Bob Dylan - Red River Shore (Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions - Official Audio)

[@mhibbing1]

It says a lot about a man's talent when most of his unreleased songs are superior to everyone else's official releases

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

Michael, you are much wiser than your years, Well said and completely true. I would love to have written and be able to sing a few of Bob Dylan's cast-off songs, I would be world-famous, the great music journalists would write that I was the 2nd Bob Dylan, I could live with that and be happy forevermore

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

God blessed this man Bob Dylan with many most brilliant talents, Bob would give my distant cousin Willie Speackspear a run for his money and Willie did like his money

[@joebunda9643]

How can many masterpieces can one man have? I try not to think in terms of ‘best this’ or ‘best that’ when it comes to artists… but there really can be no doubt that he’s one of, if not THE greatest lyricist/songwriter(s) ever.

[@antonyirvine9338]

Excellent comment!

[@mrjasondylan]

@@joebunda9643 definitely THE

[@warrenvanwicklin628]

How is it even possible that one of the greatest songs ever written be an outtake? Seriously.

[@eekowarrior4409]

You could make an album of Bob's outtakes that would still be one of the greatest albums of all time, from way back to Let Me Die In My Footsteps and Farewell Angelina through to Abandoned Love, Blind Willy McTell, Danville Girl etc. Quite apart from that, there's a multitude of alternative versions of various songs that are album worthy. Last verse of this one breaks my heart every time. Genius.

[@Thin_Mercury]

Thats just Dylan for you, the man is on another level

[@maxcecco7910]

We're all asking ourself that man

[@warrenvanwicklin628]

@@maxcecco7910 Thanks. Good to know I'm not the only one thinking that.

[@BM-vi5hk]

Because its basically co-opts the melody of “Jim Jones”?

[@janetbeebe6578]

Unrequited love is the most human tragedy, it's like your own shadow that doesn't fit you anymore.

[@Chapps1941]

The only love I've known. Thanks for hating my guts mom

[@Samu93c]

One of the most wonderful songs ever recorded from the greatest artist of our times.

[@danfate6862]

Si ma tu sei solo un povero esaltato

[@dudleygillham5318]

This is a brilliant song written by the great Bob Dylan. Jimmy LaFave’s version is quite different but just as great. Credit to both artists for their different interpretations which I keep playing and never tire of. Keep writing Bob you’re the greatest.

[@abelhansen]

Your right there will never be another Bob. Abel from australia. Keep safe!!!

[@Fred-q1x]

How is it possible that after listening to Dylan all my life I have only just discovered this masterpiece?

[@Tom-nb2dq]

Keep digging there's a lot of gold there

[@Chapps1941]

@@Fred-q1x I've only just discovered "A Series of Dreams"

[@user-uo6wj9ug6u]

Insane how many fantastic worlds this man can open with just one song. He is truly a poet on the level of the greats of the past.

[@alexobrien4880]

This qualifies as a masterpiece .

[@pamlico53]

Totally agree.

[@maxcecco7910]

Hell yea

[@slimjim4239]

always gets me when he sings - "the sun went down on me a long time ago"

[@patrickeurolingua6896]

Very similar to "Well, the dream dried up a long time ago" "Well, I went back to see about her once" "Now I heard of a guy who lived a long time ago" "Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all" Lines of great nostalgia, regrets, mistakes that can't be changed and the passing of Time with its contradiction of speed and longtivity.

[@Dan_Frechette_Songwriter]

Totally opposite of Elton John.

[@mikechrisman5306]

Been a Dylan fan since 1961. This version of Red River Shore is my all-time favorite Dylan song. Hands-down. Just wow!

[@bobbyd4298]

Fook me Mike 1961, that's amazing, I tip my hat to you sir🎩👏 👏👏

[@blazingchris5048]

Where was Bob in 1961 ?

[@stephiedrown795]

Beautiful, isn't it?.💙

[@tom4v52]

Agree. Amazing that he turned it down for the Time Out of Mind album.

[@citizenabels]

This song is beyond perfection. So many great lines and that bittersweet sound in his voice and from the guys in the band.

