Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky
Your back is straight your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie
But I don’t sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go
To the valley below
Your daddy he’s an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He’ll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go
To the valley below
Your sister sees the future
Like your mama and yourself
You’ve never learned to read or write
There’s no books upon your shelf
And your pleasure knows no limits
Your voice is like a meadowlark
But your heart is like an ocean
Mysterious and dark
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee ‘fore I go
To the valley below
Birth name: Robert Allen Zimmerman Born: May 24, 1941 - Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. Genres: Folk, rock, blues, country Instruments: Vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboards Years active: 1959 - present
Bob Dylan is the most influential Artist in popular culture!
Widely regarded as the most influential artist in popular culture, Bob Dylan has been covered and copied by almost everyone who ever attempted writing a song.
Some might even say he invented modern songwriting.
It is difficult to find an artist post 1960 who has not been heavily influenced directly or indirectly by Bob Dylan. Among his classics you’d find:
Blowin’ In The Wind, Mr Tambourine Man, Hurricane, Mr Bojangles, Knocking On Heavens Door, All Along The Watchtower, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Like A Rolling Stone, One More Cup Of Coffee, Sara and Make You Feel My Love!
Half a century later, Bob Dylan still performs Blowin’ In The Wind!
Blowin’ In The Wind is a song from the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
This wasn’t Dylan’s first album, and he still mainly played covers at this point but Blowin’ In The Wind was his, and everybody around him covered it. Peter Paul & Mary actually charted way before Dylan did with his own version.
Blowin’ In The Wind is often used as an example of “the protest song”, posing philosophical questions about peace, war and freedom. 1960s American teens couldn’t get enough of this and Dylan became an icon.
The follow up to this now legendary album has been many and Dylan is now approaching half a century as an active recording artist.
For many he still remains the one man band that sang Blowin’ In The Wind, The Times They Are A Changing and Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. For some he is the 70s vibe with One More Cup Of Coffee and Tangled Up In Blue.
One thing is certain, Bob Dylan shall keep blowin’ in the wind for as long as he is still around.
In 1999, Blowin’ In The Wind was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame. In 2004 it was listed as #14 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
One More Cup Of Coffee is from the 1976 album Desire!
One more cup of coffee (Valley Below) is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Desire.
This 1976 recording is ranked by many as Bob Dylan’s finest collaboration work.
Dylan had approached the concept of making an album from many different angels and this 17th studio album was his first attempt at a large collaborative effort.
Collaborative for Dylan meant chaotic for the rest of the band, the violin player for example, Scarlet Rivera was spotted walking down the street with her violin case as Dylan past by in his limo.
Scarlet ended up playing on most songs on the album which was recorded at several session during 1975.
Overseen by producer Don Devito, many famed musicians were involved in the making of Desire.
Desire guest Artists
Eric Clapton was at one point present but he soon left the studio, advising Dylan to get a smaller band (there where five guitar players present on that day)
Emmylou Harris sings the improvised harmony on the original recording making it her first big performance as she at the time was relatively unknown.
It is very possible that Dylan surrounded himself with this many musicians since his marriage was heavily on the rocks during this time.
The song Sara speaks for itself, the vocal take for Sara was done with Dylan singing it to her in the studio, two years later she filed for divorce.
Another controversial track off Desire is Hurricane, a true tale of how Rubin Hurricane Carter was wrongly jailed for triple murder.
Dylan has since 1976 never performed the song again.
Desire is one of those albums that, should you buy it, it could change your perception of music.
Since its release, One More Cup Of Coffee has been covered by many artists including The White Stripes, Calexico, Roger McGuinn and Robert Plant.
When learning guitar one can get over whelmed with all the chords, rhythms, time signatures and all the rest of it that come into play.
At the end of the day it is what you sound like to the audience that matters, and in order to sound good there is only one way forward: attention to detail!
Turns out there is a variation that is so small one can easily miss it, I certainly did in the last lesson!
The middle of the bar
One of the most efficient tricks of making your strumming pattern sound like it moves along nicely, without sounding boring is to disguise the middle of the bar.
In Talking About A Revolution (Beginner Guitar Lesson 2) we do this by starting the Cadd9 one 8th note earlier, this moves the song along. You play 3 8th notes over the G chord, and 5 over the Cadd9. Compare this to playing 4 8th notes for each chord, what a difference!
In One More Cup Of Coffee we can apply the same trick by adding a tie over the middle of the bar. See fig below.
one more cup of coffee rhythm with tie
As you play the song, vary your strumming pattern by playing with and without the tie.
As always, do compare the rhythm to what it would have looked like in double time, see fig below.
One more cup of coffee rhythm lesson with tie. 2 bars
There you go, attention to detail, that’s what will take you past the stage of being able to do it to the stage of sounding great.
As with many of the acoustic songs here at Spy Tunes, the guitar arrangement is designed to carry the song on its own, rather than being exactly what you hear on the record.
Let’s take look at what I ended up playing when I arranged One More Cup Of Coffee for one guitar.
When you do you can see that the only difference between E and F is one fret!
Amadd9
A unique chord is used in Spy Tunes version of One More Cup of Coffee, the reason it’s unique is because it’s using open strings, because of this you can’t move it around the fretboard.
Have a go fretting this chord and closely examine the intervals.
Can you see the connection between the intervals and the name of the chord?
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The most influential artist in popular culture!
