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From seeing old friends at the Red River Zoo or catching favorite musical acts on the big stage, there are several reasons to get out this weekend.

Charley Patton   Mississippi Boweavil Blues Down the Dirt Road Blues Pony Blues Pea Vine Blues Prayer of Death, Pt. 1 - Charley Patton, Traditional Prayer of Death, Pt. 2 - Charley Patton, Traditional Lord, Im Discouraged Elder Greene Blues - Charley Patton, Patton Circle Round the Moon Mean Black Cat Blues   Some These Days Ill Be Gone Green River Blues Magnolia Blues Heart Like Railroad Steel Jim Lee Blues, Pt. 1 Kim Lee Blues, Pt. 2 - Charley Patton, High Water Everywhere, Pt. 1 High Wate...

I like the “Bob Dylan period” of Modern Times a lot,  I play it often. I love it, one of the great albums from the first ten years of the 2000s. This is a post where I have “dug” out some cover versions of the songs on the record, I would say that none of them are as good as the originals, but they’re good and they are interesting. Many of the album’s songs have roots in well-known older compositions, though in all cases, Dylan has given the songs new lyrics. Some of the “cover ...