Ray Padgett
@raypadgett.bsky.social
Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3).
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How do you air-drum to Key West?
November 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
How do you air-drum to Key West?
Spotted at a wine store in Kingston NY
November 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Spotted at a wine store in Kingston NY
I want him to somehow cover this album cover
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I want him to somehow cover this album cover
Bob Dylan seemingly has been spinning late-period Van Morrison albums on the tour bus this year
Two songs now performed from 2016's Keep Me Singing:
* Going Down to Bangor (last night)
* Share Your Love with Me
Plus one that was on 2017's Roll with the Punches:
* I Can Tell
Two songs now performed from 2016's Keep Me Singing:
* Going Down to Bangor (last night)
* Share Your Love with Me
Plus one that was on 2017's Roll with the Punches:
* I Can Tell
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Bob Dylan seemingly has been spinning late-period Van Morrison albums on the tour bus this year
Two songs now performed from 2016's Keep Me Singing:
* Going Down to Bangor (last night)
* Share Your Love with Me
Plus one that was on 2017's Roll with the Punches:
* I Can Tell
Two songs now performed from 2016's Keep Me Singing:
* Going Down to Bangor (last night)
* Share Your Love with Me
Plus one that was on 2017's Roll with the Punches:
* I Can Tell
Important milestone: This is the first person I've interviewed given bunny ears by Barbara Bush
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Important milestone: This is the first person I've interviewed given bunny ears by Barbara Bush
I don’t know all the goddam signs are in French!
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I don’t know all the goddam signs are in French!
"Zelda is a Monkee fan, so naturally she collects a few ‘‘souvenirs.’’ So far she has accumulated 10,217 cigarette butts, 4,938 candy bar and gum wrappers, 3 broken shoelaces, 762 empty cardboard coffee containers, 6,551 pieces of waxed paper (some with chunks of cheeseburgers and french fries…"
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Zelda is a Monkee fan, so naturally she collects a few ‘‘souvenirs.’’ So far she has accumulated 10,217 cigarette butts, 4,938 candy bar and gum wrappers, 3 broken shoelaces, 762 empty cardboard coffee containers, 6,551 pieces of waxed paper (some with chunks of cheeseburgers and french fries…"
Supper Club > MTV Unplugged
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Supper Club > MTV Unplugged
Today's date in Dylan concert posters
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Today's date in Dylan concert posters
The Never Ending Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour continues!
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The Never Ending Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour continues!
What do you call a pile of dirt that plays the banjo?
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What do you call a pile of dirt that plays the banjo?
Huh they seemed to have initially announced this new album with a normal cover (L) but have since replaced it everywhere with a shitty AI version (R)
Men Without Hats Hive rise up! <crickets>
Men Without Hats Hive rise up! <crickets>
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Huh they seemed to have initially announced this new album with a normal cover (L) but have since replaced it everywhere with a shitty AI version (R)
Men Without Hats Hive rise up! <crickets>
Men Without Hats Hive rise up! <crickets>
Why is this in my bed? Is this a five year old’s version of that scene in the Godfather?
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Why is this in my bed? Is this a five year old’s version of that scene in the Godfather?
Ha I've got something with that picture publishing in a few days. Zoom out on the Rolling Stone page with that photo and—well would you look who it is
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ha I've got something with that picture publishing in a few days. Zoom out on the Rolling Stone page with that photo and—well would you look who it is
Madonna still has not showed
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Madonna still has not showed
Maybe my favorite ten seconds on these tapes. Bob Dylan simply cannot stop thinking about pie.
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Maybe my favorite ten seconds on these tapes. Bob Dylan simply cannot stop thinking about pie.
Surprise! The first Bob Dylan soundboards in 16 years. The Outlaw Tour has never sounded better.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Surprise! The first Bob Dylan soundboards in 16 years. The Outlaw Tour has never sounded better.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-outlaw...
Sure indie bands have to wait months to get their records pressed but it was worth it to get eight different versions of "Take On Me" pressed on red vinyl for Record Store Day
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Sure indie bands have to wait months to get their records pressed but it was worth it to get eight different versions of "Take On Me" pressed on red vinyl for Record Store Day
Dylan's setlist isn't changing this fall, but the arrangements are. "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" was grooving full-band one night in Brussels, then serene near-solo-piano the very next show in Paris.
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Dylan's setlist isn't changing this fall, but the arrangements are. "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" was grooving full-band one night in Brussels, then serene near-solo-piano the very next show in Paris.
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
Here's the same stanza from each to compare:
I thought that would be the most ridiculous cover-song cover art I saw today.
I thought wrong.
I thought wrong.
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I thought that would be the most ridiculous cover-song cover art I saw today.
I thought wrong.
I thought wrong.
What genius thought it was a good idea to be fulling grinning on the cover of a song called Summertime Sadness
October 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What genius thought it was a good idea to be fulling grinning on the cover of a song called Summertime Sadness