High Water (For Charley Patton)

"High Water (For Charley Patton)"
Song by Bob Dylan
from the album Love and Theft
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2001
RecordedMay 2001
StudioClinton Recording, New York City
Genre
Length4:04
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Dylan
Producer(s)Jack Frost
Love and Theft track listing
12 tracks
  1. "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum"
  2. "Mississippi"
  3. "Summer Days"
  4. "Bye and Bye"
  5. "Lonesome Day Blues"
  6. "Floater (Too Much to Ask)"
  7. "High Water (For Charley Patton)"
  8. "Moonlight"
  9. "Honest With Me"
  10. "Po' Boy"
  11. "Cry a While"
  12. "Sugar Baby"

"High Water (For Charley Patton)" is a song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released as the seventh track on his 31st studio album "Love and Theft" in 2001 and anthologized on the compilation album Dylan in 2007.[4] Like much of Dylan's 21st century output, he produced the track himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

The song draws its title from Charley Patton's "High Water Everywhere", and is meant as a tribute to that bluesman[5] although Dylan scholar Tony Attwood notes that the song, both musically and lyrically, has little point of contact with the original Patton work.[6]

  1. ^ SPIN Media LLC (November 2001). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. p. 127.
  2. ^ Selvin, Joel (September 9, 2001). "POP CDs / Dylan is brilliant on 'Love and Theft'". Sfgate.com. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  3. ^ Dylan, Bob Dylan Bob. "High Water (For Charley Patton) By Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - Digital Sheet Music For Piano/Vocal/Guitar (Piano Accompaniment) - Download & Print HX.14772 | Sheet Music Plus". Sheetmusicplus.com. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Dylan | The Official Bob Dylan Site". Bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. ^ Ward, Thomas. "High Water (For Charley Patton)". AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  6. ^ "High Water (For Charley Patton) | Untold Dylan". Bob-dylan.org.uk. 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2013-06-30.