Bob Dylan - I Can't Leave Her Behind - One of His Best Unreleased Songs [RESTORED AUDIO]
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- Photo by Charles Steiner ©1966. Many thanks to this legendary photographer for graciously allowing me to use his photo for the cover art. Find his work at www.charliesteiner.com/.
Here is one of the many gems in Dylan's treasure trove of unreleased, unfinished, unpolished, but nonetheless immaculate creations. There's something about this recording that makes me feel like I'm melting.
Some background: During the infamous 1966 European Tour, in which Dylan traveled with The Hawks (later becoming The Band), guitarist Robbie Robertson would usually jam with Dylan in various hotel rooms in between concerts, helping him work out half-baked compositions. Luckily, legendary filmmaker DA Pennebaker managed to capture some of these moments. This piece was recorded at the North British Station Hotel (now the Millennium Hotel) in Glasgow, Scotland, along with three other works in progress; follow the link below to listen to the full session. In my opinion, however, this one is the best of the lot.
I believe the words to this song were improvised on the spot, with perhaps some kind of general blueprint of the vibe. This would make sense, as the words are certainly not up to par with circa 1966 Dylan. It's funny to me, though, that even ad-libbed Dylan lyrics trump that of most of his contemporaries. In that sense, this recording is a testament to Dylan's creative brilliance and efficient songwriting ability.
This is an edit of the original recording (which you can hear below). On the source tape, Dylan and Robertson pause many times to work out the chord progression. I edited these pauses out to create a more complete, polished track. I also upgraded the sound using professional studio software. Hope you enjoy the final product.
If you'd like to hear more of this session:
Full Glasgow Sessions: • Bob Dylan Jamming With...
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Peace & Love,
~SP
Bob’s throwaways are anyone else’s gold.
Awesome
Exactly, dude was a wizard and powerhouse in the early 60s damn … I think he was pretty strung out by late 60s and through the 70s
@@Lousasshol lol
@@Lousasshol his mid 70s stuff was some of the most powerful music ever written. You’re a liar. It’s not true.
honestly, this is better than quite a few his keepers. I really like it.
“Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff”
Yes, this handsome young squire has got some fine bootleg whisky 🥃 in his hand here. 😂
I think what's most interesting about this track is the way he is delivering the vocals; it sounds totally unlike anything from Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61. He's really serenading here.
Completely agree with you ! The music style is also very different of what he did during this era. An additional proof of Dylan's great creativity, continuously exploring new things !
I think it’s sort of similar to Just Like A Woman
Royal Albert hall version
Tell me ‘Bob Dylan can’t sing’ and I’ll point you towards the phrasing at 2:30. Unbelievable
sounds sorta blonde on blonde before he had the real boys learn it
This made today worth living.
Damn right
💘
truth
Sure. This was that days meditation and I ain't got the blues just the waft of her hair I got my country and my drugs you got yours... I think you know the rest...
Preach
Only Dylan could discard a track like this 😀
the beatles discarded hey bull dog.
bowie discarded sweet head.
@@brianwolle2509 How did they discard Hey Bulldog? It appeared the year it was recorded on Yellow Submarine. Regardless, there's no comparison. Dylan has dozens upon dozens of outstanding songs that for whatever reason didn't make it to albums, the the Beatles didn't. Correct me if I'm wrong.
So true.
@@Anthony-hu3rj apparently Yellow Submarine doesn't count. I mean it was of lesser importance but that's a tad harsh.
He sang just fine when he wanted to, at this point anyway. You can hear the '66 acoustic Just Like A Woman chords & progression in this as well. Fantastic.
Gosh what a Beautiful song ,you are peace for me in this world today ,you have always been there for each of us ,you please take care of yourself we love and care for you
This hopeless romantic is just the best
I'm so proud it has taken me this many years to find this gem in the rough, and to feel this excited about an old toss out is youthful refreshment
What a gift
As comforting as a fireplace
Not in Arizona today. Ha ho he.
I’ve have thousands of Dylan bootlegs and unreleased recordings. I’ve never heard this. It’s beautiful.
Where do you find all his bootlegs and unreleased recordings?
Any the general public hasn’t heard?
@@wangoito6789 When they started uncovering the Basement Tapes it was massive. More than most knew and it took 40 years. It is the holy grail..
Of course this one is not there if my comment was confusing.
When I was younger there were things called ‘vines’. I would trade with people in Japan, India, Netherlands, wherever. You would pass a package of 10-20 shows, burn them for yourself and pass them on to the next person on trust. It was a beautiful thing. You had to make effort.
