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Abandoned Love

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Recorded
  
July 31, 1975

Length
  
04:29

Writer(s)
  
Genre
  
Folk, rock

Label
  
Released
  
November 7, 1985 (November 7, 1985)

"Abandoned Love" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded on July 31, 1975 but not released until 1985, on his compilation album Biograph. It was originally recorded for inclusion on his 1976 album Desire, but was dropped in favor of "Joey". "Abandoned Love" was written during Dylan's breakup with his then-wife Sara Lownds.

Only one live performance of this song is known of, at The Bitter End cafe on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village on July 3, 1975, during a show with Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Paul Cable, in his book Bob Dylan: His Unreleased Recordings (New York: Schirmer Books, 1980), described this live version of the song as "Beautiful, eerie, easily as good as Blonde on Blonde lyrics and a tune that is unusual and perfect."

Covers

  • George Harrison recorded an unreleased demo version in the 1980s.
  • Everly Brothers: Born Yesterday (1985); Wings of a Nightingale (1998)
  • Seán Keane: All Heart No Roses (1993)
  • Chuck Prophet: Outlaw Blues, Volume 2 (1995)
  • Barb Jungr: Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan (2002)
  • Paul Rodgers Nils Lofgren: Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International (2012)
  • References

    Abandoned Love Wikipedia