Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash perform “Girl from the North Country” on ‘The Johnny Cash Show’ in 1969. The duo’s contribution to the “new Nashville” sound is explored on the new 2CD set ‘Dylan, Cash and The Nashville Cats: A New Music City.’
Girl from the North Country is a folk song by Bob Dylan. He was released in 1963, on his second Studio album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.
Dylan wrote the Song during an extended stay in England in 1962. The content of the melancholic piece, which is of the wistful memory of an old love, led Fans and biographers to speculation regarding the question of which is the real Person, the Song could work. A theory is that it former girlfriend, Echo Helstrom and Bonnie Beecher, from his home in Minnesota could be, which would explain the title Girl from the North Country. The most widespread is the assumption that Dylan thought of Suze Rotolo, while he composed the Song. Rotolo graced the 1963 Cover of the album on which the piece was published. It was created in a time in which the two had threatened to endure a long separation, and to break the relationship – what they did in the year 1964, a year after the release of the song, actually.
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