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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer–songwriter, author, poet, and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for more than five decades. Many major recording artists have covered Dylan's material, some even increasing a song's popularity as is the case with the Byrds ' cover version of " Mr ...
[3] [unreliable source] [2] Sixteen artists collaborated to compile the album, which was released on October 5, 2010, by Reimagine Music. [4] [5] The first eleven songs of the compilation appeared on Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home. The twelfth song was released only as a single, while the final four songs appeared on Dylan's official ...
In spite of the song's title, it is not a blues but rather a folk song that uses the same chord pattern as Pachelbel's Canon. [1] Dylan scholar and musicologist Eyolf Ostrem notes that "[m]usically, it is a close cousin of "'Cross the Green Mountain" with which it shares the ever-descending bass line and some of the chord shadings that never manage to decide whether they're major or minor (and ...
The 11th installment in the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, it was released by Legacy Records on November 3, 2017, and is available in three versions: a two-disc set common to the rest of the series after the first three volumes; a four-LP album version of the standard set; and a nine-disc deluxe version with one disc a DVD. A two-disc bonus set was ...
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. Perennial Currents. ISBN 0-06-052569-X; Heylin, Clinton (2009). Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973. Cappella Books. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1556528439. Marqusee, Mike (2005). Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583226865.
In 2002 Uncut magazine listed it as the number 38 all-time best Bob Dylan song. [22] Music journalist Toby Creswell included "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" on his list of the 1001 greatest songs of all time, and music critic Dave Marsh ranked the live version from Liverpool as the 243rd-greatest single of all time and as one of the dozen or so ...
The version of the song on Highway 61 Revisited is an acoustic/electric blues song, one of three blues songs on the album (the others being "From a Buick 6" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is made up of lines taken from older blues songs combined with Dylan's own lyrics. [ 2 ]
In 2013, Jim Beviglia rated it as the 70th-best of Dylan's songs, and praised Dylan's "ingenious poetic techniques". [27] Neil Spencer gave the song a rating of 5/5 stars in an Uncut magazine Dylan supplement in 2015. [47] Highlighting Dylan's harmonica part and Wayne Moss's guitar, Dylan discography author John Nogowski gave the song an "A ...