Today is Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday, So here the Singer Songwriter Tom Russell covering the song Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts from the album “Blood On The Tracks” like a mini-folk opera: Eliza Gilkyson plays both Lily and Rosemary, Joe Ely plays Big Jim, Tom play’s the Jack of Hearts. It’s a real cowboy-mystery song in vaudeville time. Only thing I can figure is that Lily kills big Jim and frames Rosemary, who gets hung for the crime. I get that from the line: “Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair…” Perhaps impersonating Rosemary as she knifed Big Jim – plus she came from a broken home and had a certain flash in her eyes. What’s your take on it? (Lost verse included)…oh well, it was “just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts.”
Tom Russell, Eliza Gilkyson, and Joe Ely cover Bob Dylan. From the 2004 album Indians Cowboys Horses And Dogs
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts, This song was transferred from a near mint vinyl test pressing of the withdrawn early New York version of Blood On The Tracks. These songs were recorded in New York in 1974. Bob Dylan changed his mind on many solo arrangements, deciding to re-record half of the songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota using a local backing band. also released on a bootleg entitled “Blood On The Tapes.”
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