Things Have Changed
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| Single by Bob Dylan | ||||||||||
| from the album "Wonder Boys" OST | ||||||||||
| B-side | "Blind Willie McTell" (Live version) | |||||||||
| Released | May 1, 2000 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" single, CD single, extended play CD (Japan) | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock, country rock, folk rock, blues rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:37 (radio edit) 5:09 (video version) 5:25 (full-length version) |
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| Label | Columbia Records | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Bob Dylan | |||||||||
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"Things Have Changed" is a song from the film Wonder Boys, written and performed by Bob Dylan and released as a single on May 1, 2000. In 2001, "Things Have Changed" won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
Dylan critics disagree about when this song was recorded. According to Olof Björner, "Things Have Changed" was recorded in May 1999 at Sterling Sound studios in New York.Clinton Heylin, in his account of Dylan's songs between 1974 and 2008, believes the song was recorded at Sony Studios, New York, probably on 25 and 26 July 1999. During this latter date, Dylan was touring the US with Paul Simon.
Sources agree the musicians who accompanied Dylan in the studio were his touring band at the time: Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell on guitar, Tony Garnier on bass and David Kemper on drums.
Kemper has said, "We were touring and had a day off in New York. Bob said, "Tomorrow let's go into the studio. I got a song I want to record. We went in and played "Things Have Changed" with only an engineer. We did two takes. The first was a New Orleans thing. The second was what you hear. So in about five hours we learned it recorded it, mixed it.
Engineer Chris Shaw has confirmed there was another version, which "was really great, which had a kind of New Orleans shuffle to it". Shaw hoped to include this unreleased version on Volume 8 of Dylan's Bootleg Series, Tell Tale Signs. But when the studio recording could not be located, it was replaced by a live version recorded in Portland, Oregon, on June 15, 2000, which Heylin describes as "mediocre".
Clinton Heylin has written that "Things Have Changed" demonstrates a close knowledge of the film Wonder Boys, for which it was written. The lyrics make reference to "dancing lessons", "the jitterbug rag" and dressing "in drag", all of which feature in the plot of the film.
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