I SHALL BE RELEASED

Created on 08/03/2003
Latest update on 20/02/2024

Artist: Bob Dylan
Author: Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia
Year: 1967

Failed to meet the deadline of his John Wesley Harding lp. This Basement tape with the second voice of Richard Manuel first came out on The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3, in '14 on The Complete Basement Tapes (Bootleg Series Vol 11). His official version (with Happy Traum) came out in '71 on Greatest Hits - Vol. II.

Covers:

1968:

Marc Ellington [two months before The Band; single on Philips; it's not unusual for Basement Tapes stuff to be first released in Britain, see Mighty Quinn and Wheel's On Fire]

1968:

Band [on Music From Big Pink; lead vocal: Richard Manuel]

1968:

Hamilton Camp

1968:

Joan Baez

1968:

Peter, Paul & Mary

1968:

Tremeloes

1969:

Big Mama Thornton

1969:

Box Tops

1969:

Heptones

1969:

Joe Cocker

1969:

Hollies

1969:

Miriam Makeba

1969:

Nina Simone

1969:

Pearls Before Swine

1970:

Rick Nelson

1971:

Elvis Presley ['informal recording']

1972:

Telly Savalas

1972:

Youngbloods

1973:

Bette Midler

1973:

I-Roy [as Black Man Time]

1973:

Marmalade

1974:

Earl Scruggs

1974:

Keith Hudson

1974:

Rod McKuen

1977:

Tom Robinson Band [B-side of 2-4-6-8 Motorway]

1978:

Jacob Miller

1979:

Secret Police [with Sting, Bob Geldof, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck for Amnesty International, version inspired by The Heptones]

1980:

Happy Traum

1983:

Drukwerk [as Niemand Wint]

1983:

Freek de Jonge & Frank Grasso Big Band [as Eens Zal Het Licht Hier Schijnen on an Amnesty International tribute album]

1988:

Flying Burrito Brothers

1992:

Chrissie Hynde [on Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration]

1992:

Jerry Garcia

1993:

Jeff Buckley

1993:

Terrance Simien

1997:

Paul Weller [in film Hollow Reed]

2000:

Gov't Mule

2000:

Aaron Neville

2000:

Walter Trout

2006:

Jack Johnson

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