Song · Bob Dylan
“Someday Baby” by Bob Dylan
Released 2006
“Someday Baby” by Bob Dylan appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2006. Its best result is #322 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,643 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Someday Baby" sits fifth on Modern Times, Bob Dylan's 2006 album for Columbia, and like much of his work this century he produced it himself under the alias Jack Frost, with Chris Shaw engineering.
It has a long family tree. The song is built on Muddy Waters' "Trouble No More", which the Allman Brothers Band made popular and which itself came from Sleepy John Estes' "Someday Baby Blues", the tune Big Maceo popularized as "Worried Life Blues". As Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon point out, Dylan held on to the structure but wrote new words, spinning the tale of a poor fellow's marriage troubles. It got more US radio play than anything else on the album, logged twenty weeks on the Adult Alternative Songs chart, and won Dylan a Grammy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 553 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 831 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2024 | 322 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2025 | 628 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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