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"This Wheel's on Fire" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko. [1] It was originally recorded by Dylan and the Band during their 1967 sessions, portions of which (including this song) comprised the 1975 album, The Basement Tapes. [2] The Band's own version appeared on their 1968 album, Music from Big Pink. [3]
"This Wheel's On Fire" closes the album "at a peak of sinister mystery", according to Gill, who suggests that it brings the record back to the motorcycle crash that created the circumstances for The Basement Tapes: "It is virtually impossible not to see the locked wheel of Dylan's Triumph 500 in the title, the very wheel upon which his own ...
Those tracks recorded specifically for the project were the title track (a song Danko had written in the 1970s but had yet to find a place for), "Ripple" (suggested by the President of Breeze Hill Records, who issued the album), "All Our Past Times" (in keeping with Danko's revisiting of a song from his younger days), "This Wheel's on Fire" (a ...
Brian Auger and the Trinity was a British band led by keyboardist Brian Auger.His duet with Julie Driscoll, the Bob Dylan/Rick Danko–penned "This Wheel's on Fire", was a number 5 hit on the 1968 UK Singles Chart.
Among the accusations Helm makes against Robertson is conspiring with record companies to steal song-writing credits from other members of the Band, arranging the group's break-up as a part of a private agenda, and conspiring with The Last Waltz director Martin Scorsese (a personal friend of Robertson) to make Robertson appear to be the leader ...
Driscoll is known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and the Trinity. Along with the Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee, singing "I'm a Believer" in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. [1]
Wheels on Fire may refer to: "This Wheel's on Fire" (song), a song by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko; Wheels on Fire (band), an American rock band; This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band, the autobiography of musician Levon Helm "Wheels on Fire," a song by The Magic Numbers from their 2005 album The Magic Numbers
The Basement Tapes is the sixteenth album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and his second with the Band.It was released on June 26, 1975, by Columbia Records.Two-thirds of the album's 24 tracks feature Dylan on lead vocals backed by the Band, and were recorded in 1967, eight years before the album's release, in the lapse between the release of Blonde on Blonde and the subsequent ...