[@jerrycoggin9434]

Magic. This tune does not even need to grow on you. Magic from the 1st note.

[@Richard-b4f8b]

When you listen to Dylan, you know everything is going to be all right.

[@samlewis7878]

How could Bob leave a song like this in the can? It's unimaginable.

[@samlewis7878]

This is a great piece of work in traditional Dylan fashion. Wheww!

[@risboturbide9396]

Just like his "Blind Willie McTell" song. Two masterpieces without a real home.

[@chadpittman3025]

We always keep the best for ourselves

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

Thank God he let it out of the can!🎉🎉🎉

[@pocrack5714]

@@risboturbide9396 "Two masterpieces without a real home" is a very dylanesque expression.

[@scottcarlson9913]

God! Where does all that come from? All these years,all those words,all those melodies,all those songs!

[@sterlingceballo4794]

The Holy Spirit

[@marymosser7305]

Ya know, there's just something or maybe someone that keeps me grounded yet connected to the Almighty...it could be the lyrics, it could be the melody but when I listen to this humble man, I just feel part of the plan. Thank you kindly Bob!

[@Rudy.C]

I know. I feel like I understand him and I feel like he understands me, although we've never met. If we met it'd be like "Hey. Hey." And then hang out in his art studio.

[@arthurlfox610]

He's got one foot on earth and the other in the heavenlies. And his heart is in the hilands.

[@dudleygillham2295]

Thank you Michael Avart for recommending me to Bob Dylan some 50 Years ago. I didn’t appreciate it at the time but I did eventually and I’ve loved his music ever since. Bless you Michael wherever you are now. I’m eternally. Grateful.

[@susanflanagan9159]

A beautiful song,he’s a genius the greatest writer ever

[@donmakowichuk9905]

There is just nobody like Bob Dylan! The emotion is just so raw and real.

[@slystone4892]

So raw and so real, and such it hurts.

[@richardcahill1234]

Been a fan of Dylan's for twenty years and I'm still discovering gems I've never of before. This man is infinite.

[@cmscms123456]

The Red River runs through Bossier City LA.... I met a girl there.. sorta like this song, we were in love but this girl was troubled... she asked for time, and went down south. I got orders to Germany, and wasn't there when she returned. A friend told me, he saw her once, she asked about me, he said she seemed happy and cheerful, he told her I had gone overseas and her mood changed to solemn. So this song cuts right to the heart.

[@fernandoaraneguifrancese8711]

When Dylan painted his masterpiece.

[@videoteka100]

One of the most wonderful songs ever just magic

[@kristiansigurdson8416]

Your music's embrace, a soulful space, guiding my life's pace, forever I'll embrace. i love you man

[@GregoryJWalters]

What may a 68 year old fan of Bob Dylan say about this particular Song? Probably in his top 10. In 1974 when Dylan and the band were performing in Dallas Texas I could not go. I had a basketball tournament in Caney Kansas going out from Tulsa oklahoma. But all of my high school classmates went to see Bob Dylan and the band in Dallas 1974. And I had to play a basketball tournament in Caney Kansas. So Mr Bob Dylan thank you so much you've been an inspiration to me throughout most of my adult life. Chapeau!🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@JeffLeidig]

Man's outtakes are better than anyone else's best songs. FFS.

[@mikef2813]

Greatest songwriter of all time.

[@eekowarrior4409]

And interpreter of song too. Not a "technical" singer, but what a vocalist!

[@georgehunter9218]

I can't escape from the memory of the one I'll always adore

[@tomclifford702]

There's something about this. It's called utter genius.

[@marksweet6298]

This song has so many different levels, is expressed beautifully with an economy of words and concise phrasing. The delivery of each word and the backup accompaniment is exquisite. A great song takes you on a trip through the mind and it can be explained how it does. For me, this song does exactly that.

[@geoffparker6956]

I've spent years trying to decipher a vague idea of a meaning of this song. I really have nothing solid just a couple ideas. Was she ever really real or did she die on him? Or is it all a dream or a metaphor for something I've yet to grasp? Help me here.

