Bob Dylan-I Want You Recording Session (March 10, 1966)

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00:00 I Want You (Rehearsal)
01:59 I Want You (take 1 Complete)
04:59 I Want You (take 2 Breakdown)
08:10 I Want You (take 3 Rehearsal, False Start)
08:45 I Want You (take 4 Complete)
11:46 I Want You (take 5 Issued)
14:55 I Want You (take 5b insert, Guitar Overdub)

/from Bob Dylan-The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12, Collector’s Edition (2015)/

Recorded between 6 and 7 a.m of March 10, 1966 at Columbia Music Row Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, the song was the last one recorded for Dylan's double-album Blonde on Blonde. It was issued as a single that June, shortly before the release of the album.
There were three complete takes of "I Want You", with the final take and a guitar overdub comprising the master.

Andy Gill notes that the song displays a tension between the very direct tone of the chorus, the repeated phrase "I want you", and a weird and complex cast of characters, "too numerous to inhabit the song's three minutes comfortably", including a guilty undertaker, a lonesome organ grinder, weeping fathers, mothers, sleeping saviors, the Queen of Spades, and the "dancing child with his Chinese suit". Analyzing the lyrics' evolution through successive drafts, Sean Wilentz writes that there are numerous failures, "about deputies asking him his name ... lines about fathers going down hugging one another and about their daughters putting him down because he isn't their brother". Finally Dylan arrives at the right formula.

Clinton Heylin points out that the "gorgeous" tune illustrates what Dylan explained to a reporter in 1966: "It's not just pretty words to a tune or putting tunes to words ... the words and the music, I can hear the sound of what I want to say." Al Kooper has said that of all the songs that Dylan outlined to him in his hotel, this was his favorite, so Dylan delayed recording it to the very end of the Nashville sessions, "just to bug him". Released as a single in June 1966, shortly before the album, "I Want You" reached number 20 in the US and number 16 in the UK.

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