Bob Dylan isn’t a singer who has written many top-10 charting singles. He’s never concerned himself with writing pop hits, but he also releases songs often longer than most hit singles. However, even Bob Dylan thought he got carried away when he wrote this song that lasted more than 10 minutes.
Bob Dylan thinks he got ‘carried away’ when he wrote ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’
“Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” was the final track of Dylan’s 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, and it took up the entire fourth side of the album. It’s an overwhelming song that lasts around 11 minutes and 23 seconds. In Dylan’s 1976 song, “Sara”, he confirmed this track was written for his first wife, Sara Dylan.
Dylan has had mixed feelings toward the song throughout his career. At one point, he believed it was the “best song” he’d ever written. However,...
Bob Dylan thinks he got ‘carried away’ when he wrote ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’
“Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” was the final track of Dylan’s 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, and it took up the entire fourth side of the album. It’s an overwhelming song that lasts around 11 minutes and 23 seconds. In Dylan’s 1976 song, “Sara”, he confirmed this track was written for his first wife, Sara Dylan.
Dylan has had mixed feelings toward the song throughout his career. At one point, he believed it was the “best song” he’d ever written. However,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan released the song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” in 1964. The song was a ripped-from-the-headlines protest song about the death of a Black woman named Hattie Carroll following an attack from a wealthy, white bar patron, William Zantzinger. The song is well-written but includes some historical inaccuracies. According to Dylan’s biographer Clinton Heylin, he was lucky he didn’t get sued over the song.
Bob Dylan didn’t get all the facts accurate in 1 of his songs, said his biographer
Dylan wrote the song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” after reading a news story about Carroll’s death. Zantzinger was intoxicated and shouted at Carroll before hitting her with his cane. Carroll spoke about how much Zantzinger upset her before collapsing. She died of a brain hemorrhage several hours later.
After reading about Carroll’s death, Dylan wrote a song about her. In it, he chronicled...
Bob Dylan didn’t get all the facts accurate in 1 of his songs, said his biographer
Dylan wrote the song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” after reading a news story about Carroll’s death. Zantzinger was intoxicated and shouted at Carroll before hitting her with his cane. Carroll spoke about how much Zantzinger upset her before collapsing. She died of a brain hemorrhage several hours later.
After reading about Carroll’s death, Dylan wrote a song about her. In it, he chronicled...
- 6/17/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan has written a number of epic songs in his career, and some have taken inspiration from real life. Dylan has written about actual historical events and figures in his music. Some of these are more historically accurate than others. Here are five of the people and events behind his music.
‘Murder Most Foul’ is Bob Dylan’s longest song
In 2020, Dylan released his 39th album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. The album’s longest song — and the longest of his career — was “Murder Most Foul.” The nearly 17-minute song is about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“‘Twas a dark day in Dallas, November’ 63/ A day that will live on in infamy/ President Kennedy was a-ridin’ high/ Good day to be livin’ and a good day to die/ Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb/ He said, ‘Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?'...
‘Murder Most Foul’ is Bob Dylan’s longest song
In 2020, Dylan released his 39th album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. The album’s longest song — and the longest of his career — was “Murder Most Foul.” The nearly 17-minute song is about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“‘Twas a dark day in Dallas, November’ 63/ A day that will live on in infamy/ President Kennedy was a-ridin’ high/ Good day to be livin’ and a good day to die/ Being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb/ He said, ‘Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?'...
- 6/12/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In 1966, news broke that Bob Dylan had been badly injured in a motorcycle accident, but nobody seemed to know the details. Nearly 60 years later, details about the accident are still muddy. Dylan hasn’t spoken much about it, but others have divided themselves into two camps. Some say the accident left the musician with serious injuries, while others doubt it ever happened. According to Dylan biographer Daniel Mark Epstein, the musician did have an accident, but not in the way people might think.
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Bob Dylan hurt himself in a motorcycle accident
In 1966, Dylan retreated from public life after a motorcycle accident. Details about his injuries were few and far between, but, according to Epstein, the accident was nowhere as severe as people thought.
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
“There was a motorcycle, and there was a very weary, clumsy poet who wanted to ride on it,...
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Bob Dylan hurt himself in a motorcycle accident
In 1966, Dylan retreated from public life after a motorcycle accident. Details about his injuries were few and far between, but, according to Epstein, the accident was nowhere as severe as people thought.
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
“There was a motorcycle, and there was a very weary, clumsy poet who wanted to ride on it,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Bob Dylan published his memoir Chronicles: Volume One in 2004, many experts on the musician noted that he lied his way through the book. This wasn’t necessarily surprising to them, though. Since he became a public figure, Dylan has told a number of fictions and half-truths about himself. While this might be damaging to another celebrity, it fits the image Dylan has crafted for himself.
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Some suspect that Bob Dylan included a number of lies in his memoir
In interviews and his memoir, Dylan has told stories about running away from home as a child, losing contact with his parents, joining the circus, and more. Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin said that entire sections of Dylan’s memoir were essentially fiction.
“Jesus Christ, as far as I can tell almost everything in the Oh Mercy section of Chronicles is a work of fiction,...
Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Some suspect that Bob Dylan included a number of lies in his memoir
In interviews and his memoir, Dylan has told stories about running away from home as a child, losing contact with his parents, joining the circus, and more. Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin said that entire sections of Dylan’s memoir were essentially fiction.
