North Country Blues

"North Country Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. He also performed it at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. Its apparently simple format (ten verses of ABCB rhyme scheme), accompanied by only two chords (C#m & Bb) and subject matter (the perils of life in a mining community and its ultimate demise) appears to have been influenced by Woody Guthrie. In 1968, Joan Baez included a cover of "North Country Blues" on her Dylan tribute album Any Day Now.

North Country Blues

"North Country Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. He also performed it at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival. Its apparently simple format (ten verses of ABCB rhyme scheme), accompanied by only two chords (C#m & Bb) and subject matter (the perils of life in a mining community and its ultimate demise) appears to have been influenced by Woody Guthrie. In 1968, Joan Baez included a cover of "North Country Blues" on her Dylan tribute album Any Day Now.