[@marksweet6298]

@@geoffparker6956 the whole affair with her was all an illusion, but very real in his mind. When he went back, no one remembered them but him. But the illusion was always with him.

[@geoffparker6956]

@@marksweet6298 thank you. I now have a bit of peace with this deal. I grew up on a dairy farm owned by a Sweet family. One of the sweet boys was the reason I got interested in such music and the philosophy of such rabbit hole songs. I usually can't stop the search until I discover some insight as to the intention of the song. My next query and quest is for the song Cat In the Rain by Turnpike Troubadours. ? More insight would need appreciated.

[@peacetrain3320]

I’m pumped! If you’re a Dylan fan like me, you’re streaming all the Dylan music you run across. Now and then you run across gems like this one. I hope this rhythm and this feeling will stick with me forever.

[@heatherjohl2208]

What a lovely song and what a man.. super words.

[@julieswiss1]

💜 ⭐ He masters the language of love. 🌹

[@jakedickerson1273]

An absolute masterpiece

[@VisibleEntertainer]

that last couplet... goddamn. that feeling you get when someone gets you, burns right through to your center and soul like no one else. damn.

[@eekowarrior4409]

Absolutely spot on. Love the atmosphere of the entire song, and then...and then... the final section takes it to another level again. Genius!

[@keithphilo6255]

I have often noted that the worse judge of Dylan music is Dylan himself. How this get left off Time out of Mind It is incredible he has such a cache of classic songs just laying idle. This is a truly beautiful love song, so tenderly offered by our narrator. I just love it ❤. I play it over and over again. Thanks Bob

[@RMT192]

This is Dylan's Homeric heart-blown-to-bits tale.

[@risboturbide9396]

Maaan! Wanted to buy "Tell Tale Signs" for the third time (I've lost this compil twice in my life) just for this song... Now it's on KZbin. About time, folks.

[@mchrisman45]

All you beautiful Dylan fans on this thread owe it to yourselves to see the version of this song by Henry Lim and the Camarade Quartet (four female string players). He’s a nerd, but had the brilliant sense to record these women exactly recreating the heart-wrenching emotional flow of Dylan’s band on Red River Shore. The outro brings tears to my eyes every time.

[@rvliver5725]

Had goosebumps the entire time been so long. Too long. Thanks.

[@whatwouldbrianwilson]

Why did Bob argue with Daniel? This is one of the best Bob songs and performances ever.

[@barbarasouthworth9251]

“ Red River Shore “. This love song is so special. Thank you, Bob Dylan.

[@helenbostock2350]

This is a true love song

[@jameswilliams3241]

The Red runs through my country Oklahoma and has always been special to me.

[@julianmclaurin3405]

I read all of the comments and all I can say is I agree. Thank you, Bob.

[@jakedickerson1273]

This is an insanely good song

[@stevehecht21]

The song is sublime, yes -- but don't neglect to appreciate the exquisite muscians playing with Bob! The song wouldn't be the same without them.

[@husseinnz3733]

Sarah, wife and mother of fhis children, is the girl from the Red River Shore. She is the one who famously advised him to "Go home and lead a quiet life". This song combines wistful reflection and enduring regret at losing her, and is an acknowledgement of her anchoring presence as the only person who ever really knew him - "Sometime I think nobody ever saw me here at all except the girl from the red river shore." and why 'red river'? - that is the (perhaps subliminal) awareness of her soft pink aura. We also get the same image of the river in his 'I threw it all away' on the Nashville Skyline LP. Once I held mountains in the palm of my hand And rivers that ran through every day I must have been mad, I never knew what I had Until I threw it all away. Sos this image of the river is bountiful nourishment enriching life. In Red River Shore Dylan lays his sould bare - it is enough that he created this wonderful reflective peice, slow and measured, with a steady narrative pace unfolding its awareness of his human failing. Truely, a work that only a good soul can produce - whatever his temporal faults from time to time. When a soul is touched by the power of God, it is as though we hear God speaking to us through that soul. Tnhis is what the Greeks understood, and they used the word Chrisma (wish means 'imbued with the Love of God) to express this. Songs like 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'Its allright Ma I'm only bleeding' are examples of inspired writing that comes through him, not from him. Dylan is probaly the only living exxample of the Greek idea that the arts come in pairs - music and dance, drawing and painting, - and interestingly - prophecy and poetry. That is why we look to poetry for aspecial truth - something that comes from deep within. And with Dylan, the breadth of his human feeleing is what enables him to the events and currents around him and distill them into inspiring, moving, illuminating or startling discourses on the milieu of our times. Kia Kaha Bob.....

