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| name = Bob Dylan's 115th Dream |
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| album = [[Bringing It All Back Home]] |
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| released = {{Start date|1965|03|22}} |
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| recorded = January 13–14, 1965 |
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'''"Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"''' is a song by [[Bob Dylan]], released on his fifth album, ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]''. |
'''"Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"''' is a song by [[Bob Dylan]], released on his fifth album, ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]''. In 2005, ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine rated the song as the 68th greatest Bob Dylan song.<ref>{{cite web|title=The 100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs|work=Mojo Magazine|date=September 2005|url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojo_p4.htm#Bob%20Dylan%20Songs|access-date=May 27, 2009}}</ref> |
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==Themes== |
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The title is an allusion to a Dylan number from two years prior: "[[Bob Dylan's Dream]]". It commences with Dylan beginning to play the song alone after the rest of the band miss the entrance cue, before bursting into laughter and starting over; this was kept on the final recording. [[Bruce Langhorne]] recalls in ''[[No Direction Home]]'': |
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[Dylan] was playing all by himself at first and then he stopped and everybody laughed; and then, two seconds later, he started it again and everybody came on, just bang, like gangbusters.<ref>{{cite video |
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| people = Martin Scorsese |
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| title = No Direction Home |
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| medium = Documentary |
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| publisher = Paramount Pictures |
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|date = 2005}}</ref> |
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The song is a satirical and |
The title alludes to an earlier Dylan song, "[[Bob Dylan's Dream]]", released in 1963. The song is a satirical and surrealistic story that jumbles together historical and literary and narrative references from the [[voyages of Columbus]] to the ''[[Mayflower]]'' to ''[[Moby Dick]]'' to the present day. The narrator calls his ship's captain "Captain Arab", referring to [[Captain Ahab]] from ''Moby-Dick''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cotkin |first1=George |title=Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-998672-9 |pages=254–255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jer_G-C9UPEC&dq=%22bob+dylan%27s+115th+dream%22&pg=PT325 |language=en}}</ref> several times during the telling of the tale. |
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Historian [[Sean Wilentz]] described the song as "a six-and-a-half-minute roller-coaster ride, more joyful than scary" in which Dylan constructs a manic journey through American history:『a hipster sailor travels across a historical landscape where it’s sometimes 1620, sometimes 1851, sometimes 1492, but always 1965 as well—and could just as easily be America today, which is really the point.』For Wilentz, the song amounts to a portrait of America as "a newfound land that is frantic, exasperating, jumbled, and irrational beyond the point of absurdity".<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/06/19/bob-dylan-historian/ |
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| title = Bob Dylan, Historian | author = Wilentz, Sean| date = June 19, 2021| accessdate = July 5, 2021| work = The New York Review of Books}}</ref> |
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|title = No Direction Home: The Life and Times of Bob Dylan |
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|url = http://books.google.ca/books?id=_nAHO6LlEVMC&dq=bob+dylan%27s+115th+dream&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 |
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==Recording== |
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|isbn = 0-306-81287-8 |
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|publisher = Da Capo Press |
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Dylan recorded an acoustic version on January 13, 1965, the first day of the ''Bringing It All Back Home'' sessions. He recorded what would become the final album version a day later, with [[Bobby Gregg]] on drums, [[Bill Lee (musician)|Bill Lee]] on bass, and [[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] on piano.<ref name="McNally">{{cite book |last1=McNally |first1=Dennis |title=On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom |date=2014 |publisher=Counterpoint |isbn=978-1-61902-449-6 |pages=408 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0esZBQAAQBAJ&dq=%22bob+dylan%27s+115th+dream%22&pg=PA403 |language=en}}</ref> He did not perform the song live until October 13, 1988, then went on to play it during the final six concerts of his 1988 tour.<ref name="Williams">{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Paul |title=Bob Dylan: Performance Artist 1986-1990 And Beyond (Mind Out Of Time): The Life and Music of Bob Dylan |date=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-118-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lR71505tznwC&dq=%22bob+dylan%27s+115th+dream%22&pg=PT201 |language=en}}</ref> |
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| pages = 273–274}}</ref> as well as the Ray Stevens hit "Ahab the Arab") is in the narrator's mind for much of the tale. Numerous bizarre encounters and happenings take place in a highly sardonic, non-linear dreamscape parallel cataloguing of the discovery, creation and merits of the United States. |
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The track commences with an early take of Dylan beginning to play the song alone before producer [[Tom Wilson (record producer)|Tom Wilson]] is heard bursting into laughter<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Browne |first1=David |title=Remembering Bob Dylan's Pioneering Producer Tom Wilson |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/remembering-bob-dylan-and-velvet-undergrounds-pioneering-producer-43187/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=1 August 2020 |date=4 November 2015}}</ref> and signalling for a start-over. The track is then transitioned into a take played by the full band the next day.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Greil |title=Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads |date=2006 |publisher=PublicAffairs |isbn=978-0-7867-3658-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvBPPSmRr6kC&q=%22Bob%20Dylan%27s%20115th%20Dream%22%20laugh |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Covers== |
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The song was covered by [[Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal]] on the Dylan tribute album ''[[Chimes of Freedom (album)|Chimes of Freedom]]''.<ref name="Dickerson">{{cite magazine |last1=Dickerson |first1=John |title=A Weird and Wooly New Mix of Bob Dylan Imitations and Tributes |url=https://slate.com/culture/2012/02/chimes-of-freedom-reviewed-amnesty-international-s-uneven-bob-dylan-cover-album.html |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|access-date=1 August 2020 |date=7 February 2012}}</ref> |
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SongbyBob Dylan | |
from the album Bringing It All Back Home | |
Released | March 22, 1965 (1965-03-22) |
Recorded | January 13–14, 1965 |
Studio | Columbia Recording, New York City |
Genre | Folk rock, blues rock, talking blues |
Length | 6:32 |
Label | Columbia |
Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
"Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home. In 2005, Mojo magazine rated the song as the 68th greatest Bob Dylan song.[1]
The title alludes to an earlier Dylan song, "Bob Dylan's Dream", released in 1963. The song is a satirical and surrealistic story that jumbles together historical and literary and narrative references from the voyages of Columbus to the MayflowertoMoby Dick to the present day. The narrator calls his ship's captain "Captain Arab", referring to Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick[2] several times during the telling of the tale.
Historian Sean Wilentz described the song as "a six-and-a-half-minute roller-coaster ride, more joyful than scary" in which Dylan constructs a manic journey through American history:『a hipster sailor travels across a historical landscape where it’s sometimes 1620, sometimes 1851, sometimes 1492, but always 1965 as well—and could just as easily be America today, which is really the point.』For Wilentz, the song amounts to a portrait of America as "a newfound land that is frantic, exasperating, jumbled, and irrational beyond the point of absurdity".[3]
Dylan recorded an acoustic version on January 13, 1965, the first day of the Bringing It All Back Home sessions. He recorded what would become the final album version a day later, with Bobby Gregg on drums, Bill Lee on bass, and Paul Griffin on piano.[4] He did not perform the song live until October 13, 1988, then went on to play it during the final six concerts of his 1988 tour.[5]
The track commences with an early take of Dylan beginning to play the song alone before producer Tom Wilson is heard bursting into laughter[6] and signalling for a start-over. The track is then transitioned into a take played by the full band the next day.[7]
The song was covered by Taj Mahal on the Dylan tribute album Chimes of Freedom.[8]