This is the subtle Dylan magic they talk about
dylan knows the old art of storytelling - mankind's oldest art - from the scratch. the way, he melts together melodic nuances and microscopic rhythmic particles to a tale that has a flow and casts a magic spell upon the listener makes him an absolutely singular storyteller. when he was awarded the nobel prize for literature, i was very happy for dylan.
a skill derived from listening to the harry smith anthology of american folk music....
@@direwolf6234 Partly yes but agreed
@@jamesproffitt4868 i refer you to the greil marcus book 'invisible republic'...
Yes,,,,, Indeed...excellent Klaus...I couldn't have said it better. RIGHT ARM...!!!
Gut erklärt.
I've seen so many fragments of this tune over the years. The editing on this particular video is downright phenomenal. You've scraped up Dylan's scraps and sown together something tantamount to a studio recording. This is something really special, something to treasure.
Mother Father of all creation our creators is here in physical flesh❤ 🎉 😊 and playing this song to reach you! please phone home in these urgent moments mom and dad love you and have been your life support. Love to meet you❤🎉 Luna
The burning hand of the muse was upon the man.
It's a bit spooky really, what flowed through and from him in that period.
Well said, lad, well put.
Anthony - Funny you should describe him like that - as in one of my dreams about Dylan I saw the image of a hand of fire inside a suitcuff - the hand's index finger was pointing ahead as it floated over a road and Dylan and a whole bunch of people were following it . . .
another dream of Dylan he and I were lying a four poster brass bed and he said 'you got it you just need some publicity' just then there was an earthquake and I grabed my packpack and jumped out the window. I've had quite a few dreams of Dylan and I'm sure many people have - expecially song writers - wouldn't it be interesting to have a book of the dreams people have had of him?
@@DagaanGalakticos
An interesting dream about the hand of fire, Bob Dylan following down the road. Thanks for sharing! I would never think that I'd be sharing a Bob Dylan dream, but hell, might as well. This is from my dream notebook in 1995. "I and others meet Bob Dylan. He asks me specifically to go home with him. It sounds sexual but isn't. I don't want to hurt my two (women?) companions but I don't ask Bob to have them over too. Bob's room has unfinished sheet-rocked walls. Also, his house has other buildings in it. His house has a dome over it. We remember having seen the dome but didn't know what was under it. Then there is a sky in his house. But his room has a large unfinished, permanently unfinished wall. And speakers … He is very lonely. He wants me to comfort him. He wants me specifically to come back later and comfort him."
His house has other buildings in it
And there is a sky in his house
But his room has a large unfinished
Permanently unfinished wall
@@Anthony-hu3rj Hi Anthony. Wow - the symbolism in your dream is manifold. Do you know that in his house in Malibu Beach has either a dome or a pyramid of copper for a roof? I think Dylan is lonely beyond belief even tho I don't think he's elitist or anti social. I would almost assume he's a heroin addict except that he remembers all the words to some of his most complicated songs and performs them still. Another dream I had was of he and his wife sitting on a grassy slope watching an Indianapolis 500 type car race. I probably wrote all my dreams of him down over the decades but can't think of any more. Maybe you have some aspect of your character that really would offer companionship to him. Extraordinary thing for him to specifically ask for your company. Aloha.
I can easily hear "You're A Big Girl Now" in there....as it travels down the road in his head
Totally
Yes, I hear that.
And also. Just Like A Woman !
Agreed
@@TonyWhite22351 I heard it too a pre just like a woman
In the English-speaking workd, Dylan is regarded mainly as a wordsmith;
to the rest of the world who catch only a word or two here and there
he is considered as a gifted melodist and phrasing master vocalist. This is one stellar example.
Snippets of this melody would turn up again in "You're A Big Girl Now" from the hallowed Blood On The Tracks.
This was apparently recorded in a hotel in Glasgow that I’ve walked by so many times, next time I’m going inside
what hotel is it ?
The Bellgrove?
Makes you really think about how much music is out there from all the legendary artists that we have never heard.
Only makes me think of Dylan’s unheard tracks tbh. He’s in a category all by himself.
Im 39 years old, as a young child my father gave me a copy of, "Oh, Mercy" for Christmas, I must have been around 7 or 8 years old. The year before I asked for a Walkman and I guess he noticed how much I enjoyed music since I used it more than any toy I ever had. I heard this sing a few days ago for the first time and I have played it so many times again since. It reminds me of a girl I knew when I was around the same age I was when I got the Walkman, though I haven't seen her in years, I have never left her behind. Something about a certain type of sadness in the heart is nostalgic and also the only remnants left of something that meant so much to an individual. She will always be my first love, maybe the only love.
