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Bob Dylan - I Can’t Leave Her Behind
Every now and again an artist jams out a song that is luckily captured, but never again quite properly recorded. This is at the same time both frustrating and rewarding, really not too unlike a discount lap dance, and such was the case in 1966 when Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson stretched their strings and gave us this beautiful moment. “I Can’t Leave Her Behind” was recorded in a Denver hotel room, March 13, 1966 while Dylan and Robertson, at the time of The Hawks, were working out new songs at 3 a.m. The Hawks were the backing group for Ronnie Hawkins in the late 50’s, early 60’s and Dylan would shortly after enter the studio with them in ‘67 to record, what amounted to, Dylan’s 1975 album The Basement Tapes. The studio in this story was ‘Big Pink’ and the band, of course, had since become, well, The Band.
Anyway, there was a version of this tune recorded in 2006 by Stephen Malkmus and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, but that’s kinda crap really. We also have a slightly different version that appears in Eat The Document, a documentary following Dylan’s 1966 tour of the U.K. with The Hawks. And somewhat muddying the waters even further are Dylan’s own various workings of this song that exist; “On A Rainy Afternoon” and “Does She Need Me?” are both said to be early versions of this tune.
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