[@molerun]

I don't have heroes, if you don't know someone you can't really make judgements, but....in the 60s I was buying and listening to Dylan, and in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, continued for the new millennium until this very day and seen him live too. His output and quality has to be unique as is his effect on his listeners. Dylan has become a fixture in so many lives as this song among so many others demonstrate.

[@joebunda9643]

How can many masterpieces can one man have? I try not to think in terms of ‘best this’ or ‘best that’ when it comes to artists… but there really can be no doubt that he’s one of, if not THE greatest lyricist/songwriter(s) ever. That this song is an outtake is just mind-blowing! This is right up there with Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.. another of my many ‘favorite’ Dylan masterpieces.

[@frostyfrances4700]

My favorite Dylan song is always the one he's singing at the moment.

[@sterlingceballo4794]

Many more to come in 20 years

[@Bob_Cats]

This song is soooo beautiful ❤ This is my first time listening 🎶😢❤

[@1970yuval]

The greatest writer of our generation❤ Extraordinary writing and performance, every time you listen to it you discover new depths

[@corneliakapelinski]

"Tell tale signs " is a compilation for the Gourmets, all arrangements are delicious, and "Red River Shore" is so fine with the accordeon it nearly envelops you in the gentle wind of a summer breeze

[@HelianaSuper]

Yes, Cornelia!😘

[@johnskiotis5492]

I'm so thankful that most of Bob's "unreleased" gems are now ours.

[@BDB78]

Ol Zimmy can cause a grown man to weep. What a song! Up there with Boots of Spanish Leather, Live Minus Zero, Ballad in Plain D, the list can go on. A talent such as his is mind boggling. A true poet.

[@steveharris5008]

outstanding as per usual; but especially so since I've never heard this before; once again, fucken outstanding...

[@tsew1ng]

wow bob. i shed a tear. this is absolutely-magnificently beautiful.

[@leomichaelzzz7296]

In Terms Of Lyrics And Its Beauty, In This Whole Universe, Bob Dylan's Is Beyond Compare

[@helenbostock2350]

This fan find comfort in this song

[@MrJohnA125]

I find the gradual build up of the instruments facinating then to end with the accordian verse fantastic. His best song i've discovered. Although only a couple of months ago ive listened to it dozens times since, Magic. If you have a C harmonica you can play along with him :-)

[@briandonovan8792]

Iv got hundreds of his recordings it amazed me I still hear a record iv never heard before

[@julianmclaurin3405]

Please Bob don't keep such wonderful music a secret. You had to know how much we would love it. I'm still a working on my first one hundred Times to hear this.

[@paramjitbrar7450]

Voice of American soul!!

[@nooneelseguy]

I've listened to Dylan since the early 60's and I keep coming back to this song. Its like an unrequited love song but moves into another dimension-another reality. It has the timelessness of an Irish ballad mixed with a dose of Carlos Castaneda. A most beautiful and inspired song.

[@billinawe]

Love Bob Dylan but this is the first time I’ve heard this. Just superb ❤️

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

He knew how to bring em on back to life ! Love it!

[@shanefrench2198]

Echoing so many comments here. Just can not believe the material Bob has left on the cutting room floor! Time Out of Mind could have easily been a double album of wall to wall classics. Not to mention the offcuts from Oh Mercy. Just mind blowing. Imagine being in the room going through the tracklisting for Time Out Of Mind when Bob said "nah, don't wanna put Red River Shore or Dreamin' of You on the album"... I would have fainted in shock!