A toast to that memory forever entwined in your heart
if you see her maybe say hello :)
@@ike1185 nah, she's in Tangiers. Ain't going there, he'd sooner leave her behind....
@@wanderer299a aw :,)
So beautifully written, especially love the last few lines. It could be written into a song, (of course with minor chords).
"I haven't seen her in years. I have never left her behind
Something about a certain type of sadness in the heart is nostalgic,
And also the only remnants left of something that meant so much to me
as an individual.
She will always be my first love, maybe the only love...."
By Gabe Hunter
Knowing it to be from a building I walk past regularly makes this treasure that wee bit more special.
In his beautiful way of singing he reminds me of sweet George. Love both with all my heart.❤🌹🙏
yes, i had the same thought! 🥰
The greatest song writer of all time. A magician with words Made my day
I have always been a big fan of "Bobby's voice" and thru the many decades I continually enjoy his "ART"
If I may be so bold, good Tom, those inverted commas are rather incongruous to the reader, a little unsettling even... one might even say unnecessary being as Bobby's voice is just that, Bobby's voice, and Bobby's art is just that, his art. Mmm.
This makes me feel the samd way i felt when I heard “Im not there”
This is indeed one of his best tunes. Tracks like this and Dark Eyes make me wish he had more released tracks of him just playing around for fun.
It blows my mind when I consider he's probably had the fragments of tens of thousands of brilliant songs pass through that brain and the one's that made it to tape are just products of circumstance and the limits of time. We're incredibly blessed to have as much of it recorded as we do.
Thank you! Dark eyes is my favorite dylan song
That’s Nashville skyline for ya
I close my eyes and he's in the room.
Singing just for us.
I put on the 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert and believe that I am there live, just close my eyes and feel all of it , sometimes its too much to feel and makes me wanna cry .powerful stuff
Floating in a blue sky to this song
oh wow you have blue skies!???
His voice is so beautiful on this
I wish there was a “ official bootleg series of unfinished “ Bob songs…
Thanks for sharing this with the world 🌎
Mother Father of all creation our creators is here in physical flesh❤ 🎉 😊 and playing this song to reach you! please phone home in these urgent moments mom and dad love you and have been your life support. Love to meet you❤🎉 Luna
Columbia will want the money eventually don't worry
thank you for posting this. made my day.
Where she leads me I do not know
Well, she leads me where she goes
I can't find her nowhere
Well, she needs me here
All aware I can't hear her walk
I just cannot hear her talk
Though sometimes, you know you will
And when she comes my way
I'll just be left any night or day
I will hear her say
That I don't wanna try
I tried, also cried
But I can't leave her behind
Bob Dylan and Swinging Pig at the height of their respective talents. I feel blessed by both.
What a gem! 😮 Wow! Never heard this before!
The fantastic voice of a young Dylan seduces half the people of the world. What's the other half doing? Maybe are they sleeping? This song is pure gold!!
Yes really sounds improved..the young Bob is dreaming and all are invited to take part..what a gift
💝
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
Bob leaving us speechless again … 💓
I always keep forgetting about this recording then stumble upon it and it's as if I heard for the first time all over. This is my favorite Dylan recording ever. Its Shakespearean
This took my breath away . Sweet n soft like velvet wings on a dove 🕊 fills me up with love 💘 Absolutely Beautiful 💞
Reminds me of my 2 Angels 1 passed at 33 and my earth angel Aaron I luv and miss u both ❤❤❤
It's so beautiful that it brings tears to my eyes.
Yet another beautiful gem that was never released. This one's like a preview of what was to come a few years later on Nashville Skyline.
Dylan needs to add this to his Bootleg Series, honestly. Great work!
It's on the deluxe edition of whatever bootleg covers Blonde on Blonde. #12 I think?
Mother Father of all creation our creators is here in physical flesh❤ 🎉 😊 and playing this song to reach you! please phone home in these urgent moments mom and dad love you and have been your life support. Love to meet you❤🎉 Luna
Mother Father of all creation our creators is here in physical flesh❤ 🎉 😊 and playing this song to reach you! please phone home in these urgent moments mom and dad love you and have been your life support. Love to meet you❤🎉 Luna
I can't even believe I'm hearing this, with the way it be making me feel
Shades of I’m Not There! Bob was and is a Never Ending Fountain of Music.
