Links to Song:

Joan Baez Cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkx-elBdKi4

Phoenix Cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-bvmWmpBdM

What you should know about this song: When this song was released on Blonde on Blonde, it became the first single track in rock history to fill an entire side of an album.  The band wrote it while the were waiting for a studio session to begin, and it wasn’t until they were done recording that any of them realized the song was more than 12 minutes long.

“It was a first take. Not knowing how long this thing was going to be, we were preparing ourselves for a basic two-to-three-minute record. After about ten minutes of this thing, we were cracking up at each other. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago! Where do we go from here?” – Kenny Buttrey, drummer on Blonde on Blonde

*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications

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Bob Dylan, mock Olympic tryouts, curling, Liverpool, England, 1966.
Photo Source: Barry Feinstein