[@Richard-b4f8b]

She gave me the best advice she told me to go home and lead a quite life🎉

[@peterhemar]

Quiet

[@OldDocSilver]

Even that short line. Hits home to me. Don’t know who she was or where she disappeared to but she took a piece of my heart. that was 62 years ago She said I love you but you’ll never see me again. I never did.

[@jackyvanhal9514]

Surely a masterpiece, sung beautiful.

[@wespenre3418]

One of the most emotional songs you've made, Bob--at least in my opinion. The melody is beautiful, the lyrics full of imagery and emotional impact. Upon that, a very vulnerable voice performance. This is brilliant. Also love the late Jimmy LaFave's version.

[@yamapenny5960]

BOB DYLAN, you are my shelter in the storm...in the world...🎩🎵

[@blazingchris5048]

Best song I heard in years ...

[@jannordelius7464]

something in the melody reminds me of the haunting sadness in "dry Lightning" by Springsteen......I think Dylans mastery with the lyrics sometimes make us forget about all the wonderful melodies he has created....sometimes so seemingly simple and even repetetive.....but yet so captivating

[@peterbjerregaard8424]

Dylan and Springsteen. The poets in my life. I love them.

[@henryheikkinen7978]

Incredible to hear the 'Time Out of Mind' outtakes, both from 'Tell Tale Signs' and 'The Bootleg Series, Vol 17' This song was not on the album release in 1997 - since it was recorded in the same sessions the feel and storytelling is similar. Traveling to a location, reflecting over the past, interrupted love. Each line is absolute mastery And the frozen smile upon my face These lyrics have the imagery of both the cold North Country and as a state of shock at being separated from love so suddenly and permanently. It is fun to link the accordion recorded here in 1996-1997 to the accordion in the Bob Dylan 2012 release of the 'Tempest' album.

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

This is the most romantic song Ive ever heard🎉🎉🎉Cant stop listening to it!🎉

[@peelermac]

I like Dylan's singing and the story is fascinating.

[@HelianaSuper]

One of my wonderful favourite Bob Dylan' songs.... I feel myself that girl....💖💖

[@RMT192]

Well, I wish I could spend every hour of my life with you. I hope you don't break my heart too.

[@HelianaSuper]

@@RMT192 😄😄Oh, my God... this is so impossible as that Red River Shore' girl...🖤🖤

[@RMT192]

@@HelianaSuper Well you must have broken a heart pretty bad to 'feel yourself that girl', but you don't have to break mine Wherever Girl. 😄❤

[@slystone4892]

One of my favourites songs of his. It hurts a lot, for me it’s about the passing of time.

[@helenbostock2350]

Sleep out side in the wilderness for me is a great thing in life. To feel the energy of the element around you don't feel lonely

[@originalsynthesist2268]

I love this and "Can't Escape from You." The pathos in some of the vocal lines are amazing.

[@adandap]

This is just perfect from go to whoa. The instrumental play out is sublime.

[@kerrybindon940]

Just as this Nobel poet sings he us trapped in the fires of times and has tried to stay out if the life of crime for as his muse so beautifully tells us, tells ...life is divine.

[@HelianaSuper]

This is the most beautiful love song writen for Bob Dylan! It seems so true, so real... And this accordion' sound is perfect to the theme and character...😍

[@bollykecks]

Yes, it's one of his masterpieces, Heliana! I adore this song so much that I come back to this video every few days. But in terms of my favourite love song(s) by Bob, it's still a runner-up to 'Love Minus Zero' and 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands'. The quality of Bob's songwriting is just too high...

[@HelianaSuper]

@@bollykecks Hello, Bollykecks! Yes! And I have an especial reason for to love this song... That song Sad-Eyed Lady of the lowlands is very very sad... And Love minus zero, speak about an ideal love but provoke a shock in our mind when finish: "My love she's like some raven At my window with a broken wing."😁 So, I prefer this wonderful Red River Shore. I like to dream I am that girl...😁Hugs!😘

[@bollykecks]

@@HelianaSuper OK, I understand - but I kinda like how Bob breaks the 'ideal' love in 'Love Minus Zero' with the last lines. 'If not for you' is the song I wish somebody would sing to/about me. Also one of Bob's masterpieces. On some days, I simply need to watch the Concert for Bangladesh soundcheck video with this song and bathe in the friendship between George and Bob and everything is alright...

