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"Girl from the North Country" (occasionally known as "Girl of the North Country") is a song written by Bob Dylan. It was recorded at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City in April 1963, and released the following month as the second track on Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.
On the occasion of the West End transfer, Richard Williams wrote in The Guardian "The great achievement of Girl from the North Country, Conor McPherson's musical based on the work of Bob Dylan, lies in the ability of the writer-director and his musical supervisor, Simon Hale, to find shades of meaning within some of the songs that would surely ...
'Girl From the North Country,' now having its L.A. premiere at the Hollywood Pantages, stitches together Bob Dylan classics in a play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.
Dylan, when asked point-blank in 1986 whether Helstrom was the Girl, characteristically prevaricated with an answer of only "Well, she's a north country girl through and through". [12] Dylan expert Michael Gray averred in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia that in his opinion Helstrom was likely, at least in part, an inspiration for Dylan's song "Hazel ...
PITTSBURGH ― Wayward souls collide in a 1934 Duluth, Minn., boarding house in Broadway's Bob Dylan jukebox musical "Girl From The North Country" playing through Sunday at the Benedum Center.
Bob Dylan's songs are reimagined in the Tony-winning musical, but you don't have to be a mega-fan or even a casual listener of his to see the show. 9 things to know as the Bob Dylan musical 'Girl ...
"North Country Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. He also performed it at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival . Its apparently simple format (ten verses of ABCB rhyme scheme ), accompanied by only two chords (Cm & Bb) and subject matter (the perils of life in a mining community ...
Before Simon learned the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines of lyrics from Carthy's arrangement to create his song "Girl from the North Country", [39] which is featured on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Nashville Skyline (1969) (with Johnny Cash), Real Live (1984) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993).