Links to Song:
Original recording for Highways 61 Revisited (1965) – http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Tombstone+Blues/4kZbsD?src=5
Later recording with the Chambers Brothers for The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 – http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Tombstone+Blues+Alternate+Ta/3hcPLk?src=5
What you should know about this song: This song was originally recorded in 1965 as an “urban” blues song, but was later recorded with vocal support from R&B group, the Chambers Brothers. The two versions are quite different, but enjoyable nonetheless.
“Dylan’s Woody Guthrie period was very nice and I liked him then, but he had a second wave of popularity when he became more psychedelic… and at that time John [Lennon] particularly became very enamored width him because of his poetry. All those songs were great lyrically.” – Paul McCartney*
Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Photo Source: Don Hunstein
