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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Girl From The North Country

Bob Dylan : Nashville Skyline


Bruce celebrated Bob Dylan's birthday this past week with a covers post, and since we'll be making this a weekly feature, I thought it fitting to celebrate Bob's birthday this week too (it was last week, he turned 65). "The Girl From The North Counrty" first appeared on Bob Dylan's 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, but was probably overshadowed by Dylan greats like ""Blowin' in the Wind" and "Corina, Corina" and the politically charged "Masters Of War".

Bob released Nashville Skyline, his shortest album, in 1969. It was a decided jump into the country music genre and wasn't met with a lot of love from the music critics of that time. But like many of us still say today, what do critics know? It reached #3 in the US, the album also scored Dylan his 4th UK #1 album. Bob, with friend Johnny Cash, revisited the song at this time.

The songs on Nashville Skyline were very relaxed with modest ambitions, something reflected in the studio work ethic. "We just take a song, I play it and everyone else just sort of fills in behind it," Dylan recalls. "At the same time you're doing that, there's someone in the control booth who's turning all those dials to where the proper sound is coming in."

Dylan was also singing with a soft, smooth, country-tinged croon, and many listeners would be startled by this 'new' voice. Dylan credited it with a break from cigarettes, but a number of friends and family members were able to draw a connection with his 'new' voice and the one he used to use when he played at the Ten O' Clock Scholar in New York City and the Purple Onion coffee shop in Minneapolis during the winter and spring of 1960.
- Wiki

During the recording session, Cash, who was recording with his band next door, often stopped by to visit. A friend and label-mate of Dylan's as well as an early supporter of his music, the two wound up recording a series of duets. They recorded two days worth of songs, but most were met with little enthusiasm. "Girl From The North Country" (which originally appeared on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) ended up as the album's opener.

NPR's Tim Riley describes "Girl from the North Country" as "an absence-makes-the-heart-grow-confused song, but it's suffused with a rueful itch, as though Dylan is singing about someone he may never see again."

Bob Dylan - The Girl From The North Country (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan version)
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash- Girl From The North Country (Nasville Skyline version)
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country (Live from a May 1969 Cash show)

Jim James, M. Ward & Conor Oberst - Girl From The North Country
Secret Machines - Girl From The North Country
Robert Plant - Girl From The North Country (Strange Sessions Version)
Rod Stewart - Girl From The North Country
Eels - Girl From The North Country (KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic)
Eels - Girl From The North Country
Leo Kottke - Girl From The North Country
Counting Crows - Girl From The North Counrty (Live from Shim Sham 2003)
Pete Townshend - North Country Girl (80s-out version of Girl From The North Country) Thanks fo Phil C. - he's sent in quite a few covers since this project started, ended and then became weekly.
Dear Nora - Girl From The North Country
The Black Crowes - Girl From The North Country (Live)
Sam Bush - Girl From The North Country
Waterboys - Girl From The North Country
Francis Cabrel & Jean Jacques Goldman - La Fille Du Nord (Girl From The North Country)

As usual, if you have any versions of this song not included, please send them in and I'll post them up! I know there is a Johnny Cash/Joni Mitchell version out there somewhere.


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At 8:18 AM, Anonymous Sean spat...

Sending you a live Dylan/Cash version!

 
At 9:32 AM, Anonymous brian spat...

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At 12:50 PM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

here is dear nora's cover.

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At 5:58 PM, Anonymous Rob W spat...

How do I send them in? What format do you want? Because I've got a great Link Wray version.

 
At 5:59 PM, Blogger Patrick spat...

Pete Townshend retitled it "North Country Girl" for his All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes. That version is, well, dated, to be kind. However, his version of the same song, on his "Live: A Benefit For Maryville Academy" is absolutely gorgeous, and not to be missed.

 
At 6:15 PM, Blogger Celesté spat...

Sending you The Black Crowes' cover from the Henry Fonda theater! Love it.bd

 
At 8:19 PM, Blogger Dodge spat...

thanks guys and gals! rob, you can send them to my gmail:

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mp3 format is preferred.

 
At 11:35 PM, Blogger Bruce spat...

Now, this is a "Bobfest" - I love it. Thanks for the shout out!

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i know at least two version

one is by Hugues Aufray who has translate a lot of dylan's song

the second is by Francis Cabrel & Jean jacques Goldman. This version is really good.

And Francis Cabrel has cover "shelter from the storm" in his last record
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At 8:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

Check out Douglas September's version from his album Oil Tan Bow. Don't know how to describe it. Morning-after-and-smelling-of-whiskey maybe?

 
At 3:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

Finn Kalvik did a version in Norwegian called "Hvis du reiser nordover i år" (If you're travelling up north this year) on the album "Nøkkelen ligger under matta" (The key's under the mat). Polydor LP 2382043.

 
At 6:59 PM, Anonymous Kyle spat...

Sending you a live version by Colin Best from Academy of Chess and Checkers; it's a personal favorite.

 
At 7:25 PM, Blogger curiostrip spat...

I don't have it but there's a fine Joe Cocker/Leon Russell from "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"

 
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There is a bluegrass version by the Country Gentlemen. I'll get it when I upack my POD.

 
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At 4:33 PM, Blogger Kitty Laverne spat...

Bob and Johnny sound so whacked out on that overrated album, it's embarassing to listen. Guess it's too late to hope this song, and Nashville Skyline, would just go away.

 
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did the grateful dead ever do a cover of this one?

 
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At 1:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

I have been trying to find the Dylan/Cash version of Girl from the North Country forever. Thank you

 
At 4:31 PM, Anonymous Dan Aloi spat...

hmmm... the one I'd REALLY like to find is the Link Wray cover.

 
At 2:49 PM, Blogger gimplonius spat...

I'll try to send in a very nice Bruce Hornsby version from the Live from the Mountain Stage show...

 
At 9:40 PM, Anonymous Anonymous spat...

Hi,
this is a live cover version by Josh Ritter. he was a guest on Germany radio station Radio1 in January and used this song as an example of his early connection to the guitar and music. He just burst into it during the interview spontaneously.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3OSPRKOB

 
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This is awesome...did you ever get the Link Wray version? I have bneen dying to find that.

 
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Howard Tate on Atlantic. Self titled LP. Don't know if it ever made it to CD. Great version.

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It's not literally a cover, but has anyone ever noticed the lyrical similarities between "Girl From the North Country" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair"?

 
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