This song debuted in 1964 highlighting issues like: abandonment, alcoholism, broken marriage, unemployment, foreign competition, rural flight, isolation and loneliness. All in a 4 minute song written in the female voice by a 22-year old male. This is more than a song, it is a work of art.
Dear Colin Sweden , not to be nasty but Dylan was not talented nor a roll model for the young. In other words he was just a pot smocking drop kick no talent
1st time I saw Bob...Joan Baez brought him ...Newport '63...I was 14...took a bus to get there...too young to drive !! I think it was the best time of my life.
cruyff? Wtf!? There was Pelé! R9... Michael Jordan,.... Buckethead! Jimmy and Beck! ... Bonham .... Hendrix! Cruyff ...? Pff. Zidane! Ronaldinho! Messi... Sean Connery....Nina Simone! Christopher Lee....:) l respectfully pee on your cruyff , sir! Cheers!
Thanks for the link miagarcia 1488 very kind of you. Have You seen The Other Side Of The Mirror. I have it on dvd. It's Dylan playing Newport Festival from 1963-'65. It has this North Country Blues on it. I just love that line it just gets me every time i listen to it. Once again thank you very much for your post. Take Care.
Bod Dylan is a part of the fabric of my life. I discovered him in 1966 when I was in the Army. A buddy would play Bob's albums in the Barracks and educated me to his music.
That was my experience too, in the Canadian Army in the mid-sixties. One of my barracks buddies, Graham Brooks, used to go around singing Queen Jane Approximately, and other songs from Highway 61 Revisited.
Clarence Ashley handed him the pick! I have a better video of this that shows someone else, can’t remember who (Pete S maybe), I’ll have to pull up mine and re-watch it.
@@bruceringrose7539 Bob asks him for the pic butI can't tell if he says his name. I really want to know now. You may very well be right about that being Pete.
I'm sorry to say..The first time I ever saw him up close and he looked right at me, he was a ghost. And I've tried to derail that thought but its the truth. Happy BDay Bob.
This performance is mesmerizing. I just can't imagine being there live and feeling this first hand. When I watch the people behind him I can feel the weight of what this performance means. Heavy...
I love this version & Dylan being so young & Judy Collins behind hum looked at him with awe & the guy he borrowed the pick from seemed to change his jokey attitude to admiration. Edit: thank you March 1, 2022🥀🥀🍒.
Let us all remember: this is late summer Newport. Men in short sleeve shirts: so/ AUGUST ‘63. SO… John Kennedy is going to have his brain smeared across his wife in 70 days. J D Tippett is going to be murdered, Oswald is going to be murdered, Jack Ruby- murdered; Morgenschild murdered, and then the list of women: ….. learn the women’s names. Let their names and the lives break your heart.
this brings me back to when i was at my happiest.People lived with such passion. the future was bright. we helped, cared about and loved each other. Anyone who lived through the 50's, 60's and 70's should feel blessed and lucky to have been part of it.
Everyone who lived then should also have a lot of modesty, because you people ruined the planet and screwed over all generations that came after in multiple ways.
Look up his performance of 'Only A Pawn In Their Game' in Greenwood, Missisippi. You can clearly see the black people in the fields listening to him getting in awe thinking "he knows how we feel"
@@bobsmith-ji2uh perhaps both lol but yeah it was a big deal back then, Sam Cooke got astonished when he listened Blowin' In The Wind for the first time and learned a white person wrote it. Which inspired him to write A Change Is Gonna Come
jon morgan, exactly! And to think Dylan only got Bs in his school in Hibbing, whereas people like Ted Cruz (cum laude at Princeton) or Josh Hawley (phi beta kappa at Standford) are seen as the educated ones. America has an education system, but it's hard to say what it measures. It certainly doesn't measure empathy.
Yeah I read in a biography Woody was a big influence on him early on. Listen to the depth of concern that generation had at such a young age. I have heard 30 year olds now who sound about as mature as 15 just want the latest video game and he's 22 there sounds like he's a grandfather. Been orphaned in some mining town got a bunch of mouths to feed etc.
A lot of this stuff is symbolic . When Biden was sworn in , one singer ( Jennifer Lopez ) sang THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND . This subtle song was written as part of a government program called the WPA . In a time of poverty , Franklin Roosevelt paid unemployed Americans to build roads , but also write songs , if they were musicians . Woody Guthrie wrote this " socialistic " song for pay , when his family was hungry - or almost there . The Democrats were saying to the world , " call us names if you wish , but we come from a deep tradition , of Americans caring for one another , in hard times ,and we are NOT ashamed of that ! " Dylan's favorite book was Guthrie's autobiography . He met the aging Guthrie , and sang to him . Check out the song NORTH COUNTRY BLUES by Dylan . Starving miners . Rich , distant mine owners . The haves and have nots . Pure Woody Guthrie , in a modern song . In one of her poems , the bank robber , BONNIE PARKER , mentions the WPA program in a wry joke . This is Americana , and it runs deep .
ive read 8 biographies about him. youre wrong. dylan has admitted that he just played what he thought would bring him success. hes said this himself. you can put him on a pedestal but in reality he was just trying to make things stick and folk happened to be his first vehicle for that. he was a big fan of woody and he imitated him alot. this takes nothing away from the music for me. in alot of ways he wasnt a genius but knew how to use imitation and sometimes copy what he like. (copying melodies or songs in folk is not disrespectful and its pretty common) alot about him was purposefully artificial
@@5h1f7 Dylan wanted to make a career of doing Gunthrie songs In bars and coffee shops but there were too many impostors already doing it so he sang whatever until Joan Baez made his career.
everybody thinks dylan couldn't sing - i've said it before - he could sing as well as John Denver, essentially perfect pitch, just different intonation
It's absolutely incredible, seriously incredible, that a 22 year old from Minnesota could write this, and also perform it like this. The poise, the timing, the vocalising . . . not to mention the writing. WTF? Where did this even come from?
Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan; He grew up in HIBBING MN.,all of the men worked the Iron Oar Mines that's all they knew, his Family own a Cleaners. They were Jewish. He got out of that Town and so did my Father but by WWII, my Father return a couple of times per. year. All the men would be sitting in the same Bar's surrounded this Town drinking, we would stop in the same men would be sitting at the same seats telling the same stories year after year. That's all they knew is was their Father's did to their Grandfather's did. It was sad but as I know they all died and very few moved on. It was once the Richest to the Rags now not as bad in parts their Highschool there in that Town was nicer then the White House, even had a indoor pool. So glad my Family was from there, a Town but with Strong Immigrants and PROUD.
I heard Dylan say in an interview that when he started playing music he really just did it to get girls. He wanted to be like Elvis, not to sound like him but to change music in a very profound way. Which he did. Eddie Murphy's big dream was also to be Elvis. In the comedy world. Which he was. The Beatles also wanted to be like Elvis. Not to imitate but to have a tremendous influence. Which they did. We can all agree on that.
I'm 71 and an Indian. Even Bob may not have thought that this piece was in spirit relevant for all countries for all time. Perhaps one of his best socially relevant writings.
Everything from borrowing a pick from someone behind him to watching everyone's face go from smiles and laughing to "oh shit ,I'm witnessing something special right now."
I was Listening to a lot of heavy metal in my early teens.(1980's 90's) Then I heard this..... It was The Hardest Darkest and heaviest Sound I had ever felt... It made me feel Sick and Scared and Changed my Life...30 years later... Still Writing songs and Listening to this Pied piper
@@wendyjohansen6174 annoyed at him or the story line or just the endless struggle of human life regardless the decade, century, millennia? Curious and respect your freedom to express a view and expand upon it. Have a fantastic week.
Having grown up in Hibbing, Minnesota I left and never looked back. Mom and sis still there and it’s my roots but in my time his story is just the same: Nothing there to hold me.
Back in 1966 I was a freshman in highschool here in Vermont and our pretty little English Teacher had us do several weeks of studying Bob Dylan's music as poetry. We absolutely loved her for that and I have never forgoten Miss. White and her wisdom in doing that. She had us completely into Englsih class and thank you Bob Dylan. I still love his music. (And play it on my guitar!)
Dylan went from performing in coffee houses and folk festivals to releasing 40 studio albums, 102 singles, 24 notable extended plays, 61 music videos and 16 live albums. Not to mention winning an Oscar for best song. He currently has a net worth of over five hundred million dollars.
Don't forget a Nobel Prize. How many Jewish kids from northern Minnesota have a Nobel for literature? Heck how many small town kids from anywhere have one? A genius of word and song.
What I love so much about this song, is that it summons up memories from the subconscious minds of its listeners. The experiences and memories he sings of, are all held within almost every American spirit. Because they heard the stories told to them by their parents, who were in turn told the same stories by their parents. And that is why if you look into the faces of the listeners, there is something more going on there than just listening. They are actually imagining themselves going through those same things in another life. So naturally these images that Bob calls up by his voice, which is tailored perfectly to sing of such things, can be easily related to, and thus the song really hits home for those who listen because being Americans, they can relate to another generation of American's struggles. The two people who capture what I'm talking about best are the one lovely girl who sits behind Bob, with her face resting on her arms. And the older gentleman sitting directly behind him. Look at the girl, it's almost as if she is picturing herself running around, trying to take care of three kids, see to her older brother's meals, and fill up his bath water. Fixing his lunch pail, and just taking on the role of the loving, dutiful younger sister whose life is bound up in work. It almost looks like she was made for the role. She has like a hard, face with a realistic expression. Like she knows exactly the kind of life Bob sings about. It's the same with that older, short dark-haired man right behind him. He has the look for someone who might be the older patriarch of some family clan. And as Bob sings, his mind drifts back to those years where maybe he either played such a role, or knew someone who did. For if you catch his eyes, they are looking down, as if the memories of that life either real or imagined, has seized ahold of his mind. So that he too is able to picture coming home at the end of a long day shift. Scrubbing off the grit and the grime and such. It's a really unique feeling you get from watching and listening to this video.
@@maxwellgilbert7138 Thanks for that my friend. So pleased you enjoyed. I did not know that man was blind or connected with Blue Grass. I love that music. Even tho i do not buy any of it, as i don't buy any music. I always love listening to it whenever and wherever i hear it. It's uniquely American.
