The Ballad of Blake Mills

The secret recipe in that fine dessert that is Rough and Rowdy Ways (from the archive)

This post originates to 2020 on the old peterstonebrown.com blog, around the release time of Rough and Rowdy Ways. I’m looking for copies of the original Blake Mills guitar parts videos (they were on his instagram account) if anyone has copies

Those with their hands on the new Bob Dylan album will see that the credits provide a little puzzle. Aside from Dylan’s band getting the usual name and instrument check, there is a section titled ‘additional musicians’, which includes the great Benmont Tench, Alan Pasqua (who played on the Nobel speech and Street Legal), Fiona Apple and Blake Mills.

Hi Duncan…on the night that I recorded, I played piano, Benmont on Hammond organ, Blake on harmonium and Bob, of course at the mic. It was an amazing process and in my humble opinion, an iconic song.

— Alan Pasqua (@alanpasqua) June 18, 2020