Chimes of Freedom (song)
| "Chimes of Freedom" | |
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| Song by Bob Dylan | |
| from the album Another Side of Bob Dylan | |
| Released | August 8, 1964 |
| Recorded | June 9, 1964 |
| Studio | Columbia, New York City |
| Genre | Folk |
| Length | 7:10 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
| Producer(s) | Tom Wilson |
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| "Chimes of Freedom" | |
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| Song by The Byrds | |
| from the album Mr. Tambourine Man | |
| Released | June 21, 1965 |
| Recorded | April 22, 1965 |
| Studio | Columbia, Hollywood, California |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 3:51 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
| Producer(s) | Terry Melcher |
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"Chimes of Freedom" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan (see 1964 in music), produced by Tom Wilson. It was written in early 1964 and was influenced by the symbolist poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. The song depicts the feelings and thoughts of the singer and his companion as they wait out a lightning storm under a doorway. The singer expresses his solidarity with people who are downtrodden or otherwise treated unjustly, and believes that the thunder is tolling in sympathy for them. Music critic Paul Williams has described the song as Dylan's Sermon on the Mount. The song has been covered many times by different artists, including The Byrds, Jefferson Starship, Youssou N'Dour, Bruce Springsteen and U2.
"Chimes of Freedom" was written shortly after the release of The Times They Are a-Changin' album in early 1964 during a road trip that Dylan took across America with musician Paul Clayton, journalist Pete Karman, and road manager Victor Maimudes. It was written at about the same time as "Mr. Tambourine Man", which is similarly influenced by the symbolism of Arthur Rimbaud. There are conflicting stories about exactly when during the trip this song was written. One story is that Dylan wrote the song on a portable typewriter in the back of a car the day after visiting civil rights activists Bernice Johnson and Cordell Reagon in Atlanta, Georgia. However, a handwritten lyric sheet from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that was reproduced in The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-1966 indicates that this story cannot be entirely true. Dylan was in Toronto in late January and early February, before the road trip on which the song was supposedly written. So, although parts of the song may have been written on the road trip, Dylan had started working on the song earlier.
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