Lyrics... Come gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale Of when the red iron pits ran a-plenty But the cardboard-filled windows and old men on the benches Tell you now that the whole town is empty In the north end of town my own children are grown But I was raised on the other In the wee hours of youth my mother took sick And I was brought up by my brother The iron ore poured as the years passed the door The drag lines an' the shovels they was a-humming 'Till one day my brother failed to come home The same as my father before him Well, a long winter's wait from the window I watched My friends they couldn't have been kinder And my schooling was cut as I quit in the spring To marry John Thomas, a miner Oh, the years passed again, and the giving was good With the lunch bucket filled every season What with three babies born, the work was cut down To a half a day's shift with no reason Then the shaft was soon shut, and more work was cut And the fire in the air, it felt frozen 'Till a man come to speak, and he said in one week That number eleven was closing They complained in the East, they are paying too high They say that your ore ain't worth digging That it's much cheaper down in the South American towns Where the miners work almost for nothing So the mining gates locked, and the red iron rotted And the room smelled heavy from drinking Where the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long As I waited for the sun to go sinking I lived by the window as he talked to himself This silence of tongues it was building 'Till one morning's wake, the bed it was bare And I was left alone with three children The summer is gone, the ground's turning cold The stores one by one they're all folding My children will go as soon as they grow Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them
I think he says the stars one by one are folding..not stores But I could be wrong. For 57 years I been hearing stars...I'll have to listen again Thank you for taking the time to type this in entirety 🥀
Also I think (2:44) "They Say in the East, they are paying too high. then (3:13) "And the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long". How does such a long song seem so short?
Nothing simple about him. Unless you’re simple. The man is a mirror. This song reflected decades of middle class nightmares. Who are you my friend? Are you simple?
And there behind Bob, so young, singing this heartrending song of mining, family life, death, and poverty, the gorgeous Judy Collins, already famous and bringing his music to the world with her soaring voice.
Yes, she looks on mesmorised, thinking ok, I’ve got a pretty voice but this guy’s poetry will last forever! He wouldn’t have paid her much attention since he was there in the company of one Joan Baez. Either immediately before or after this song they did another of his together: ruclips.net/video/a3UXYJzelk4/видео.html&ab_channel=LeviWeiss
the magnitude of this boys poetic intelligence. to tell a tale like that at his age shows such keen and discerning observation of the lives of people lived. to convey such tragic emotion and specific hardship for a fictional character is just incredible. musical giant
An incredible story, and he makes it seem so easy, but this guy has the perception of a man at the end of his life, when he's just a raw-boned kid. This is a magnificent piece of writing that is deceptively simple.
I think many of the the people sitting around listening suddenly realized that a page of history was turning while he sang that song. Doc Watson knew for sure.
Most of us in Nothern Minnesota and Wisconsin are only a couple generations away from immigrants. Life was not easy for our grandparents. This song captures that.
Oddly enough ..Being the same age as Bob ..I happened to have been in Hibbing when Bob still lived there.. Masabi iron range ..open pit mine ...red dust town .. Made an unforgetable mark in my mind ...~~~
Oddly enough ..I too was in Hibbing .. and was also the one who wrote the above ..Bob and Hibbing are still on my mind ..Just like him to know his writing inspired me to write also ..impressions of a red dust town ...~~~
with likes from 80's thrash/death metal to other alternatives genres, man, i just luv Dylan! i could go from listening Morbid Angel to Dylan in a sec! and I luv even more the "acoustic" albums! what a writer, performer, artist... (no wonder about the Nobel)... the lyrics, the melody, his voice, his poetry, metaphors, hidden messages! he sings about life as hard as it could be, like in this song... see the people around him, quiet, listening to him... man, one just gotta luv Dylan!
It's true. Here was the original Bob Dylan, singing folk music pure and from the heart. Despite all his brilliance through the years and through exploring and mixing different genres of music, somehow his early folk music remains his most iconic, and may even be, dare I say, his most brilliant and pure compositions. Way, way back, when I first discovered Dylan, it was through a tape recording of his early greatest hits. This song was on it and it struck the deepest chord of all the songs on the tape. Eventually I lost the tape and could not find this song for ages, and I missed it so much, until the internet and RUclips came along. It remains one of my all time favourites of his to this day. He sang it here at Newport in 1963 before he even released it on his third album, which came out in 1964. Amazing. And ti think that in 1963 he was juuuuust appearing on the scene, after his second album which had just given him a name. The guys around him were watching music history in the making. How cool is that? And how insightful of Pete Seeger to get him to the festival.
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This song debuted in 1964 highlighting issues like: abandonment, alcoholism, broken marriage, unemployment, foreign competition, rural flight, isolation and loneliness. All in a 4 minute song written in the female voice by a 22-year old male. This is more than a song, it is a work of art.
Very good call on that.
I grew up in the town he did. Been on the iron range my whole life. That pretty much sums it up.
Sounds like Minneapolis now
Sounds like america today!
Thanx unkel obiden....
Very true that is.
He’ll be 80 this coming May, be grateful that he was around in our lifetime
AMEN!!!!!!!
That I was around in his.
Dear Colin Sweden , not to be nasty but Dylan was not talented nor a roll model for the young. In other words he was just a pot smocking drop kick no talent
@@michaelfitzgerald3200 your an ignorant dickhead.
David
💯 🍻
he was 22 when this was recorded. just stunning. old soul.
Yes, I think it’s safe to say he’s been around and around the mulberry bush before, probably dozens of times.
Good way to put it
He looks about 14.
Wrote alot also recovering from an accident 💯🎶💕
Thanks for doing what the OP couldn't find the inner fortitude to do thyself, and let us know the obvious fucking question of this post
Love how the older guys behind stare in awe of this young pup … legend
Wonder what that guy thought of his pick producing that sound and song
@@northscrow9316 I think I recognize Doc Watson there at 1:00.
