Bob Dylan, explored

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From The Levee’s Gonna Break

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  1. Start here

    1929Late Renaissance
    1 of 5

    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. ↓ 46 years later

    1975Blood on the Tracks
    2 of 5

    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.

  3. ↓ 26 years later

    2001Late Renaissance
    3 of 5

    High 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.

  4. ↓ 5 years later

    2006Late Renaissance
    4 of 5

    The Levee’s Gonna Break

    Modern Times

    Where you started.

  5. ↓ 14 years later

    2020Rough and Rowdy
    5 of 5

    Goodbye Jimmy Reed

    Rough and Rowdy Ways

    Same theme as High Water (For Charley Patton): Both name a blues hero in the title and draw on that man's music.