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<\/a>Bringing It All Back Home<\/p><\/div>\u201cIt’s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u201d is a song written by Bob Dylan and featured on his \u201cBringing It All Back Home\u201d album released on March 22, 1965. The song closes out the album, which marked the start of things to come for Dylan and for popular music in general. \u201cBringing It All Back Home\u201d is generally regarded as one of the greatest and most important albums in the history of popular music. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006. <\/p>\n
On the first half of the album, Dylan is backed by an electric band – a move that alienated him from some of his peers in the folk music community, as well as many fans. The second half of the album contains songs played with his more familiar folk instrumentation. Lyrically, the album is a sharp deviation from his early days and brings to the forefront Dylan’s exploding consciousness at that time, often associated to the use of hallucinogenic drugs.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Alrick Huebener<\/p><\/div>Much speculation has surrounded who or what is the “Baby Blue” that the song bids farewell to. Coming as it does on the very last track of the album, Dylan’s farewell is so unapologetic and brutally final that it felt, at that time, like he was bidding farewell to an era. And perhaps he was.<\/p>\n
In a mesmerizing sequence of how the creative process sometimes works, Willie Dixon (1915-1992), who acted as producer, talent scout, session musician and staff songwriter for Chess Records, started things off with his magnificent composition \u201cHoochie Coochie Man\u201d, first recorded by Muddy Waters (1913-1983) in 1954. This recording in turn inspired Bo Diddley (1928-2008) to write and record his blues standard \u201cI’m A Man\u201d in 1955. The same year, Muddy answered Bo with his recording of \u201cMannish Boy.\u201d All three of these very similar blues songs and their magnificent beat inspired rock ‘n roller Gene Vincent (1935-1971) to write and record his song \u201cBaby Blue\u201d in 1958, which in turn inspired Dylan as he was writing \u201cIt’s All Over Now, Baby Blue\u201d in 1964. What a journey! <\/p>\n
<\/a>Roch Tass\u00e9<\/p><\/div>Dylan later described the writing of his song by saying “I had carried that song around in my head for a long time and I remember that when I was writing it, I’d remembered a Gene Vincent song. It had always been one of my favorites, Baby Blue… ‘When first I met my baby\/She said how do you do\/She looked into my eyes and said\/My name is Baby Blue.’ It was one of the songs I used to sing back in high school. Of course, I was singing about a different Baby Blue.” <\/p>\n
Here is a priceless live clip of Gene Vincent and his band The Blue Caps playing \u201cBaby Blue\u201d in 1958. The Blue Caps featured guitarist Cliff Gallup, one of the more influential instrumentalists of the 1950s. <\/p>\n