@@tombryant52jumpscoach good eye
@@Adam-ud8ck and then bob keeps the pick and walks off
@@tombryant52jumpscoach As well as Hobart Smith and Judy Collins
When the Truth of our lives lie broken at our feet our children will mold them into the promises we once hoped were real.
imagine that today, no phones just sitting listening to the greatest songwriter ever ...
You have to remember, he was a great mimic, ask anyone from the Village days, surely you've heard his Guthrie,
@@johnhulsker9123 Woody wrote his lyrics??? and you don't think Woody had a role model??? an idol??? Hello
Sorry, he was good ,but Lightfoot is better by far.
Sorry big mon, Lennon/McCartney are the greatest ever.
Yes
1st time I saw Bob...Joan Baez brought him ...Newport '63...I was 14...took a bus to get there...too young to drive !!
I think it was the best time of my life.
('64 & '65 too)
**To add....many times after this too...including Rolling Thunder...Bob just keeps evolving. God Bless him.
I feel blessed...I have been living in the same age as Bob Dylan, Muhammed Ali, Johan Cruyff and The Beatles. Thanks God.
You forgot the Stones, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Sandy Koufax.
cruyff? Wtf!? There was Pelé! R9... Michael Jordan,.... Buckethead! Jimmy and Beck! ... Bonham .... Hendrix!
Cruyff ...? Pff. Zidane! Ronaldinho! Messi...
Sean Connery....Nina Simone! Christopher Lee....:) l respectfully pee on your cruyff , sir!
Cheers!
You missed Martha Hook and Bud Moore, the Montana one.
Same here
@@RobertoGaspar69 WTF, there's been Abby dingleton.... Rigobarto Nicholas, Yuko Liponikamento!!!?!?
I disrespectfully took a dump on Péle
'The sad silent song made the hour twice as long'
What a killer line
Incredible talent in words
3:13
Thanks for the link miagarcia 1488 very kind of you. Have You seen The Other Side Of The Mirror. I have it on dvd. It's Dylan playing Newport Festival from 1963-'65. It has this North Country Blues on it.
I just love that line it just gets me every time i listen to it. Once again thank you very much for your post. Take Care.
It comes from inside...and it hit's different! Outstanding Performance!
@@mattenflogel1781 I haven't got a clue what you're talking about, but i agree it is a totally outstanding performance. 1 of so many. 👍
Bod Dylan is a part of the fabric of my life. I discovered him in 1966 when I was in the Army. A buddy would play Bob's albums in the Barracks and educated me to his music.
I had a couple Dave Van Ronk records I would play at a high volume and would have this one guy in the barracks yell, " turn that shit DOWN"!!
That was my experience too, in the Canadian Army in the mid-sixties. One of my barracks buddies, Graham Brooks, used to go around singing Queen Jane Approximately, and other songs from Highway 61 Revisited.
First few lines have more soul than anything I’ve heard in popular music in the last 20 years put together. True genius of a man.
He lived down the street from my grandparents' home in Hibbing. Saw him running around town. A good boy.
I read your words as if Bob was singing them.🙂
✨️Same story but a farm in Hibbing. MN. In my soul.🥹🥹
Clarence Ashley over one shoulder and Doc Watson over the other, what a time to be alive
I was going to post that - "gee that looks like Doc Watson."
Ya you can c how all of them were mesmerized by Bob!!!
And Judy Collins behind him
@@scottk895 I thought that was her.
60 years ago today- and the legend is still touring. Just saw him in concert a few days ago
Sixty years, and we're still watching the Appalachians rot from neglect.
What a beautiful back drop for this song - Doc Watson, bowed head, listening.
And Judy Collins behind him😁
Clarence Ashley handed him the pick! I have a better video of this that shows someone else, can’t remember who (Pete S maybe), I’ll have to pull up mine and re-watch it.
like a prayer 🙏
@@bruceringrose7539 Bob asks him for the pic butI can't tell if he says his name. I really want to know now. You may very well be right about that being Pete.
Yeah, wow. Legends.
Dylan was and probably still is a conduit for a spirit that is ageless, timeless, ancient and eternal.
Joe Riverman I think so, too. I’m glad to be on the planet at the same time as he, though. Dylan is our American poet.
As he is a Christian, it is the Holy Spirit of the Living God in Dylan that you have identified.
@@buckyoung4578 God and spirit is above religion. Christianity and all religions are psyops.
I'm sorry to say..The first time I ever saw him up close and he looked right at me, he was a ghost. And I've tried to derail that thought but its the truth. Happy BDay Bob.
That's a damn good guess friend!
I first experienced Bob Dylan at the "Bitter End" NYC in 1963. I am 70 years old and cannot not imagine living with out his music.
Did your parents take you?
That’s pretty cool but how did you get into the Bitter End at 10 years old?
I dont see any artist ever touching his genius. One of a kind
You obviously haven’t heard of The Misfits.
@@ChrisHDolemite ok bro
@@ChrisHDolemitewho? 😊
John Prine came within spitting distance.
@@squeakeththewheel love john but, nooooo
This performance is mesmerizing. I just can't imagine being there live and feeling this first hand. When I watch the people behind him I can feel the weight of what this performance means. Heavy...
I love this version & Dylan being so young & Judy Collins behind hum looked at him with awe & the guy he borrowed the pick from seemed to change his jokey attitude to admiration.
Edit: thank you March 1, 2022🥀🥀🍒.
