Bob Dylan, explored

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From High Water (For Charley Patton)

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    1929Late Renaissance
    1 of 6

    High 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.

  2. ↓ 33 years later

    1962Greenwich Village
    2 of 6

    Song to Woody

    Bob Dylan

    Same theme as Goodbye Jimmy Reed: Nearly sixty years apart, both pay tribute to a musical hero by name.

  3. ↓ 13 years later

    1975Blood on the Tracks
    3 of 6

    Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)

    The Basement Tapes

    Same theme as The Levee’s Gonna Break: Both take the old blues picture of a levee giving way as a sign that trouble is coming for everyone.

  4. ↓ 26 years later

    2001Late Renaissance
    4 of 6

    High Water (For Charley Patton)

    "Love and Theft"

    Where you started.

  5. ↓ 5 years later

    2006Late Renaissance
    5 of 6

    The 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.

  6. ↓ 14 years later

    2020Rough and Rowdy
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    Goodbye Jimmy Reed

    Rough and Rowdy Ways

    Same theme as Song to Woody: Nearly sixty years apart, both pay tribute to a musical hero by name.