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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 ...
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", [37] 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).
'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.
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Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in the 1941 film The Maltese Falcon.Dylan borrowed lines from this and other Bogart films for "Tight Connection to My Heart". Dylan critic Michael Gray notes that, as elsewhere on the Empire Burlesque album, "Tight Connection to My Heart" includes references to a number of lines of dialogue from Humphrey Bogart films. [5]
The first two fruits of his labor are out now ahead of the Dec. 25 release of the Columbia soundtrack, in the form of “Girl From the North Country” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”
Bob Wootton – electric guitar on "Girl from the North Country" Charlie Daniels – bass guitar, guitar; Marshall Grant – bass guitar on "Girl from the North Country" Bob Wilson – organ, piano; Kenneth A. Buttrey – drums, bongos, cowbell [22] W. S. Holland – drums on "Girl from the North Country" Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar