Dylan Cover #639 Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, Marty Stuart "My Back Pages" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a cover by Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, Marty Stuart of "My Back Pages"

Thoughts on Dylan Original:

From the first time we tackled a cover of this song:

The original has taken upon itself a cultural importance, and the chorus has simply become iconic. I doubt Dylan intended such, but it toes the line of out and out protest and illustrative questions. He puts down everyone from evangelists to girls, but the language snakes and flows so magically that it doesn't seem as harsh as "Positively 4th St" or "Ballad in Plain D". The sense of exhaling desperation or at least the realization that age confuses things even more seems to be what I take from this tune after each listen, but things can change...or can they?

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:

We did a month of The Byrds covering Dylan twelve years ago, but we never got to this tune. Here are two of those Byrds with Marty Stuart doing it live in 2018. 

Thoughts on Cover:

Fun and straight ahead cover in Byrds style that really works wonderfully no matter what year it is.