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Mr. Tambourine Man
General
Songinfo
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Bob Dylan's
Tambourine Man -
a
hymn to liberty, inspiration and the power of music - is known as a
folk song as well as chased Rock. It is from Dylan's album "Bringing it all back home", 1965.
A broad public audience got known to the song in 1965, in the version of The Byrds who released the song as a single, even before Bob Dylan's own version. The debut album of The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man", was published while the single just was on top of the charts. This album introduced the Folk-Rock to the awareness of the broad American public.
The structure of this song is extraordinary. While the most pop-songs are usually characterized by a short instrumental introduction that leads to the first verse, Mr. Tambourine Man starts with the chorus right away. In the original Bob Dylan plays an acoustic-guitar. And an e-guitar plays the counter-melody to Bob Dylan's vocals.
Very often this song was understood as a drug-song, and indeed there are indicators that one could interprete like that. It tells about "smoke rings of my mind" and "take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship".
But Dylan again and again negated the role of chemical substances for the song's cryptical imagery but instead mentioned Fellini's movie "La Strada" as influnce and inspiration for this song. Also the folk guitarist Bruce Langhorn could have been an inspiration for this song. At the time the song was composed he was known to play a big Tambourin-like drum.
The single Mr. Tambourine Man was on top of the UK- and US-charts and made The Byrds stars on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. However the instrumental parts of the single, as well as the B-side I knew Id want you, was not played by The Birds themselves: Columbia Records let play the instrumental tracks by well-known studio musicians, because The Byrds still were an inexperienced young band. But on the rest of the album they played the instruments themselves.
In the original The Byrds played on a 12-string guitar. They were the only American band that was allowed to meet The Beatles on their first US tour. From this time they had influenced each other. The Beatles played a 12-string guitar for a while too.
On the Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Times, the Byrds' version ranks number 79, Dylan's version number 106. Thus Mr. Tambourine Man is one song of only three that is double-ranked.
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