"Goodbye Jimmy Reed" | |
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Song by Bob Dylan | |
from the album Rough and Rowdy Ways | |
Released | June 19, 2020 |
Recorded | January–February 2020 |
Studio | Sound City (Los Angeles) |
Genre | Blues |
Length | 4:13 |
Label | Columbia |
Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
Producer(s) | None listed |
Rough and Rowdy Ways track listing | |
"Goodbye Jimmy Reed" is an uptempo blues song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and released as the sixth track on his 2020 album Rough and Rowdy Ways. A tribute to blues giant Jimmy Reed, the song has been singled out for praise by critics for being the most raucous number on an album otherwise predominated by quieter, slow-to-mid-tempo songs,[1] and for playful lyrics that deliberately juxtapose "the sacred and the profane".[2]
It is the only song on the album on which Dylan plays harmonica and his first such studio performance since he recorded "The Christmas Blues" for his album Christmas in the Heart in 2009.[3]