Bob Dylan spends a large part of this year jamming with the Hawks in the basement of their house in West Saugerties, New York, called The Big Pink. Dylan's daughter Anna is born in the summer and in August a new recording contract with Columbia is signed. The first album, John Wesley Harding, is recorded I Nashville in October and November and released right after Christmas.

2 The Year At a glance

1967 Year At A Glance

3 CALENDAR

26 January	Village Voice publishes Jack Newfields article'Brecht of the Jukebox, Poet of the Electric Guitar'.
March	Single Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat/Most Likely You Go Your Way is released.
27 March	Release of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits.
7 May	First interview since accident in New York Daily News.
7 May	Premiere of Don't Look Back at the Presido Theatre in San Francisco.
June-October	Basement tapes sessions in The Big Pink, the Hawks' house in West Saugerties near Woodstock.
July	Single If You Gotta Go, Go Now/To Ramona is released in the Benelux countries only!
11 July	Birth of Anna Lea Dylan, Sara and Bob's second child.
21 August	Dylan's Columbia Records recording contract is renewed.
3 October	Woody Guthrie dies.
17 October	First John Wesley Harding recording session.
6 November	Second John Wesley Harding recording session.
29 November	Third and last John Wesley Harding recording session.
27 December	John Wesley Harding is released.

4 RECORDINGS

There are no recordings from 1967 other than the recording sessions mentioned above.

5 JOHN WESLEY HARDING

This album was recorded during three different sessions in October and November in Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee. There were no songs recorded other than the released ones. There are no outtakes circulating from these sessions. Here's a summary:

		# of	take released on
Date	Song	takes	JWH[1]	BIOG[2]
17 October	Drifter's Escape	5	2
	I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	4	4
	The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest	1	1
6 November	All Along The Watchtower	5	3+5 [3]	3+5
	John Wesley Harding	2	2
	As I Went Out One Morning	5	5
	I Pity The Poor Immigrant	10	10
	I Am A Lonesome Hobo	5	5
29 November	The Wicked Messenger	1	1
	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	1	1	2
	Down Along The Cove	1	1
	Dear Landlord	1	1	2

For more details about these sessions please refer to the corresponding session page in Still On The Road.

Live history

All Along The Watchtower	Chicago, Illinois, 3 January 1974 with The Band.
As I Went Out One Morning	Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10 January 1974 with The Band [4].
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest	John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 July 1987 with The Grateful Dead.
Dear Landlord	Performing Arts Center, Providence, Rhode Island, 25 October 1992.
Down Along The Cove	EMU Ballroom, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 14 June 1999.
Drifter's Escape	The Hult Center For The Performing Arts, Eugene, Oregon, 30 April 1992.
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	Woodside Bay, Near Ryde, Isle Of Wight, England, 31 August 1969.
I Pity The Poor Immigrant	Woodside Bay, Near Ryde, Isle Of Wight, England, 31 August 1969.
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	Woodside Bay, Near Ryde, Isle Of Wight, England, 31 August 1969.
The Wicked Messenger	Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, 12 July 1987 with The Grateful Dead.

I Am A Lonesome Hobo and John Wesley Harding have probably never been played live.

Officially released live versions:

Before The Flood	All Along The Watchtower
At Budokan	All Along The Watchtower
Dignity CD-single	All Along The Watchtower
MTV Unplugged	All Along The Watchtower
Woodstock '94	All Along The Watchtower

Performances during The Never-Ending Tour:

All Along The Watchtower	every year!
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest	1988, 2000
Dear Landlord	1992, 2000
Down Along The Cove	1999, 2000
Drifter's Escape	1992. 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine	1988-1990, 1992
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	every year!
The Wicked Messenger	1997, 2000, 2001

6 SONGS 1967

	Song	Copyright year
June –	All American Boy [5]	1973
October	All You Have To Do Is Dream
	Apple Suckling Tree	1970
	Baby, Ain't That Fine
	Bourbon Street [6]	1973
	Clothes Line Saga	1970
	Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)	1967
	Don't You Try Me Now
	Don't Ya Tell Henry	1971
	Get Your Rocks Off! [7]	1968
	Goin' To Acapulco	1975
	Gonna Get You Now
	I Can't Make It Alone
	I Shall Be Released	1967
	I'm Alright
	I'm Not There (1956)	1970
	Lo And Behold!	1967
	Lock Up Your Door
	Million Dollar Bash	1967
	Nothing Was Delivered	1968
	Odds Ands Ends	1970
	One Man's Loss
	One For My Baby
	Open The Door, Homer	1968
	Please Mrs Henry	1967
	Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) [8]	1968
	Santa Fé [9]	1973
	Sign On The Cross [10]	1971
	Silent Weekend [11]	1973
	Tears Of Rage [12]	1968
	This Wheel's On Fire	1967
	Tiny Montgomery	1967
	Too Much Of Nothing	1967
	Try Me Little Girl
	Wild Wolf [13]	1973
	Won't You Be My Baby
	Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread	1967
	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere	1967
	You Can Change Your Name
October – November	All Along The Watchtower, As I Went Out One Morning, Dear Landlord, Down Along The Cove Drifter's Escape, I Am A Lonesome Hobo, I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine, I Pity The Poor Immigrant. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, John Wesley Harding, The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, The Wicked Messenger.	4 January 1968

Songs without copyright year may well by written by somebody else than Dylan.

