Hello, my name is Ben Borrell and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that takes

an in-death look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record. Today we're not quite doing that

though. We're having a look at a single called Things Have Changed, a wonderful song that I'm sure

you're aware of. Before we get to that, don't forget you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram

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Bob Dylanpodcast.com. So let's take a look at the song that will become Dylan's most

awarded this century. It bagged of an Oscar and a Golden Globe and becomes a jewel in the

crown for a very fertile period. Not bad for a song that was rehearsed and recorded and mixed

within five hours. This place ain't doing me any good. I'm in the wrong town. I said there in

a hundred wood just for a second now. I heard I saw something blue.

This song sits between Time Out of Mind and Love and Thief

Involves Back Catalog and could have nestled easily on either album.

It shares a lot in common with Time Out of Mind's older statesman jaded themes

and also precedes the apocalyptic overtones found on modern times six years later.

There's some confusion about when and where the song was recorded.

It would appear it was cut in May 99 at Sterling Sound Studios in New York,

although it could have been done a month later, still in the Big Apple, this time at Sony Studios.

Either way, it was done with Bob's touring band at the time,

and it was a quick process. Drummer David Kemper says, we were touring and we had the day off in New York.

Bob said, tomorrow, let's go into the studio. I've got a song I want to record. We went in and played

things of change with only an engineer. We did two takes. The first was a New Orleansy thing. The second was what you hear. So in about

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