Let us all remember: this is late summer Newport. Men in short sleeve shirts: so/ AUGUST ‘63. SO… John Kennedy is going to have his brain smeared across his wife in 70 days. J D Tippett is going to be murdered, Oswald is going to be murdered, Jack Ruby- murdered; Morgenschild murdered, and then the list of women: ….. learn the women’s names. Let their names and the lives break your heart.
This is someone taking their chance ,knowing and believing they have talent
He must have been 22 but, goodness, he looks like a youngster and yet his stories and his lyrics belie his youth. Just amazing creative talent.
inspirational
I know Bob's voice was never really the point...but I don't think his singing voice ever got better than this! (tongue in cheek)
this brings me back to when i was at my happiest.People lived with such passion. the future was bright. we helped, cared about and loved each other. Anyone who lived through the 50's, 60's and 70's should feel blessed and lucky to have been part of it.
True that.
Oh yes have thoughts of those days often.
Everyone who lived then should also have a lot of modesty, because you people ruined the planet and screwed over all generations that came after in multiple ways.
There was nothing but wars ... what good old days you are talking about.?
during that time, I really believed the future world would be better. At that time, I really believed.
Bob's memory contains a billion lyrics
This song is such an impressive act of empathy.
A song about the effects of globalisation - everything is cheaper somewhere else and damn the consequences.
Look up his performance of 'Only A Pawn In Their Game' in Greenwood, Missisippi. You can clearly see the black people in the fields listening to him getting in awe thinking "he knows how we feel"
@@travelerculture4963 I always thought they looked like they were thinking “this guy can’t sing”.
@@bobsmith-ji2uh perhaps both lol but yeah it was a big deal back then, Sam Cooke got astonished when he listened Blowin' In The Wind for the first time and learned a white person wrote it. Which inspired him to write A Change Is Gonna Come
jon morgan, exactly! And to think Dylan only got Bs in his school in Hibbing, whereas people like Ted
Cruz (cum laude at Princeton) or Josh Hawley (phi beta kappa at Standford) are seen as the educated ones. America has an education system, but it's hard to say what it measures. It certainly doesn't measure empathy.
So lucky growing up with Bob
Super rare glimpse of Dylan , deep in his phase of expanding on what Woody Guthrie pioneered .
Yeah I read in a biography Woody was a big influence on him early on. Listen to the depth of concern that generation had at such a young age. I have heard 30 year olds now who sound about as mature as 15 just want the latest video game and he's 22 there sounds like he's a grandfather. Been orphaned in some mining town got a bunch of mouths to feed etc.
A lot of this stuff is symbolic . When Biden was sworn in , one singer ( Jennifer Lopez ) sang THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND . This subtle song was written as part of a government program called the WPA . In a time of poverty , Franklin Roosevelt paid unemployed Americans to build roads , but also write songs , if they were musicians . Woody Guthrie wrote this " socialistic " song for pay , when his family was hungry - or almost there . The Democrats were saying to the world , " call us names if you wish , but we come from a deep tradition , of Americans caring for one another , in hard times ,and we are NOT ashamed of that ! " Dylan's favorite book was Guthrie's autobiography . He met the aging Guthrie , and sang to him . Check out the song NORTH COUNTRY BLUES by Dylan . Starving miners . Rich , distant mine owners . The haves and have nots . Pure Woody Guthrie , in a modern song . In one of her poems , the bank robber , BONNIE PARKER , mentions the WPA program in a wry joke . This is Americana , and it runs deep .
ive read 8 biographies about him. youre wrong. dylan has admitted that he just played what he thought would bring him success. hes said this himself. you can put him on a pedestal but in reality he was just trying to make things stick and folk happened to be his first vehicle for that. he was a big fan of woody and he imitated him alot. this takes nothing away from the music for me. in alot of ways he wasnt a genius but knew how to use imitation and sometimes copy what he like. (copying melodies or songs in folk is not disrespectful and its pretty common) alot about him was purposefully artificial
@@aeoteroa818 source?
@@5h1f7
Dylan wanted to make a career of doing Gunthrie songs In bars and coffee shops but there were too many impostors already doing it so he sang whatever until Joan Baez made his career.
everybody just can't believe what they're hear'n. just on a different level
i have been listing to bob for 50 years now and he never let me down yet
Well there was Gotta Serve Somebody, so nobody’s perfect but, yeah pretty much!
Two chords and the truth
Amen!
No exactly different then a child playing a banjo on a porch in West Virginia!
and room smellted heavy from drinking ... selection of words ... perfect
Yeah as punk has taught us less is more and straight to the point.
@@piotrczuprynski I've been in all those Bars he was signing about, all around from that Town called HIBBING MN. 💥TRUTH💥
This song brings tears to my eyes and sends chills up my spine.
I'm closer to leaving the earth now and I still feel like a kid.
That’s a good thing ❤. Me too
Never heard him sing as well as this before. Great song. Great performance.
The Carnegie Hall show of 1963 is also fantastic a must listen
everybody thinks dylan couldn't sing - i've said it before - he could sing as well as John Denver, essentially perfect pitch, just different intonation
Nashville Skyline has some of his best singing.
A sentimental one perhaps had him primed
It's absolutely incredible, seriously incredible, that a 22 year old from Minnesota could write this, and also perform it like this. The poise, the timing, the vocalising . . . not to mention the writing. WTF? Where did this even come from?
god or the devil...
"The chief commander from this world and the one we cannot see" - Bob Dylan
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Woody Guthrie was a seminal influence on Dylan. The same road .
