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"Just Like a Woman"
JustLikeaWoman.jpg
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Blonde on Blonde
B-side "Obviously 5 Believers"
Released Baronial xviii, 1966 (1966-08-18)
Recorded March 8, 1966
Studio Columbia, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre
  • Folk rock[ane]
  • pop[2]
  • country rock[three]
Length
  • 4:53 (anthology version)
  • 2:56 (single edit)
Label Columbia
Songwriter(south) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"I Want You lot"
(1966) 		"Just Like a Woman"
(1966) 		"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"
(1967)
Audio
"Only Like a Woman" (Take 1) on YouTube

"Simply Similar a Adult female" is a song written by Bob Dylan and beginning released on his 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde.[iv] Information technology was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5] Dylan'southward recording of "Only Like a Woman" was not issued as a single in the United Kingdom but the British beat group, Manfred Mann, did release a striking unmarried version of the song in July 1966, which peaked at #x on the UK Singles Nautical chart.[6] In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Dylan'due south version of the song at #232 in their listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[vii]

Writing and recording [edit]

In the album notes of his 1985 compilation, Biograph, Dylan claimed that he wrote the lyrics of this song in Kansas City on Thanksgiving Twenty-four hours, Nov 25, 1965, while on tour.[8] However, after listening to the recording session tapes of Dylan at work on this song in the Nashville studio, historian Sean Wilentz has written that Dylan improvised the lyrics in the studio, past singing "disconnected lines and semi-gibberish". Dylan was initially unsure what the person described in the vocal does that is only similar a woman, rejecting "shakes", "wakes", and "makes mistakes". The improvisational spirit extends to the band attempting, in their fourth take, a "weird, double-time version", somewhere betwixt Jamaican ska and Bo Diddley.[9]

Clinton Heylin has analyzed successive drafts of the song from the so-chosen Blonde On Blonde papers, papers that Heylin believes were either left behind by Dylan or stolen from his Nashville hotel room.[10] The first typhoon has a complete showtime verse, a single couplet from the second verse, and another couplet from the third verse. There is no trace of the chorus of the vocal. In successive drafts, Dylan added sporadic lines to these verses, without e'er writing out the chorus. This leads Heylin to speculate that Dylan was writing the words while Al Kooper played the tune over and over on the piano in the hotel room, and the chorus was a "last-minute formulation in the studio".[11] Kooper has explained that he would play piano for Dylan in his hotel room, to aid the song-writing process, and so would teach the tunes to the studio musicians at the recording sessions.[12]

The master accept of "Just Similar a Adult female" was produced past Bob Johnston and recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee on March 8, 1966, during the recording of Blonde on Blonde, Dylan's seventh studio album.[13] The song features a lilting tune, backed by delicately picked nylon-string guitar and pianoforte instrumentation, resulting in arguably the most commercial track on the album.[4] The musicians bankroll Dylan on the runway include Charlie McCoy, Joseph A. Souter Jr., and Wayne Moss on guitar, Henry Strzelecki on bass guitar, Hargus "Pig" Robbins on pianoforte, Al Kooper on organ and Kenny Buttrey on drums.[4] [14] Although Dylan's regular guitar sideman, Robbie Robertson, was nowadays at the recording session, he did not play on the song.[4]

This exploration of female wiles and feminine vulnerability was widely rumored—"not least by her acquaintances among Andy Warhol's Mill retinue"—to be about Edie Sedgwick.[15] The reference to Baby's penchant for "fog, amphetamine and pearls" suggests Sedgwick or some similar debutante, co-ordinate to Heylin.[xi] "Merely Like a Woman" has too been rumored to accept been written nigh Dylan's relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.[4] In detail, information technology has been suggested that the lines "Delight don't allow on that y'all knew me when/I was hungry and it was your globe" may refer to the early days of their relationship, when Baez was more than famous than Dylan.[4]

Discussing whether the biographical basis of this song is important, literary critic Christopher Ricks has argued, "Everyone can understand the feelings and the relationship described in the song, so why does it thing if Dylan wrote information technology with one woman in listen?"[xvi]

In add-on to its appearance on Blonde on Blonde, "Just Similar a Woman" also appears on several Dylan compilations, including Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Masterpieces, Biograph, The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1, The Essential Bob Dylan, and Dylan.[iv]

The "Simply Like a Adult female" recording session was released in its entirety on the 18-disc Collector's Edition of The Homemade Serial Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 in 2015, with highlights from the outtakes appearing on the half dozen-disc and 2-disc versions of that album.[17]

Alive recordings of the song have been included on Before the Flood (recorded February 1974), Bob Dylan at Budokan (recorded March 1978), The Bootleg Serial Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Alive 1966, The "Imperial Albert Hall" Concert (recorded May 1966), The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue (recorded November 1975), and the Deluxe Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Problem No More than 1979–1981 (recorded June 1981).[4] In November 2016, all Dylan's recorded alive performances of the song from 1966 were released in the boxed gear up The 1966 Alive Recordings, with the May 26, 1966 performance released separately on the album The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert. In June 2019, 5 live performances of the song from the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour were released in the box gear up The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Alive Recordings.

