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“Buckets of Rain” by Bob Dylan
From the album Blood on the Tracks (1975)
“Buckets of Rain” by Bob Dylan appears on 5 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2004 and 2024. It was first released in 1975 on the album Blood on the Tracks. Its best result is #208 on the WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,208 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Bob Dylan cut "Buckets of Rain" in New York City on September 19, 1974, and it has the last word on Blood on the Tracks, the album that came out in January 1975. After a record full of wreckage, he signs off light: five short verses to a lover, played on nothing but his acoustic guitar, tuned to open E, and Tony Brown's bass, with Phil Ramone engineering.
Oliver Trager heard a Sinatra-style tip of the hat in it, sung with an old Piedmont songster's sense of play, and a man who compares his love to a flood while still telling her, in soft and sensual strokes, why she matters to him. A take from the day before, September 18, finally surfaced in 2018 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 208 | WXPN | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Songs (2004) | 885 |
| 2012 | 275 | WYEP | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown | 500 |
| 2019 | 688 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 688 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2024 | 515 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
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