Hello and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album. It's Ben Burrell here. We are continuing to look at Oh Mercy on this episode. It's Omercy Revisited Part 2. Of course it is. I wanted to say thank you to you. If you sent me a message after the last episode had some messages that were very nice, had some coffees as well. If you bought me a coffee, thank you so much for that. That's like an internet tipping system if you aren't aware of it i was not aware of it until a few years ago you can spend like three dollars um buying me a coffee i literally do function on caffeine these days um so if you want to do that if you're someone that's enjoyed the podcast and you want to send a little virtual tip uh you can do that on buy me a coffee dot com the The link is in this episode's description. Let's get to part two on No Mercy, shall we? I love this record. It's a classic in my opinion. What I think is interesting about it as well, and this is just coming to me. I don't know if I mentioned this in the episodes or not. Probably did. But I think it's interesting, almost unique in the fact that a lot of these songs take place in a similar atmosphere to the one they were recorded in.

I can hear a lot of these songs happening in like a New Orleans kind of hot night in a big dark house maybe, like the one Bob recorded the album in with Daniel Lamois.

So I guess it's interesting that the songs share a lot with the atmosphere they were recorded in.

Just a little random thought for you there.

You're welcome.

I could talk about this album for hours and in fact, I do.

So let's get back to it, shall we?

This is part two on Oh Mercy.

It's Bob Dylan, the album by album, and this is Oh Mercy Revisited.

Thank you. Bob did an album by album and this is Oh Mercy Revisited. With two songs already in the bank, Dylan and Lanwar must have entered the third

O Mercy session in buoyant mood. There were some new faces in the bank, Dylan and Lanwar must have entered the third Omercy session in

buoyant mood. There were some new faces in the room that day too. The pair were joined in this

session by Willie Green, nicknamed Mean Willie Green, who had been the Neville Brothers drummer for 30

years. They were also joined by a Neville brother too. Cyril, Neville, to be precise.

Both Neville and Green lived closely.

Lamois joked that one of New Orleans Funkiest had lived in the next neighbourhood.

How cool is that, he says.

Mean Willie Green was just one fast phone call away.

He was also complimentary of Cyril's playing too.

He says, to be in a room with Cyril and Charles and all of

those guys, that was really something else. Both these people are crucial to this record. They are like

soldiers in Lanwar's sound battle. They really do help to make that swampy sound as Lamois calls it.

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