Delroy Wilson - I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan Cover)

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From '' Money ''
Label: Clocktower Records – LPCT-0100
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1979

Tracklist
A1 Money
Written-By – Delroy Wilson
A2 You're Riding For A Fall
A3 I Shall Be Released
Written-By – Bob Dylan
A4 Sun Is Shining
Written-By – Bob Marley
A5 So Long Baby
B1 Just Call On Me
B2 How Could I Leave
B3 Got To See My Baby
B4 Have Some Mercy
B5 I'm Not A King

Guitar [Lead] – Earl "Chinna" Smith, Tony Chin
Drums – Carlton "Santa" Davis, Sly Dunbar
Horns – Bobby Ellis, Richard "Dirty Harry" Hall, Tommy McCook
Organ – BBernard "Touter" Harvey, Ossie Hibbert
Piano – Ansel Collins
Bass – Robbie Shakespeare

Distributed By – Brad's Records

Producer – Bunny Lee
Producer, Edited By – Brad Osborne
Edited At – Bullwackies Studio

© 2009 Cobraside/Abraham/Clock Tower

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"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.

The Band recorded the first officially released version of the song for their 1968 debut album, Music from Big Pink, with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus.
The song was also performed near the end of the Band's 1976 farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in which all the night's performers (with the exception of Muddy Waters) plus Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood appeared on the same stage. Additional live recordings by the Band were included on the 1974 concert album Before the Flood and the 2001 expanded CD reissue of Rock of Ages.

Style and content

The song is influenced by gospel music, combining imagery of religious redemption, or release from sin, with implied literal release from prison. David Yaffe describes it as a song about "redeemed prisoners".
The singer describes life behind a wall reflecting on every man "who put me here" and a man "who swears he's not to blame" who is "crying out that he was framed".
He repeats that "any day now" he will be released. Mike Marqusee says that "the first person narrator speaks from a prison cell. Prison—and more broadly the cruelty of the justice system—is a leitmotif in Dylan's work", but that Dylan broadens the idea of imprisonment to link social issues with a seemingly ancient urge for freedom.

Among the songs recorded at early basement sessions were covers of "Folsom Prison Blues" and "The Banks of the Royal Canal" (the latter is particularly affecting), both songs written—metaphorically—from inside prison walls. Dylan then takes a leaf from Johnny Cash and Brendan Behan (brother of Dominic Behan), authors of those earlier songs, by writing his own prison song, "I Shall Be Released." He is characteristically careful not to confuse simplicity of construction with a commensurate simplicity of meaning.
The release that he is singing about—and that Richard Manuel echoes—is not from mere prison bars but rather from the cage of physical existence, the same cage that corrodes on Visions of Johanna.

Cover versions

The Youngbloods
The Earl Scruggs Revue
Jeff Buckley
The Marmalade
Joan Baez
Heptones
Peter, Paul and Mary
Joe Cocker
Tremeloes
Bette Midler
The Box Tops
The Byrds
Ricky Nelson
Aaron Neville
Melissa Etheridge
Coheed and Cambria
Tom Robinson Band
Nina Simone
The Slackers
Paul Weller
Jerry Garcia Band
Sting
The Deftones
The Hollies
Trinitones
Pearls Before Swine
OK Go
Beth Rowley
Ken Lazarus
Big Mama Thornton
Chatham County Line
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Jack Johnson
Gov't Mule
Martin Harley
Kiosk
Dino McGartland with Laurence Jones
James Blundell
Miriam Makeba
Boz
Mahotella Queens
Jacob Miller
Bobby McFerrin
Black Oak Arkansas
Marion Williams
Lera Lynn
Wilco
Jack Johnson
Lisa Loeb
Zac Brown Band
Kesha
Half Moon Run
and by Elvis Presley.

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