Dave Matthews Band - All Along The Watchtower (Farm Aid, 1999)

 

Dave Matthews Band w Neil Young

Farm Aid Concert

Stone Ridge, VA

Sep 12, 1999

 

 

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

 

 

John Wesley Harding (1967)에 실려있는 밥 딜런의 명곡으로 꼽히는 곡중 하나입니다. Jimi Hendrix의 Cover가 유명한 곡이기도 하고요. 딜런의 30th Anniversary Concert에서는 닐영이 불렀습니다. Neil Young, Dave Matthews Band 둘 다 자신들의 컨서트에서 종종 불렀던 곡인데 여기서는 둘이 어쿠스틱 기타를 들고 같이 부르네요. 매우 조용한 시작(이건 Dave Mattews Band의 이곡 연주 스타일이죠), 어쿠스틱 기타와 바이얼린 연주, 폭발적인 마무리가 인상적인 곡입니다.