This is surely a sketch of I’m not there
Some people doing what they like to do, fills up the space of what's missing, well enough, for the rest of us...not so sure of what it is we like to do...
So beautiful. If Bob had got around to finishing this it could well have been one of his finest songs. Thank you for this finely polished version.
Dylan's voice is in great form in this recording. Also striking is the guitar work by Robbie Robertson, which perfectly complements this song. This recording provides some insight into how the two musicians developed such a close creative bond. Too bad the two of them didn't record more songs like this with just two guitars.
It is a song that makes you fall in love with just being alive
CZcams...was invented, just for this track. A gem. In the rough. To wear proudly on ones shoulder, where the eye can hear it well, and the ear can see it clearly. Only Dylan...could make the eye hear, and the ear see. It is 1966...in 2021 again. Just. Like. That. ☀️
Well said Babe
Best tune ever
Beautiful, like the cousin companion of "Just Like a Woman"...
As the shooting star that is Dylan, begins its ascent across the sky........I had such a sad day and listening to this is salve for my soul. Thank you so much.
Hang in there, bud.
A real amalgamation of songs to come. There’s elements of Blood on the Tracks, especially Big Girl Now as well as songs from blonde on Blonde including 4th time around, Sad Eyed Lady is hiding somewhere in the back ground and a touch of Your Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. Why have one song when you can make several others from it? Incredible as always!
My exact thoughts while listening!!!!!!!
This the best version to find of this recording anywhere. Thank you so much swingin pig. This is the best CZcams channel of all time!
Guy does some truly amazing work
...in some ways
it's th ONLY CZcams channel.
...if it ain't th best
it's a damn close second.
I have a large number of Ďylan bootlegs but I have not heard this one. Very melodious. It is a gem of a song. Thanks SP for this
This is magic.
The internet may have been created by the military-industrial complex for very nefarious reasons and it may have made our lives miserable and confusing beyond all belief…but the fact that it has allowed this edit to happen and be shared makes it all worth it.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Ill always have the memory of seeing my brother listening to Dylan while he laid on his back on the front lawn looking up at the clouds. I played Dylan on my record player using an extention cord, and told him he just had to listen. And he did. 1966. Miss you John
There’s a brilliant song just waiting to burst out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I love this ad libbed gem, but what a shame that he didn’t carry it on through to an officially released recording. It’s got lots of emotion in there.
If this Dylan guy keeps it up he may just be the next big thing.
😂. My mother said back in the 60’s that he wouldn’t last because he couldn’t sing. Then I left NY and moved to Berkeley, CA. 😂
Absolutely gorgeous. Back in pre-historic times, I dubbed to cassette the snatches hear on a rough VHS copy of Eat the Document that then circulated. It was so obvious that this was one of Bob's prettiest melodies and that it needed (and still needs) official release. The Dylan camp should be smart and issue this version as a single or something,
Which is my way of saying, you done good. Beyond good. Many thanks.
One of Dylan's greatest "lost" songs. We are lucky that, one way or another, so many of the gems that could have been truly lost have been preserved and restored and are heard. Ever since he arrived in NYC over 60 years ago, people knew they were in the presence of an extraordinary figure.
Why was this never released?? THIS IS AMAZING! This is classic Dylan beyond!
Whew! Beautiful song, beautiful blue sleeve. How'd that happen if the song was never finished?
And am I the only one hearing this song as a precursor to "You're A Big Girl Now"?
I can hear "You're a big girl now" in this song.
🚫🍼💯😊
👍😊🎸
I also hear just like a woman...but I think maybe he already wrote that by this point
True!
Swingin’ this a complete treasure and so visceral to me! It is as soft as velvet and as refreshing as water from a spring fountain.
You did a great edit to achieve such continuity! Thank you so much for this!🤍
so nicely expressed, nissi! 💘😘
Its one the most refreshing things I've heard today!
HELLO
Beautiful! Can't quite make out the words, but if my past 43 years are still part of me, I will listen to this song over and over again until it becomes part of my inner repertoire.
Thank god this got recorded.
capital 'G'.
THANK YOU
dear SP, you're an art curator, a restorer of a prophet; I thank you deeply for all of this!!
This song will always remind me of her
SP - Speechless - Many thx!
Sounds like an early version of You're a Big Girl Now
“ How many treasures like this are hidden in the woods by the great Dylan?” And some say he can’t sing haha. Wow, what a wonderful song, beautifully sung by a complete and unique artist in his writing and delivery. Thanks for sharing this gem 💎
Vintage acoustic Dylan. Thanks. Absolutely sublime. Ever the inordinately talented artist, then as now. Never lost it. Even if he thought he did.
