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Just Like a Woman (song)

"Just Like a Woman"
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Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Blonde on Blonde
B-side "Obviously 5 Believers"
Released August 1966
Format 7" single
Recorded March 8, 1966, Columbia Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Folk rock,pop
Length 4:53 (album version)
2:56 (single edit)
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"I Want You"
(1966)
"Just Like a Woman"
(1966)
"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"
(1967)
Blonde on Blonde track listing
"Just Like a Woman"
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1966 Danish picture sleeve.
Single by Manfred Mann
from the album As Is
B-side "I Wanna Be Rich"
Released July 29, 1966
Format 7" single
Recorded 1966
Genre Rock, pop
Length 2:54
Label Fontana
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Shel Talmy
Manfred Mann singles chronology
"You Gave Me Somebody to Love"
(1966)
"Just Like a Woman"
(1966)
"When Will I Be Loved"
(1966)
"Just Like a Woman"
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Album cover of You and I
Single by Jeff Buckley
from the album You and I
Released March 11, 2016
Recorded February 1993
Genre Alternative rock
Length 6:28
Label Legacy
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Steve Addabbo

"Just Like a Woman" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde (see 1966 in music). It was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dylan's recording of "Just Like a Woman" was not issued as a single in the United Kingdom but the British beat group, Manfred Mann, did release a hit single version of the song in July 1966, which peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Dylan's version of the song at #232 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

In the album notes of his 1985 compilation, Biograph, Dylan claimed that he wrote the lyrics of this song in Kansas City on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1965, while on tour. However, after listening to the recording session tapes of Dylan at work on this song in the Nashville studio, historian Sean Wilentz has written that Dylan improvised the lyrics in the studio, by singing "disconnected lines and semi-gibberish". Dylan was initially unsure what the person described in the song does that is just like a woman, rejecting "shakes", "wakes", and "makes mistakes". The improvisational spirit extends to the band attempting, in their fourth take, a "weird, double-time version", somewhere between Jamaican ska and Bo Diddley.

Clinton Heylin has analysed successive drafts of the song from the so-called Blonde On Blonde papers, papers that Heylin believes were either left behind by Dylan or stolen from his Nashville hotel room. The first draft has a complete first verse, a single couplet from the second verse, and another couplet from the third verse. There is no trace of the chorus of the song. In successive drafts, Dylan added sporadic lines to these verses, without ever writing out the chorus. This leads Heylin to speculate that Dylan was writing the words while Al Kooper played the tune over and over on the piano in the hotel room, and the chorus was a "last-minute formulation in the studio". Kooper has explained that he would play piano for Dylan in his hotel room, to aid the song-writing process, and then would teach the tunes to the studio musicians at the recording sessions.


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