The first person I
ever heard sing Bob Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” was Joan Baez. She was giving
a concert at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and I was visiting
my friend Gretchen
Pullen (who introduced me to that other Dylan, Thomas.) Her mother drove us
to the campus and picked us up afterward.
I’m not sure why this
one song was the one that stuck with me for all these years, but I’ve just
always loved its easy-going pace and quasi-nonsensical verbiage.
This version is a
collaboration between Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin and Rosanne Cash,
from the 1992 Dylan 30th Anniversary concert. They are just perfect
for singing it.
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