Down Along the Cove

"Down Along the Cove"
Song by Bob Dylan
from the album John Wesley Harding
Released	December 27, 1967
Recorded	November 29, 1967
Genre	Country rock
Length	2:23
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Bob Dylan
Producer(s)	Bob Johnston
John Wesley Harding track listing
12 tracks  Side one "John Wesley Harding" "As I Went Out One Morning" "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" "All Along the Watchtower" "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" "Drifter's Escape" Side two "Dear Landlord" "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" "The Wicked Messenger" "Down Along the Cove" "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"

"Down Along the Cove" is a song written and originally performed by Bob Dylan for his album John Wesley Harding. Dylan recorded the song in one take at Columbia's Studio A, Nashville, on November 29, 1967.

"Down Along the Cove" features minimal instrumentation and a 12-bar country blues style. The song includes Bob Dylan on piano and Peter Drake on pedal steel guitar.

Dylan debuted this song at the EMU Ballroom on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon on June 14, 1999. Dylan performed the song with some regularity beginning in 2003 until the song's last live performance to date in Rome, Italy on June 16, 2006.

"Down Along the Cove" has been covered several times. British folk artist Davey Graham covered the song on his 1969 album, Hat, and Georgie Fame also recorded the song in late 1970s. His version appears on the compilation record Somebody Stole My Summer. The song was also covered by Johnny Jenkins on his critically acclaimed and influential electric blues album Ton-Ton Macoute! in 1970.

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