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“Shelter From the Storm” by Bob Dylan
From the album Blood on the Tracks (1975)
“Shelter From the Storm” by Bob Dylan appears on 19 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1996 and 2026. It was first released in 1975 on the album Blood on the Tracks. Its best result is #40 on the 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #156 indie & aaa song of all time and #40 of the '70s.
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Bob Dylan cut "Shelter from the Storm" at A&R Recording in New York on September 17, 1974, running it five times and keeping the last, and it landed on Blood on the Tracks, his 15th studio album, in 1975. The setting is stark: Dylan's voice, his acoustic guitar and harmonica, and Tony Brown's bass pacing steadily underneath, with Phil Ramone at the controls.
The narrator is a storm-battered drifter sizing up himself, the perilous world around him and the love he let slip away, as the writer Oliver Trager reads it, while biographer Robert Shelton heard a quest to be saved by love, with a whiff of W. B. Yeats about it. Dylan sings it with the weary calm of someone who has already made peace with the loss.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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Also listed as: Shelter From The Storm; Shelter from the Storm.
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