“Ganges Delta Blues” is a track from the album, A Meeting by the River, which was a collaboration between American songwriter and slide guitarist, Ry Cooder, and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, a Hundustani classical musician. Bhatt plays a monhan veena, an instrument of his own invention which has been described as a hybrid between a guitar and a vichitra veena.
Next week, I'll be featuring Dylan covers all week in honor of his birthday (May 24). We'll be hearing other people play Bob Dylan's songs.
Today, we have Bob Dylan performing Woody Guthrie's song, Do Re Mi, at the Malibu Performing Arts Center in January 2009. Dylan shares the stage with two other renowned musicians/composers Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks.