Restless Farewell
"Restless Farewell" | |
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Song by Bob Dylan | |
from the album The Times They Are a-Changin' | |
Released | January 13, 1964 |
Recorded | October 31, 1963 |
Genre | Folk |
Length | 5:32 |
Label | Columbia |
Songwriter(s) | Bob Dylan |
Producer(s) | Tom Wilson |
"Restless Farewell" is a song by Bob Dylan, released as the final track on his third studio album The Times They Are a-Changin' in 1964. The melody is based on the Scottish folk song "The Parting Glass".[1]
Notable performances
In 1995, Dylan performed the song live as part of the Sinatra: 80 Years My Way television special, celebrating entertainer Frank Sinatra's 80th birthday, at the request of Sinatra himself. It was the only performance in the special of a song that Sinatra had not recorded.[2]
In 1968, Joan Baez covered it on her all-Dylan double album, Any Day Now.
De Dannan recorded it on their 1991 release Half Set in Harlem.
Robbie O'Connell performed the song as a member of Clancy, O'Connell, and Clancy on their 1997 self-titled album.
On the 2012 compilation album Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, the song was covered by Mark Knopfler.
See also
List of Bob Dylan songs based on earlier tunes
References
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