(Boston) Jim wrote:
> > Instead of "Tangled Up In Blue," I should have written "You're Gonna Make
>Me Lonesome When You Go." Dylan set aside "Up To Me" during the sessions for
>"Blood On The Tracks," preferring to use the melody and the chord structure,
>albeit with some revisions, as his vehicle for his lyrics to YGMMLWYG>
>
>Oops, again! Make that "Shelter From The Storm." I just listened to "Up To
>Me" again, and it's "Shelter From The Storm" I'm hearing (for sure)!
>
>Okay, red-faced, I'll shut up now. :-)
So close, Jim. Perhaps you're thinking of "Call Letter Blues" on THE
BOOTLEG SERIES, which is a note for note replicant of "Meet Me in the Morning."
>P.S. My original point about McGuinn having learned "Up To Me" and the early
>version of Joni's "Dreamland" while touring with them in the Rolling Thunder
>Revue - and then cutting them for his "Cardiff Rose" LP - still stands,
>however.
Earlier versions of songs -- or tracking the provenance of the versions
covered by somebody else -- are always revealing of the work process, which
is usually fascinating. Some artists perform unfinished songs in concert,
and years later when we buy the albums we seem to have missed something.
I don't know where I'm going with this, but I'd like to point out that
McGuinn obviously had access to the original basement tapes acetate, but
that Joan Baez did not, since her version of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" uses
the published lyrics. Similarly, every cover of "All Along the Watchtower"
follows Hendrix, not Dylan ("outside in the cold distance"/"outside in the
distance").
Gil
