Sunday Under Covers with Joan Baez
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This is a Bob Dylan song.
Bob himself has never recorded it. Joan appropriated it while it was still a work in progress circa 1965.
She tells the story that when Bob heard her version on the radio he commented, "Hey that's a great song", apparently having completely forgotten that it was he himself who had written it.
A plea - somewhere in the deepest recesses of 400 unsorted and uncatalogued tape cassettes, I have a version of Joan singing this, and when she gets to the lyrics, "My experience was limited and underfed" etc she sings it in the most accurate Dylan pastiche ever recorded - it is truly wonderful, but I know I will never find it - if anyone has it handy can they please post it and make an old man very happy.
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Comments (4)
Would but I can't. This remarkable lyric reaches some brutally honest insights.
She does it in "Don't Look Back,'' too. You're probably better off without the one where she does her Bobby D imitation - she's done it too many times, and it's kind of a shtick at this point. Great song, though.
It's on an album "Earl Scrugg and friends" (I have the album) and, as was posted before, it's on the DVD. I've never seen a CD yet. You might find a version if you do a search on YouTube. There's a lot of Joan Baez, including a superb rendition of 4-Letter Word recorded on Nashville City Limits in the late 90s.
What a lovely memory this song brings back...It was a ( or seemed) simpler time, this is a song from the soundtrack of my life...thanks.