@@jonncockrell3606 Thanks for the reply. I got that. I still say it's crazy, though. I mean, 22 years old, WTF? Serious literary genius there.
From living in the Iron Range. Like me
always gives me the goosebumps
Some things in the world never change, one generation to the next.
Oh yes, so true ! I just feel the same as I listen to young Bob !
Ditto🕊️&☮️
Yes
Same, it's like an old man singing through a young man's body.
The way Dylan sings this is perfect. So happy to see this on youtube again. It makes you think that there might be more than meets the eye.
Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan; He grew up in HIBBING MN.,all of the men worked the Iron Oar Mines that's all they knew, his Family own a Cleaners.
They were Jewish. He got out of that Town and so did my Father but by WWII, my Father return a couple of times per. year. All the men would be sitting in the same Bar's surrounded this Town drinking, we would stop in the same men would be sitting at the same seats telling the same stories year after year. That's all they knew is was their Father's did to their Grandfather's did. It was sad but as I know they all died and very few moved on. It was once the Richest to the Rags now not as bad in parts their Highschool there in that Town was nicer then the White House, even had a indoor pool. So glad my Family was from there, a Town but with Strong Immigrants and PROUD.
There was he got out of a Mining Town to WINNING THE NOBEL PRIZE, passing everyone by far..
@@loriholman6125 It's incredible how he describes the lives here. Thanks for sharing some memories of that town. Gives this song more background.
I heard Dylan say in an interview that when he started playing music he really just did it to get girls.
He wanted to be like Elvis, not to sound like him but to change music in a very profound way. Which he did.
Eddie Murphy's big dream was also to be Elvis. In the comedy world. Which he was.
The Beatles also wanted to be like Elvis. Not to imitate but to have a tremendous influence. Which they did. We can all agree on that.
Mikey, there IS.
I'm 71 and an Indian. Even Bob may not have thought that this piece was in spirit relevant for all countries for all time. Perhaps one of his best socially relevant writings.
Everything from borrowing a pick from someone behind him to watching everyone's face go from smiles and laughing to "oh shit ,I'm witnessing something special right now."
Mom mom
I believe that is Clarence Ashley that gave him the pick! Trying to figure out the gentleman with the banjo to Clarence's right?
@@bruceringrose7539 Roscoe Holcombe?
The guy - who gave him his pick - was no one else than young Chester Atkins !!!
@@bruceringrose7539 Clarence Ashley would have been 68 in 1963. It's not him.
Wow is that song underrated and probably not even considered one of his top 50 songs. Gave me chills listening to it.
The simplest and most straightforward...the American folk song.
He puts his heart into it.
I always think it's part of a trilogy, along with Ballad of Hollis Brown and Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
Joan Baez did it too and absolutely nailed it. It's a different song but still amazing
@@ferociousgumby all greats songs, preach
And after this stunning and jaw dropping performance, he just casually gets up and walks away.
And the difference ... 2 years later ... also at Newport ... the reaction to all the adulation ... much trouble (and fun) brewing.
Generations of singer/songwriters owe it to this genius.
I have no words just Thankyou!
I was Listening to a lot of heavy metal in my early teens.(1980's 90's) Then I heard this..... It was The Hardest Darkest and heaviest Sound I had ever felt... It made me feel Sick and Scared and Changed my Life...30 years later... Still Writing songs and Listening to this Pied piper
one of the most ironic things about music, loud doesnt always mean heavy. Beethoven Symphony no.7 in A major, Op. 92 is one of my favorite examples
It made me sick and annoyed so I never listened anymore!😂
@@wendyjohansen6174 😶
@@wendyjohansen6174 annoyed at him or the story line or just the endless struggle of human life regardless the decade, century, millennia? Curious and respect your freedom to express a view and expand upon it. Have a fantastic week.
That's exactly how I was affected when I heard "The Ballad of Hollis Brown". Darker then any metal song I'd ever heard.
i been looking for this video for ages so happy its back up on youtube
One of the greatest performances of all time love it 🥰
One of his best songs. And he was so young! He certainly deserved the Nobel prize, the first singer who got it.
He's more than a singer : he's the only poet of our generation.
MERVEILLEUX Bob Dylan ! he makes me learn English to understand what he was singing
Having grown up in Hibbing, Minnesota I left and never looked back. Mom and sis still there and it’s my roots but in my time his story is just the same: Nothing there to hold me.
He doesn’t acknowledge Hibbing these days, but the town bends over backwards to claim him
Before taconite mining took off there wasn’t much for workers post-war. The young guys didn’t want to work underground…
Back in 1966
I was a freshman in highschool here in Vermont and our pretty little English Teacher had us do several weeks of
studying Bob Dylan's music as poetry. We absolutely loved her for that and I have never forgoten Miss. White and her wisdom
in doing that. She had us completely into Englsih class and thank you Bob Dylan. I still love his music. (And play it on my guitar!)
A young Judy Collins over Bobs right shoulder.
Dylan went from performing in coffee houses and folk festivals to releasing 40 studio albums, 102 singles, 24 notable extended plays, 61 music videos and 16 live albums. Not to mention winning an Oscar for best song. He currently has a net worth of over five hundred million dollars.
Don't forget a Nobel Prize. How many Jewish kids from northern Minnesota have a Nobel for literature? Heck how many small town kids from anywhere have one? A genius of word and song.
