When you wake up in the mornin’, baby, look inside your mirror Or maybe it’s the weather or something like that Perhaps it’s the color of the sun cut flatĪn’ cov’rin’ the crossroads I’m standing at The performance seamlessly went into “Mama, You Been On My Mind,” written in 1964, but to that point another unreleased Dylan track. Take a tip from one who’s tried … And I threw it all away.” George didn’t perfectly nail the lyrics, but he captured guts of the chorus and parts of the verses - “No matter what you think about it, you just can’t do without it. George retained quite a bit of the song in performing at Twickenham, injecting intensity in his solo acoustic take. 13, precisely two weeks after the Beatles’ rooftop performance and while George was in a London hospital recovering from a tonsillectomy.ĭylan first shared the song with George and wife Pattie Boyd around Thanksgiving 1968 at his home in upstate New York. “I Threw It All Away” was so fresh a cut, Dylan wouldn’t record it for his forthcoming “ Nashville Skyline” until Feb. ![]() Everybody’s got somebody to lean on: Lucky and Nelson, November 1968.īob Dylan’s Basement Tapes with the Band (a huge influence on the Beatles’ Get Back sessions) had been privately circulating since 1968, and the first true rock bootleg - Great White Wonder, which featured two LPs of his music that stretched back to as early as 1961 - surfaced in record shops starting in July 1969.īut this January 9, George - just a few weeks removed from his first collaboration with Dylan - seized a few moments of spotlight and shared a few of his friend’s songs, and ones that the others in the room hadn’t likely heard.
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