Thread · 6 songs
From Goodbye Jimmy Reed
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1929Late Renaissance
1 of 6High Water Everywhere
Charley Patton
Same theme as High Water (For Charley Patton): Dylan dedicated his flood song to Patton, whose own blues chronicled the 1927 Mississippi flood.
↓ 12 years later
1941Greenwich Village
2 of 61913 Massacre
Woody Guthrie
Lent its tune to Song to Woody: Dylan set his tribute to Woody Guthrie to the melody of Guthrie's own "1913 Massacre".
↓ 21 years later
1962Greenwich Village
3 of 6Song to Woody
Bob Dylan
Same theme as Goodbye Jimmy Reed: Nearly sixty years apart, both pay tribute to a musical hero by name.
↓ 39 years later
2001Late Renaissance
4 of 6High Water (For Charley Patton)
"Love and Theft"
Same theme as The Levee’s Gonna Break: Both draw on the Delta blues written about the great Mississippi flood of 1927.
↓ 5 years later
2006Late Renaissance
5 of 6The Levee’s Gonna Break
Modern Times
Same theme as High Water (For Charley Patton): Both draw on the Delta blues written about the great Mississippi flood of 1927.