Jeez he kept the pick. Thanks for sharing...
Classic Bob
Notorious for gathering freebies.
Legend has it he still plays with that pick to this day!
And he came down to earth sidesaddle on a meteorite...and the world was glad
What I love so much about this song, is that it summons up memories from the subconscious minds of its listeners. The experiences and memories he sings of, are all held within almost every American spirit. Because they heard the stories told to them by their parents, who were in turn told the same stories by their parents.
And that is why if you look into the faces of the listeners, there is something more going on there than just listening. They are actually imagining themselves going through those same things in another life. So naturally these images that Bob calls up by his voice, which is tailored perfectly to sing of such things, can be easily related to, and thus the song really hits home for those who listen because being Americans, they can relate to another generation of American's struggles.
The two people who capture what I'm talking about best are the one lovely girl who sits behind Bob, with her face resting on her arms. And the older gentleman sitting directly behind him.
Look at the girl, it's almost as if she is picturing herself running around, trying to take care of three kids, see to her older brother's meals, and fill up his bath water. Fixing his lunch pail, and just taking on the role of the loving, dutiful younger sister whose life is bound up in work. It almost looks like she was made for the role. She has like a hard, face with a realistic expression. Like she knows exactly the kind of life Bob sings about.
It's the same with that older, short dark-haired man right behind him. He has the look for someone who might be the older patriarch of some family clan. And as Bob sings, his mind drifts back to those years where maybe he either played such a role, or knew someone who did. For if you catch his eyes, they are looking down, as if the memories of that life either real or imagined, has seized ahold of his mind. So that he too is able to picture coming home at the end of a long day shift. Scrubbing off the grit and the grime and such.
It's a really unique feeling you get from watching and listening to this video.
Good commentary!
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 Thanks so much for that friend. So glad you enjoyed.
Incredible comment. Also, that man sitting behind him is blind bluegrass guitar legend Doc Watson. The patriarch of solo bluegrass guitar
@@maxwellgilbert7138 Thanks for that my friend. So pleased you enjoyed. I did not know that man was blind or connected with Blue Grass. I love that music. Even tho i do not buy any of it, as i don't buy any music. I always love listening to it whenever and wherever i hear it. It's uniquely American.
I only read the first couple of sentences. But agreed with it so hard, I didn’t want the next couple of paragraphs ruin it.
Great classic! Amazing that Bob could do such a masterpiece at such a young age! God bless everyone from Patrick
Lyrics...
Come gather 'round friends and I'll tell you a tale
Of when the red iron pits ran a-plenty
But the cardboard-filled windows and old men on the benches
Tell you now that the whole town is empty
In the north end of town my own children are grown
But I was raised on the other
In the wee hours of youth my mother took sick
And I was brought up by my brother
The iron ore poured as the years passed the door
The drag lines an' the shovels they was a-humming
'Till one day my brother failed to come home
The same as my father before him
Well, a long winter's wait from the window I watched
My friends they couldn't have been kinder
And my schooling was cut as I quit in the spring
To marry John Thomas, a miner
Oh, the years passed again, and the giving was good
With the lunch bucket filled every season
What with three babies born, the work was cut down
To a half a day's shift with no reason
Then the shaft was soon shut, and more work was cut
And the fire in the air, it felt frozen
'Till a man come to speak, and he said in one week
That number eleven was closing
They complained in the East, they are paying too high
They say that your ore ain't worth digging
That it's much cheaper down in the South American towns
Where the miners work almost for nothing
So the mining gates locked, and the red iron rotted
And the room smelled heavy from drinking
Where the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long
As I waited for the sun to go sinking
I lived by the window as he talked to himself
This silence of tongues it was building
'Till one morning's wake, the bed it was bare
And I was left alone with three children
The summer is gone, the ground's turning cold
The stores one by one they're all folding
My children will go as soon as they grow
Well, there ain't nothing here now to hold them
Thank you.
I think he says the stars one by one are folding..not stores
But I could be wrong. For 57 years I been hearing stars...I'll have to listen again
Thank you for taking the time to type this in entirety 🥀
I listened again & it could be stores but I'm a stick with the stars blinking out
Also I think (2:44) "They Say in the East, they are paying too high. then (3:13) "And the sad, silent song made the hour twice as long". How does such a long song seem so short?
a masterpiece, only so many other Bob songs are. A true Master
Я родился 1963 году а он поет эту песню а я с удовольствием слушаю
The young, simple and legendary Bob
Nothing simple about him. Unless you’re simple. The man is a mirror. This song reflected decades of middle class nightmares. Who are you my friend? Are you simple?
Wow- pretty harsh reply to a straightforward note of appreciation- it seems YOU may be the simple one my friend...
I believe Judy Collins is sitting right behind Doc Watson. What a legendary concert!
The greatest folk/rock poet of my generation.
For my generation too. Born in the early sixties. Dylan became a favourite early on..
Greatest song writer after his even more famous father. King David. Family business.
And there behind Bob, so young, singing this heartrending song of mining, family life, death, and poverty, the gorgeous Judy Collins, already famous and bringing his music to the world with her soaring voice.
So that's who that is. I thought she looked kinda familiar.
Yes, she looks on mesmorised, thinking ok, I’ve got a pretty voice but this guy’s poetry will last forever! He wouldn’t have paid her much attention since he was there in the company of one Joan Baez. Either immediately before or after this song they did another of his together: ruclips.net/video/a3UXYJzelk4/видео.html&ab_channel=LeviWeiss
She is feeling the song too, watch her breathing.