Dylan performed the song at George Harrison and Ravi Shankar'due south Concert for People's republic of bangladesh in 1971, and his performance is featured on the Concert for Bangladesh anthology and film.

Alleged sexism [edit]

The song has been criticized for supposed sexism or misogyny in its lyrics.[four] [18] Alan Rinzler, in his volume Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Tape, describes the vocal as "a devastating character assassination...the most sardonic, nastiest of all Dylan's putdowns of former lovers."[19] In 1971, New York Times writer Marion Meade wrote that "there'due south no more consummate catalogue of sexist slurs," and went on to note that in the vocal Dylan "defines women'due south natural traits equally greed, hypocrisy, whining and hysteria."[18] [20] Dylan biographer Robert Shelton noted that "the title is a male platitude that justifiably angers women," although Shelton believed that "Dylan is ironically toying with that platitude."[xviii]

Countering allegations of misogyny, music critic Paul Williams, in his book Bob Dylan: Performing Creative person, Book One 1960–1973, pointed out that Dylan sings in an affectionate tone from showtime to end.[xix] He further comments on Dylan'southward singing by proverb that "there'south never a moment in the song, despite the piffling digs and the confessions of pain, when you can't hear the honey in his voice."[19] Williams also contends that a fundamental theme of the song is the power that the adult female described in the lyrics has over Dylan, as evidenced by the lines "I was hungry and it was your globe."[xix]

Bill Janovitz, in his AllMusic review, has noted that in the context of the song, Dylan "seems on the defensive...equally if he has been accused of causing the adult female's breakdown. Merely he takes some of the blame as well; he was clearly taken by the woman at first, but obviously matured a little and saw through 'her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls.'" Janovitz concludes by noting that "It is certainly not misogynist to expect at a personal human relationship from the signal of view of i of those involved, be information technology human or adult female. There is nothing in the text to suggest that Dylan has a disrespect for, much less an irrational hatred of, women in full general."[4] Similarly, Christopher Ricks asks, "could there e'er be any challenging art near men and women where the accusation just didn't arise?"[21] Ricks has written that the speaker in the song seems to exist referring to a adult female who occasionally plays the "little girl card": "Someone who has times when she regresses to being childlike—who tin can't live up to the best part of herself."[16] Moreover, Gill has argued that the key "delimitation" in the song is not between human and woman, only betwixt woman and girl, and then the issue is one "of maturity rather than gender".[fifteen]

Cash Box described the vocal as "a slow-shufflin' laconic ode which underscores simply how much men need woman."[22]

Encompass versions [edit]

"Just Like a Woman" has been covered by a variety of different bands and artists, including Stevie Nicks, Radka Toneff, Roberta Flack, Dixie Carter, Manfred Isle of mann, Nina Simone, the Byrds, Joe Cocker, the Hollies, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Rod Stewart, Counting Crows, Gregg Allman, Hazel O'Connor, Richie Havens, Howard Hewett and Something Corporate.[23]

  • Gary Burton whose version is on his 1967 anthology Tennessee Firebird with Kenny Buttrey, Charlie McCoy, and Henry Strzelecki who all played on the original.
  • Manfred Mann and Jonathan Rex both released their versions of the song on July 29, 1966. The Manfreds version went to #10 on the UK Singles Chart. Greenbacks Box called it a "harsh, funk-filled reading."[24] King's version peaked at #56.
  • Joe Cocker included the song on his album With a Piddling Help from My Friends, released in May 1969.
  • The Hollies covered "Simply Like a Woman" on their 1969 album Hollies Sing Dylan. In the United States, the album was released by Epic Records under the name "Words And Music By Bob Dylan."
  • The Byrds recorded the song twice: once in 1970 during sessions for their (Untitled) anthology and again in 1971 during sessions for Byrdmaniax.[25] [26] Even so, both versions went unreleased at the time, with the 1970 recording first appearing on the 1990 Byrds box fix[27] and the 1971 version being included every bit a bonus track on the remastered Byrdmaniax CD in 2000.[26]
  • Roberta Flack covered "Only Like a Woman" on her 1970 album Affiliate Ii.
  • Ricky Nelson covered "Just Like a Adult female" on his 1971 album Rudy the 5th.
  • Nina Simone released a cover version with slightly altered lyrics on her 1971 cover-album Here Comes the Sun.
  • Howard Hewett covered "Just Like a Woman" on his 1992 album Allegiance [28]
  • Guitarist Pecker Frisell covered the vocal, strictly equally an instrumental, on his anthology Have a Little Faith in 1992.
  • Jeff Buckley covered the vocal in his 1993 album Alive at Sin-é
  • The Panics covered the song for the album Cruel Guards in 2007.
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg and Calexico covered the song for the 2007 Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not In that location.
  • Mick Jagger sang the vocal at L'Wren Scott'south memorial service in 2014.[29]
  • Charlie Daniels covered the song in his 2014 album "Off the Grid - Doin' Information technology Dylan"[30]

