A fueled by coffee production.

My name is Ben Barrel and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that takes an in-depth look at H. Bob Dylan's studio recording record by record.

Let's just do a little bit of housekeeping at the start. The competition we were doing over the last couple of episodes has now closed.

Thank you for all your

buy me a coffee donations. Honestly, you've had so many. They are more than appreciated. We'll pick a

winner on the next episode. Also, I probably should apologize. I have a cold at the moment,

which is why this episode has what can only be described as a nasal delivery. So sorry about that. Join me at the end

of the episode to find out what we are doing next on the podcast. I'm quite excited about where we're

going next. In the meantime, let's have a look at a brilliant, brilliant song. This is Red River

Shore or Girl from the Red River Shore. Some of us turn off the lights and we live.

In the moonlight shooting by.

Bob, like a lot of artists who have a habit of producing a bewildering amount of material,

often have gems of songs lying out of the public view.

Sure, us fans know of them, but songs like Blind Willie MacTell or Up to Me that otherwise would have been erodefining classics are often left in the doldrums.

The most tragic of all of these is Red River Shore.

Unlike the two I've mentioned there, who have achieved a cult status, Red River

Shore or even girl from the Red River Shore, as it's sometimes known, is even sometimes

left out of that. It's a sprawling ballad, where Bob is at his most wistful. He thinks of the past

and love, and even as we come to see, death. The song comes from the Time Out of Mind album sessions

and joins esteemed companies such as Mississippi

ending up on the cutting room floor.

It eventually found its way out into the world

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