hurricane as well! It's not how Dylan plays it himself, and on the album I think a violin features quite prominently with the guitar mainly keeping the rthym.

[andyrobertsmusic]

I don't know how many people remember the original version of this on Bob Dylan's "Desire" album but I thought the whole record was very exciting when it came out in 1974.