Song · Bob Dylan
“Not Dark Yet” by Bob Dylan
Released 1997
“Not Dark Yet” by Bob Dylan appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 1997. Its best result is #295 on the WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,255 indie & aaa song of all time and #493 of the '90s.
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"Not Dark Yet" sits seventh on Time Out of Mind, the album Bob Dylan released in September 1997, and it had already gone out as a single that August. Dylan wrote it alone and Daniel Lanois produced it, and the song changed shape on the way. In the early sessions, by Lanois's account, it was quicker and more stripped-down, with a radically different feel; once the proper studio sessions got going, Dylan turned it into what Lanois called a civil war ballad.
The album version was cut at Criteria Studios in Miami early in 1997, and in their book on every Dylan track, Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon hear Lanois stacking up instruments to build a sound only he could have made. Columbia released it, and it later resurfaced on The Essential Bob Dylan, The Best of Bob Dylan and Dylan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 414 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2019 | 414 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2023 | 301 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
| 2025 | 295 | WFPK | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s | 500 |
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