The lyrics to Sign On The Cross, Quinn The Eskimo, I Shall Be Released, Get Your Rocks Off!, Silent Weekend and to all the songs on The Basement Tapes album are published in Lyrics 1962-1985.

7 SOURCES

Tim Dunn	I Just Write 'Em As They Come. Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan A Not-A-Ces Publishing Venture 1990.
Glen Dundas	Tangled Up In Tapes — 4th Edition A Recording History of Bob Dylan SMA Services, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 1999. Softcover 334 pages.
Clinton Heylin	A Life In Stolen Moments. Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995. Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages.
Clinton Heylin	Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 St. Martin's Press, 1995, 233 pages.
Michael Krogsgaard	Positively Bob Dylan A Thirty-Year Discography, Concert & Record Session Guide 1960-1991. Popular Culture, Ink. 1991. 500 pages

8 SUGGESTED READINGS

8.1 General background

Michael Gray	Song & Dance Man III. The Art Of Bob Dylan Cassell 1999. Hardback 918 pages (!!)
Clinton Heylin	Behind The Shades. A Biography. Summit Books 1991, 500 pages.
Daniel Kramer	Bob Dylan. Citadel Press (hardback) or Pocket Books. Great photo book from 1964-1965.
Greil Marcus	Invisible Republic. Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Henry Holt & Company 1997.
Anthony Scaduto	Bob Dylan. An intimate biography. New American Library 1973
Eric von Schmidt, Jim Rooney	Baby, Let Me Follow You Down. The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years. Anchor Books 1979.
Robert Shelton	No Direction Home. The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New American Library 1986.
Howard Sounes	Down The Highway. The Life Of Bob Dylan. Groove Press 2001.

8.2 Article compilations

Carl Benson (ed)

The Bob Dylan Companion — Four Decades of Commentary.

Schirmer Books, New York 1998. Softcover 306 pages.

Craig McGregor (ed)

Bob Dylan. A Retrospective.

William Morrow 1972

Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed)

Conclusions On The Wall. New Essays On Bob Dylan.

Thin Man 1980

8.3 Selected articles

Dealing With Fear. An examination of John Wesley Harding – by Matthew Zuckerman, Isis #77

Greil Marcus Interview – by Tony Norman, On The Tracks #11 (Summer 1997)

Hubert Saal Goes To Woodstock – article in The Telegraph 56 (Winter 1997)

I'm Not There (1956) typescript – The Telegraph 37 (Winter 1990)

Rick Danko Interview – by Marjorie Kaufman, On The Tracks #10 (Spring 1997)

Rick Danko Interview – by Tony Norman, On The Tracks #16 (Spring 1999)

The Basement Tapes: Going Down To Big Pink – by Kim Hatton & Dve Thomas, Dignity #5

Thoughts On The Basement Tapes – Roy Kelly, The Telegraph 43 (Autumn 1992)

The Bridge Interview: Sid Griffin by Terry Kelly. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp6-18.

Subterranean Out-Takes Revisted by J Lawrence. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp19-28.

Country Bob Dylan Plays The Orpheum by David Pichaske. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 29-43.

“Say Hello” by Todd Harvey. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 44-48.

Changed Your Life by Peter Robinson. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 49-62.

“This Wheel’s On Fire by Eric Wolfson. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 63-68.

Nothing New Under The Sun. Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes Complete by Roy Kelly. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 69-72.

Reels Unflecked: The Basement Tapes Complete by Gavin Selerie. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 73-87.

The Basement Tapes Complete by Neil Corcoran. The Bridge Winter 2014 #50 pp 88-90.

Bobby’s In The Basement by Drek Barker. Isis #177, pp 22-29,

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[3] The released track is slice of take 3 and 5!

[4] Only live performance at the time of writing.

[5] No known recording or cover, probably a poem, Dwarf Music demo.

[6] No known recording or cover, Dwarf Music demo.

[7] Recorded by Manfred Mann on the album with the same name (Polydor).

[8] Only Live recording: Isle Of Wight 31 August 1969.

[9] No known recording or cover, Dwarf Music demo.

[10] Recorded by Coulson, Dean, McGuiness and Flint on the album 'Lo And Behold' (Sire)

[11] No known recording or cover, Dwarf Music demo.

[12] First Live recording: Patras, Greece, 26 June 1989.

[13] No known recording or cover, Dwarf Music demo.

6 SONGS 1967

Song

Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994

Carl Benson (ed)