Anyone know who the "her" is/was? Who was Bob's muse?
This could be the “B” side of the Ionic “Blowing in theWind” recording…. so beautiful, sung so tenderly and sweet, Thank you😎
His voice 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
hi beatlesfan28 thanks for the important message 💯💯
I have always loved the short version i heard. This totally made my day. I'll be going to sleep with a smile.
keep coming back to it… :/
''Exquisitely tender vocal'' says it.
First hearing. Good old Zimmy.❤
Is this a Beauty..? Questions: no questions!
Thank you Swingin’ 🌹👌
Thank you Dylan🌺❣️🌹🌷
you can hear 'just like a woman' is just around the corner
I SAW
BOB IN NYC WITH ANDY 2 YRS AGO B EFORE MY SON PASSED 2 MONTH LATER THANK U Aaron luv mom
The golden song from eat the document. Been wanting to know this for a long time.
Those blues
Thanks so much for this. I used to replay this part of the Dylan/Robertson video for hours.
I HAVE LOOKED FOR THIS FOR YEARS.... Thank you, truly!
Where she leads me I do not know
Donde ella me guía, no lo sé
Well, she leads me where she goes
Bueno, ella me lleva a donde ella va
I can't find her nowhere
No puedo encontrarla en ninguna parte
Well, she needs me here
Bueno, ella me necesita aquí
All aware I can't hear her walk
Todo consciente de que no puedo oír su caminar
I just cannot hear her talk
Simplemente no puedo oírla hablar
Though sometimes, you know you will
Aunque a veces, sabes que lo harás
And when she comes my way
Y cuando ella viene por mi camino
I'll just be left any night or day
Simplemente me quedaré, ya sea de noche o de día
I will hear her say
La escucharé decir
That I don't wanna try
Que no quiero intentarlo
I tried, also cried
Intenté, también lloré
But I can't leave her behind
Pero no puedo dejarla atrás
The genius of Dylan was perfectly magnified by the guitar of Robertson ! Great job SP!
i love this, i havent heard the bridge properly before!
bob, please don`t leave me behind....
*I Can't Leave Her Behind*
And I just can’t roam you, to tell the truth I should come to this hotel
Where she leads me I do not know
Well, she leads me where she goes
I can’t find her nowhere
Whenever she comes by
It makes me hurt to see her cry
I just can’t hide
But I know her so well
But I can’t leave her behind
[Dylan: This is the bridge]
Now you might think it’s foolish
[Dylan: Now it's G]
To be this way and I can’t say to her
And you might think it’s ugly to go back to her directly
But I can’t hide, it do not mind to me
Well, she leads me here
All aware, I just can’t hear her walk
I just can’t hear her talk
Though, sometimes, you know, you will
And when she comes my way
I’ll just be left any night or day
I will hear her say
That I don’t wanna try
I tried, also cried
But I can’t leave her behind
[Robertson: Oh, I see the form]
And I go many times out of my way
I just hope you’ll hear me say
That I can’t find it true
What evidence that I'd find
If I don’t make it and you do
I will swear to you
That if you don’t
Cry, try, to ride the sign
That I left her behind
[Roberton: To the bridge
Dylan: Ah?
Roberton: Bridge]
Now she hear her walk
Back when I was young
And you, any time, but I just can’t
She knows she’s the one
And she’s still here from
And when I hurt for you
More than I hurt for anyone
All my hurt comes from some I just rode
I swear I’d trade to you
The whole wide world if you’d want
Take it and I can’t help it
But I try to tell to you
That I just can’t leave her behind
This is an absolute masterpiece
Awesome Dylan
This is real special thank you SP. Don’t think I’ve ever heard his voice sound so tender. How has this not been included on any bootleg release?!
Not one dislike. Brilliant.
Yeah, there's one dislike now, but even that's good. Of course there will be more as time goes on, it was just the first time I can remember without a dislike. I have a video of Bob and Robbie singing On a rainy afternoon. It's Only a minute and a half long. I have it on a memory card. I must of downloaded it a while back, before all this copyright laws came in.
Beautiful
😍
A star was born in a young man Bob Dylan All those years ago and still is today
Heroic.
So lovely.
Bob, oh Bob, beauty created, in those years of madness, when the outer world was trying to keep up, you managed to stay close to your innerself, and create miniatures like this.