Gladly, Dylan and The Byrds gloriously obliged. Naturally, when Dylan and The Byrds were on stage together the fateful gods of folk would’ve caused a mutiny had they not performed ‘Mr Tambourine Man’. The Byrds began with their classic anthem ‘ Turn, Turn, Turn’ before welcoming the pioneering troubadour who helped to launch their career onto the stage. Hey Mister Tambourine Man, play a song for me Im not sleepy and there aint no place Im goin to Hey Mister. In 1990, these two differing versions would collide to glorious effect at a Roy Orbison Tribute Concert. Tambourine Man' by the Byrds, and the start of LA folk-rock.
Thus, Dylan blazed a trail that The Byrds soon followed him down and beefed up his mantra with a rocky riff and production. Episode one hundred and twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at 'Mr. You might say we’re all exposed - when I say ‘all of us,’ I mean the same age group on both sides of the Atlantic - we were exposed to the root of true black music at the same time, and realised that that was the road that we wanted to take.” The first recorded version of Mr Tambourine Man hit shelves as the opening song of side two of Bringing It All Back Home on March 22, 1965. The Animals’ frontman Eric Burdon would later opine: “I’ve been told by lots of people who know, and were around at the time, that that’s what stimulated Bob into going electric and becoming a rock star as opposed to a folk star. Tambourine Man' was written by Bob Dylan and released in his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.The song has been performed and recorded by many oth. A year before Dylan went electric, The Animals scored a massive hit as they plucked a standard from the past and welcomed it into the visceral world of rock ‘n’ roll delivering the definitive version of the standard ‘House of the Rising Sun’. The Byrds might have changed the key and abridged the verses, but they furthered the rock element of the anthem and celebrated the continued coupling of rock ‘n’ roll and folk that Dylan was heralding by turning electric on his then-divisive 1965 record.Īs it happens, this transition itself happened to have roots in the mystic past of foggy folk ballads.
While the song has the sort of careworn feel that harks back through eternities to such an extent that you could mistake it for a folk standard from a bygone time when the artists were lost to hand-to-mouth tales, it proved equally revolutionary moving forward.
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