Jack White Meets Bob Dylan In The Evening

Meg White is temporarily out of commission, so Jack White has found a new performance partner: Bob Dylan. White shocked the crowd at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium last night when he joined Dylan for the first ever live performance of the Blood on the Tracks gem "Meet Me In The Morning." White's band The Raconteurs opened for Dylan last year but the two never shared the stage. (Their only other prior duet was at a Dylan concert in Detroit four years ago when they did the White Stripes song "Ball and Biscuit.") Elvis Costello, who is set to join the Dylan tour this Saturday night, also surprised the crowd with a brief solo acoustic set after opening act Amos Lee.

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Song Stories

“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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