Footnotes [edit]

  1. ^ Neal Walters, Brian Mansfield, MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide (Visible Ink Press, 1998), ISBN , pp. 239.
  2. ^ "Simply Like a Woman". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "10 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs". Rolling Stone. August 29, 2019. Retrieved Nov 29, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d east f g h i j "Just Similar a Woman review and anthology appearances". AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-12-03 .
  5. ^ "Bob Dylan Billboard Singles". AllMusic. Retrieved 2010-03-ten .
  6. ^ Brown, Tony. (2000). The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. p. 545. ISBN0-7119-7670-8.
  7. ^ "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension". Archived from the original on 2011-xi-01. Retrieved 2011-07-25 .
  8. ^ Biograph, 1985, Liner notes & text by Cameron Crowe.
  9. ^ Wilentz 2009, p. 122
  10. ^ Heylin 2009, p. 299
  11. ^ a b Heylin 2009, pp. 303–304
  12. ^ Gill 1998, p. 94
  13. ^ Heylin, Clinton. (1997). Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions 1960–1994. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 46. ISBN0-312-15067-9.
  14. ^ Björner, Olof (June three, 2011). "ninth Blonde on Blonde session, March eight, 1966". bjorner.com. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
  15. ^ a b Gill 1998, pp. 102–103
  16. ^ a b Rietberg, Katherine (February 9, 2011). "BU professor visits Barnard, discusses Bob Dylan and misogyny". Columbia Spectator. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  17. ^ "Bob Dylan – The Cutting Border 1965–1966: The Bootleg Serial Vol. 12". Archived from the original on 2016-02-07. Retrieved 2015-11-29 .
  18. ^ a b c Shelton, Robert. (1997) [1986]. No Management Habitation. Da Capo Press. p. 323. ISBN0-306-80782-3.
  19. ^ a b c d Williams, Paul. (1990). Bob Dylan: Performing Artist, Volume One 1960–1973. Xanadu Publications Ltd. pp. 190–191. ISBNone-85480-044-two.
  20. ^ Trager, Oliver. (2004). Keys to the Pelting: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. Billboard Books. pp. 347–348. ISBN0-8230-7974-0.
  21. ^ Ricks, Christopher (January thirty, 2009). "Just Similar a Man? John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan, and the Allegation of Misogyny". MBL. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  22. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. September 3, 1966. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-01-12 .
  23. ^ "Just Like a Woman – Comprehend Versions". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-ten .
  24. ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Greenbacks Box. Baronial xiii, 1966. p. 24. Retrieved 2022-01-12 .
  25. ^ Rogan, Johnny. (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (second ed.). Rogan House. p. 629. ISBN0-9529540-1-10.
  26. ^ a b Rogan, Johnny. (2000). Byrdmaniax (2000 CD liner notes).
  27. ^ Rogan, Johnny. (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flying Revisited (2nd ed.). Rogan Business firm. pp. 443–444. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
  28. ^ "Merely Like a Woman – Howard Hewett | Song Info". AllMusic. 2001-06-05. Retrieved 2016-09-29 .
  29. ^ "Mick Jagger Sings Bob Dylan's 'Only Like a Woman' at Fifty'Wren Scott Memorial". Billboard. Associated Press. May 2, 2014. Retrieved Baronial 11, 2014.
  30. ^ "Album Spotlight: Off the Grid - Doin' Information technology Dylan".

References [edit]

  • Gill, Andy (1998). Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages. Carlton. ISBN1-85868-599-0.
  • Heylin, Clinton (2009). Revolution In The Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, Volume Ane: 1957–73. Constable. ISBN978-1-84901-051-1.
  • Wilentz, Sean (2009). Bob Dylan In America. The Bodley Head. ISBN978-1-84792-150-5.

External links [edit]

  • Lyrics – Official Site

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Like_a_Woman

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