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Rolling Stone magazine ranked "I Shall Be Released" 6th on a list of the "100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs". An article accompanying the list calls it a "simple, evocative tale of a prisoner yearning for freedom" and a "rock hymn [that] was part of a conscious effort by Dylan to move away from the sprawling imagery of his mid-Sixties masterpieces".
"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (Take 2 – Originally released with overdubs in 1975 on The Basement Tapes; Included on The Basement Tapes Raw) 2:46: 19. "I Shall Be Released" (Take 1) 4:04: 20. "I Shall Be Released" (Take 2 – Originally released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 1–3; Included on The Basement Tapes Raw) 3:58: 21.
Recordings of the country ballad "Long Black Veil" and Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and the Danko–Dylan collaboration "This Wheel's on Fire" rounded out the album. Music from Big Pink was released with the group name given as simply "The Band." This would be their name for the rest of the group's existence.
The first song Dylan released as an evangelical Christian, “Gotta Serve Somebody,” was an unqualified success, a Top 40 hit that won a Grammy. ... The lyrics brim over with characters ...
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 ...
On September 24, 1971, Dylan re-recorded three Basement Tapes-era songs for inclusion on this compilation—"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", "I Shall Be Released", and "Down in the Flood"—with Happy Traum playing bass, banjo, and electric guitar, as well as providing a vocal harmony. [15]
"I Shall Be Free" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on 6 December 1962 at Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York, produced by John Hammond. The song was released as the closing track on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan on 27 May 1963, and has been viewed as a comedic counterpoint to the album's more serious ...
"I Shall Be Free No. 10" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the fifth track on his fourth studio album Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Tom Wilson. The song is a humorous talking blues, indebted to earlier songs including Lead Belly's "We Shall Be Free".