“Jesus Christ, as far as I can tell almost everything in the Oh Mercy section of Chronicles is a work of fiction,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan grew up with his parents and brother in Minnesota, but he once told a blatant lie about his upbringing. Some suspect that lying about his past is a pattern for the musician, but he got caught in a lie about his family life. A reporter made the relatively easy discovery, and Dylan was humiliated.
Bob Dylan | William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images The musician grew up in Minnesota
Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941.
A Bob Dylan super-fan has purchased the ultimate rock collectible: the Hibbing, Minnesota house where Dylan lived from 1948 to 1959 https://t.co/1XxpDyMoTX pic.twitter.com/14y6dAGeW8
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 12, 2019
“Minnesota has its own Mason Dixon line,” Dylan said in an interview on his official website. “I come from the north and that’s different from southern Minnesota; if you’re there you could be in Iowa or Georgia. Up north the...
Bob Dylan | William Lovelace/Express/Getty Images The musician grew up in Minnesota
Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1941.
A Bob Dylan super-fan has purchased the ultimate rock collectible: the Hibbing, Minnesota house where Dylan lived from 1948 to 1959 https://t.co/1XxpDyMoTX pic.twitter.com/14y6dAGeW8
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 12, 2019
“Minnesota has its own Mason Dixon line,” Dylan said in an interview on his official website. “I come from the north and that’s different from southern Minnesota; if you’re there you could be in Iowa or Georgia. Up north the...
- 2/5/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Farewell to Tom Verlaine, for some of us the greatest American rock guitarist not named “Hendrix.” Verlaine, who died Saturday at 73, could hit cosmic heights that no other guitar virtuoso could reach. He made his bones in the 1970s with Television, the garage band who created a new kind of psychedelic sublime in the Cbgb punk scene. Television made two of the Seventies’ best guitar albums, Marquee Moon and Adventure, until they fell apart, just as they were hitting their musical peak. But the music Verlaine got out of his...
- 1/29/2023
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this week, a Greenwich, Connecticut woman sued Bob Dylan, claiming that he sexually abused her over a six-week period at New York’s Chelsea Hotel in 1965 when she was 12 years old. She is identified only as “J.C.” in papers filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
“Between April and May of 1965 the defendant, Dylan, exploited his status as a musician by grooming J.C. to gain her trust,” reads the suit, “and obtain control over her as a part of his plan to sexually molest and abuse J.
“Between April and May of 1965 the defendant, Dylan, exploited his status as a musician by grooming J.C. to gain her trust,” reads the suit, “and obtain control over her as a part of his plan to sexually molest and abuse J.
- 8/19/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. “The whole year was fascinating in terms of the shifts and changes that he went through.”
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
Some fans may be surprised to hear this opinion, as it was a somewhat of a lost era for Dylan. In 1995, it had been five years...
- 6/11/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Clinton Heylin has written eight books about Bob Dylan during the past 30 years, including the acclaimed 1991 biography Behind the Shades (which he updated in 2001 and 2011), making it seem unlikely he’d ever have anything new to say on the subject. But then the news hit in 2016 that Dylan had unloaded a 6,000-piece collection of lyric manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, letters, and audio and video materials to the George Kaiser Family Foundation, most of it never before seen by the public.
The materials are housed at a research facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The materials are housed at a research facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- 5/11/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
All but one of the tracks on Bob Dylan’s new album Together Through Life are co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. It’s the most help he’s ever had on a single album, but hardly the first time Dylan has written with a partner. Over the past 45 years he’s shared credit with Tom Petty, Rick Danko, Sam Shepard, Carole Bayer Sager and even Gene Simmons and Michael Bolton. Here are the stories behind five of those collaborations.
“Hurricane” (with Jacques Levy)
Dylan teamed up with New...
“Hurricane” (with Jacques Levy)
Dylan teamed up with New...
- 10/23/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Buzzcocks will reissue the 12 singles the pioneering punk band released for United Artists between 1977 and 1980 in a new 7-inch vinyl box set.
Each single in the 12-record set — due out January 15th, 2021 via Domino — is remastered from the tracks’ original tapes and recreates the original Malcolm Garrett-designed sleeve. The singles box set, which also includes a 36-page booklet written by author Clinton Heylin, is available to preorder now.
The set spans from their first release under United Artists, 1977’s “Orgasm Addict”/”Whatever Happened Too…?” to their three-part 1980 singles...
Each single in the 12-record set — due out January 15th, 2021 via Domino — is remastered from the tracks’ original tapes and recreates the original Malcolm Garrett-designed sleeve. The singles box set, which also includes a 36-page booklet written by author Clinton Heylin, is available to preorder now.
The set spans from their first release under United Artists, 1977’s “Orgasm Addict”/”Whatever Happened Too…?” to their three-part 1980 singles...
- 10/22/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks came in at number nine. The following piece was originally published in a Dylan special issue in 2015.
In the spring of 1974, Dylan returned to Carnegie Hall, where he’d first played a small recital hall in 1961, just days after signing with Columbia. But it wasn’t music that brought him there.
In the spring of 1974, Dylan returned to Carnegie Hall, where he’d first played a small recital hall in 1961, just days after signing with Columbia. But it wasn’t music that brought him there.
- 10/2/2020
- by Joe Levy
- Rollingstone.com
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