[@HelianaSuper]

@@bollykecks Hello, Bollykecks! Yes. The breaking of the ideal love in Love minus zero is shocking because, a raven with a broken wing is a literay figure very impacting. Who would take care that poor and ugly bird?😁Well... Bob, certainly...😄. If not for you, really is a soft love song and the love is like we imagine: a true love... I finished to see the video with Bob and George singing together... and I missed George. I love Bob Dylan and I love the Beatles too. I loved to listen to them all Fryday in my litle battery radio, when i was young. Thank you for direct me to that video. Hugs!😘

[@bollykecks]

@@HelianaSuper Hi Heliana! Yeah, I love the Beatles, too...and George 💕 is my favourite of the Fab Four. And I love that George was a big fan of Bob's - just like we are. I miss George, too. The way George and Bob smile at each other during that soundcheck is so heartwarming. George had a beautiful spirit - and he made Bob happy...sigh...

[@doncar9]

A giant.

[@bollykecks]

Just listened to this lovely song this morning before work. Great to find out shortly later that it is now also available officially here.

[@stevewilson6017]

If I listened to the song,I would not fancy work ! Just a downbeat bar and a bottle of JD ! Remembering lost love.

[@dylan11558]

Love can change your life...but not always for the better.

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

Always for the better🎉🎉🎉

[@julianmclaurin3405]

Better to have Love's and lost is not always the truth

[@paulmancini3363]

My Favorite Bootleg Release … So many great Songs and Stories in this Release .. The later day Dylan Catalogue is as good as it gets, more levels and with the perspective of time , which just adds depth to the Lyrics, Ambience and Song’s

[@helenbostock2350]

The way I find truth is. Then you take an idea to its final solution. You get my measure. Bless your family

[@stevewilson6017]

Just discovered this song/version.Wow, real tears !

[@helenbostock2350]

What I want you to remember is truth and I can be true to love x

[@maggiebryan2355]

I just love this song can't how loft of an album

[@olgabasoski9417]

GRAND Sound and Singing❣️🌺❣️🎶💥😍🌷Beautiful Music too. Thank youu Bob Dylan❣️🌺

[@corneliakapelinski]

The beautiful power of that song brings all back to life

[@mejbarron]

This one of the very best - most totally perfect - recordings ever made. I but it in a class with Boots of Spanish Leather in that soon like a song composed in an earlier time by some other artist.

[@kenkunz1428]

Man, that's a great song!

[@RosettaAbatematteo]

Totally wholeheartedly agree with you

[@helenbostock2350]

I believe that I had a past life sadly I didn't owe the world or be faithful. It was honestly the dream I saw. I reached abult hood in this one.

[@lysblomsten]

I am well aware of syncronity all around me, in my life, and today its a day where i have to lay down a dream, cry over it and let go of it... And finally get over it. Its really hard to do.... And then a song like this come and visit me. It makes it somehow more easier... and more beautifull i guess. Thank you Mister Dylan.

[@martinlewis2998]

Great Timeless work not heard it till today 👍

[@melodyhannabuffet6569]

Bobby, thank you for all your songs that seem so pertinent to my existence in this world. You are definitely a blessing to me, as well as others. ❤️💋🙊🙉🙈⚒️

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

I like Bob Dylan's music very much, I love his storytelling, Bob had the mind of an ancient fat-traveled Wiseman from way back in time since when he was just a boy and Bob has carried on providing us with his great wisdom ever since, Bob has got God and all the angles and saints on his side

[@daniellefrack8756]

Bob dylan ❤….vraiment jolie à écouter …on l’adore🌸

[@HelianaSuper]

I am here again,, listening this lovely masterpiece I love...💖💖

[@danfate6862]

Beautiful song. ❤️