Love seeing Doc Watson accompanying Bob.
the magnitude of this boys poetic intelligence. to tell a tale like that at his age shows such keen and discerning observation of the lives of people lived. to convey such tragic emotion and specific hardship for a fictional character is just incredible. musical giant
I always loved Dylan for singing some songs as a woman. Every since I was a small kid. He's a hero in a thousand ways.
James Taylor does that with "Millworker". Very touching and beautiful.
Most iconic voice ever along with leonards.
Who is Leo Nards?
@@paulrevere2928 Cohens of course !
Leonard Cohen
this is wonderful
Words can't discribe the gratitude I have for Bob
it's clear why he has been awarded nobel prize
Rustic, word crafted, observation documented. An artist that deserves the recognition far beyond that of a pop star. Thank you for uploading - Liked.
I sorta think the Nobel Prize could be considered recognition.
@@jjhpor An achievement indeed.
He is more a historic figure, somebody whos life should be though in schools. Long live dylan...
Really really well said
@@allencollins6031 Thank you.
Long time looking for this video
Me too
Its on Vimeo in better quality
@@connormccormack7275 what's the link?
Me too only now I’ve found it and recorded it so I wouldn’t loose it
The on lookers just thinking “Where did this guy come from” just stunning. Feel fortunate to be part of his generation.
My Father's Home Town.
It was hard. Bob got out so did my Father, WWII.
What beautiful clarity in the recording....
An incredible story, and he makes it seem so easy, but this guy has the perception of a man at the end of his life, when he's just a raw-boned kid. This is a magnificent piece of writing that is deceptively simple.
Thank's a lot from France. Marvelous song !
Hello Sylvie..
I think many of the the people sitting around listening suddenly realized that a page of history was turning while he sang that song. Doc Watson knew for sure.
I’m from the iron range in upper Michigan. This song hits close.
Me too
we were all there together...thank you George Wein for all the years you worked to make it happen!
Watchatalkinbout Willis?
Most of us in Nothern Minnesota and Wisconsin are only a couple generations away from immigrants. Life was not easy for our grandparents. This song captures that.
I thank the music gods for Mr. Dylan. Thank you.
I had the absolute pleasure of seeing this man live.
Me too. Slane 1984
5x for me and long for 6th
22 years old 80 years old scary how he still looks the same ..Vampire Bob
More than 60 years later this song keeps its tremendous emotional power magnified by the brilliant performance of Dylan❤❤❤!!
The face is young but the song is timeless!
The start of something extraordinary
His voice is strong and clear and sounds great singing this style of song. Always was always will be a Bob Dylan fan 🫶🏻✌🏼👍🏻
Happy 80th birthday bob.🙏👍🇮🇪
I was wonder how long it would be… True lyrical craftsman! Keep ‘em coming Jesse we need your songs to keep us going.
This became my favorite song as soon as I heard it it takes me back to a happier time in my life
Me too, for sure and going back to The song he's signing about. Hibbing MN.
Thank you for posting this - just incredible!
Saw him a couple times with the Grateful Dead. A true poet. Respect
Oddly enough ..Being the same age as Bob ..I happened to have been in Hibbing when Bob still lived there..
Masabi iron range ..open pit mine ...red dust town ..
Made an unforgetable mark in my mind ...~~~
Oddly enough ..I too was in Hibbing .. and was also the one who wrote the above ..Bob and Hibbing
are still on my mind ..Just like him to know his writing inspired me to write also ..impressions of a red dust town ...~~~
with likes from 80's thrash/death metal to other alternatives genres, man, i just luv Dylan! i could go from listening Morbid Angel to Dylan in a sec! and I luv even more the "acoustic" albums! what a writer, performer, artist... (no wonder about the Nobel)... the lyrics, the melody, his voice, his poetry, metaphors, hidden messages! he sings about life as hard as it could be, like in this song... see the people around him, quiet, listening to him... man, one just gotta luv Dylan!
Same here
One of my favourite Bob Dillon songs. So poignant, it still holds true today in so many ways.
Just full of beauty and depth.
Thanks for sending this along to me and all the others.
I could write pages. Jane
The old soul shows thru here in this 22-year-old. Priceless.
Truly a master song writer.
Thanks for the music Bob.
A masterpiece performed by a Genius
Magnifique et envoûtante prestation, si jeune.
crazy about Bobs early folk songs. I love his voice. He’s just awesome!
It's true. Here was the original Bob Dylan, singing folk music pure and from the heart. Despite all his brilliance through the years and through exploring and mixing different genres of music, somehow his early folk music remains his most iconic, and may even be, dare I say, his most brilliant and pure compositions.
Way, way back, when I first discovered Dylan, it was through a tape recording of his early greatest hits. This song was on it and it struck the deepest chord of all the songs on the tape. Eventually I lost the tape and could not find this song for ages, and I missed it so much, until the internet and RUclips came along. It remains one of my all time favourites of his to this day.
He sang it here at Newport in 1963 before he even released it on his third album, which came out in 1964. Amazing. And ti think that in 1963 he was juuuuust appearing on the scene, after his second album which had just given him a name. The guys around him were watching music history in the making. How cool is that? And how insightful of Pete Seeger to get him to the festival.
Only 22 at the time and already a good storyteller,❤️with a wery special woice to listen to 🌹
Earliest Bob I've ever seen. Tks.
Incredible!