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Subject	Bob Dylan songs 1983 songs Songs written by Bob Dylan The Band songs Song recordings produced by Mark Knopfler
abstract	%22Blind Willie McTell%22 is a song by Bob Dylan, titled after the blues singer Blind Willie McTell. It was recorded in the spring of 1983, during the sessions for Dylan's album Infidels, but was left off the album and officially released only in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991. The melody is loosely based on %22St. James Infirmary Blues%22. For the song, Dylan, seated at the piano and accompanied by Mark Knopfler on the twelve-string acoustic guitar, sings a series of plaintive verses depicting allegorical scenes which reflect on the history of American music and slavery. Each verse ends with the same refrain: %22Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell%22.Following three albums with overt Christian themes, Infidels struck most major rock critics as dealing largely with secular concerns, and they hailed it as a comeback. The mysterious exclusion of %22Blind Willie McTell%22 complicates the story. When bootleggers released the outtakes from Infidels, the song was recognized as a composition approaching the quality of such classics as %22Tangled Up In Blue%22, %22Like a Rolling Stone%22 and %22All Along the Watchtower%22.%22Blind Willie McTell%22 was a concert staple for The Band throughout the 1990s. They also recorded it for their 1993 album Jericho. Dylan later claimed in a Rolling Stone interview that hearing The Band's version of the song inspired him to begin performing it at his own concerts:%22Dylan can't possibly be sorry that the world has had the benefit of hearing, for instance, %22Blind Willie McTell%22, – an outtake from 1983's Infidels that has subsequently risen as high in most people's Dylan pantheon as a song can rise, and that he himself has played live since. Can he? Bob Dylan – %22I started playing it live because I heard the Band doing it. Most likely it was a demo, probably showing the musicians how it should go. It was never developed fully, I never got around to completing it. There wouldn't have been any other reason for leaving it off the record. It's like taking a painting by Monet or Picasso – goin' to his house and lookin' at a half-finished painting and grabbing it and selling it to people who are 'Picasso fans.'%22Dylan started performing the song live in the summer of 1997, and an August 17, 1997 concert performance appeared on various releases of his %22Love Sick%22 single in June 1998.The Michael Gray book Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (2002) includes a chapter on this song and its musical and historical background.
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