The Best Dylan Covers: Chrissie Hynde – I Shall Be Released

“I Shall Be Released” is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.

The Band recorded the first officially-released version of the song for their 1968 debut album, Music from Big Pink, with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus. The song was also performed near the end of the Band’s 1976 farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in which all the night’s performers (with the exception of Muddy Waters) plus Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood appeared on the same stage. Additional live recordings by the Band were included on the 1974 concert album Before the Flood and the 2001 expanded CD reissue of Rock of Ages.

Dylan recorded two primary versions. The first recording was made in collaboration with the Band during the “basement tapes” sessions in 1967, and eventually released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 in 1991. (A remixed version of this 1967 take was rereleased, along with a preliminary take, on The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete in 2014.) Of the first demo, Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner had said, “Curiously enough the music in this song and the high pleading sound of Dylan’s voice reminds one of the Bee Gees.” Dylan recorded the song a second time (with a much different arrangement and altered lyrics, and accompanied by Happy Traum) in 1971, releasing this new version on Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II.

On October 16, 1992, a stunning collection of rock’n roll legends gathered at Madison Square Garden to celebrate Bob Dylan on the 30th anniversary of his first album.

Chrissie Hynde sang I Shall Be Released on this historic event. She came close to make the song her own!

Chrissie Hynde – I Shall Be Released:

“Another gospel-soul arrangement, but Hynde lays surprisingly jazzy vocals on top for the verses. That’s jarring enough given her classic rock-chick voice,but more voices join her on the chorus to turn the song into a pure anthem.”
– Paste Magazine

Chrissie Hynde: I Shall Be Released + I’ll Stand By You: Don’t Extradite Julian Assange.
This protest was just prior to the impending appearance of Julian Assange at Woolwich Crown Court where he may be receive a 175 year sentence for exposing murder and war crimes by USA soldiers/Government.

 

 

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• MusicThisDay.com
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• Lucinda Williams – Tryin’ To Get To Heaven – The Best Dylan Covers
• Alicia Keys – Tryin’ To Get To Heaven – The Best Dylan Covers
• Lou Reed – Foot of Pride – The Best Dylan Covers
• Patti Smith – Changing Of The Guards – The Best Dylan Covers
• Emmylou Harris – Every Grain Of Sand – The Best Dylan Covers
• Peter Case – Long Time Gone – The Best Dylan Covers
• Nina Simone – Ballad of Hollis Brown – The Best Dylan Covers
• Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy – Brownsville Girls – The Best Dylan Covers
• Alison Krauss – I Believe In You – The Best Dylan Covers
• Jerry Garcia Band – I Shall Be Released – The Best Dylan Covers
• Roger McGuinn – Up To Me – The Best Dylan Covers
• Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris – Shelter From The Storm – The Best Dylan Covers
• George Harrison – If Not For You – The Best Dylan Covers 
• Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash – It Ain’t Me, Babe – The Best Dylan Covers
• Tom Jones – What Good Am I? – The Best Dylan Covers
• Rodney Crowell sings Bob Dylan covers
• Karl Erik’s expectingrain.com
• Olof’s “Still On The Road“

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