The previous post alludes to the Dylan song, Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love), a song which operates on multiple levels (and in that it is not unlike most Bob Dylan songs, of-course). In the book "Keys To The Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encylopedia" (one of several I’m told), the author Oliver Trager has an entry on this song in which he highlights a particular live version from 1993:

In a stroke of brilliance, he dusted off the song for a couple of downright jazzy acoustic band performances complete with a smoky harmonica run at the special New York City Supper Club shows in November 1993, the second of which stands as one of his greatest moments on stage — a teetering, on-the-high wire tour de force that brought out every ounce of drama the song has to offer. Dylan must have realized he would never top himself on that one: He has never performed the song again.

Well, that’s a definite point of view. Click here to listen to that performance and judge for yourself. It’s certainly true that Dylan hasn’t performed the song publicly since then, although he’s not exactly hurting for tunes with which to flesh out his set lists.

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