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Song of the Day #609: ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ – Bob Dylan

John Wesley Harding is probably best known for ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ although it would be more accurate to say that ‘All Along the Watchtower’ is well-known because of Jimi Hendrix and John Wesley Harding is best known as the album that contains the original version.

The only other song that made any sort of commercial splash was ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,’ the album’s closing track, and it wasn’t until a 1990 cover by Robert Palmer and UB40 that it reached the charts.

You can hear that version here but I don’t recommend it on a full stomach.

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Song of the Day #608: ‘I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine’ – Bob Dylan

It’s easy to break Bob Dylan’s career into segments: we’ve already noted the shift from the political to the personal and the shift from acoustic to electric, both of which were examples of Dylan changing his musical direction. Now we come to a shift that was caused by an unplanned event changing him.

In July of 1966, just two months after the release of Blonde on Blonde, Dylan was in a serious motorcycle accident. Though the extent of his injuries remains unclear, the more lasting impact was emotional. Dylan ceased touring, withdrew from the limelight and concentrated on his life as a family man.

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