Blackfoot morning dew11/11/2023 ![]() “I never met Tim Rose, but I went to see him at the Half Moon, Putney. She became an academic administrator at Birkbeck College. (She has also re-recorded it on her new album Take Me For A Walk In The Morning Dew.) Thereafter she left Canada and moved to London, but didn’t chime with the English folk scene. They did, and homed in on the magnificent melody and chord changes, which cried out for dramatic guitar solos and masculine angst.ĭobson recorded the song twice in the 60s: first on her third album, At Folk City, then on her self-titled 1969 RCA LP. “The song is a conversation between a man and a woman, so the groups thought it was like a courtly love song.” “In my mind it will always be post-apocalyptic, but it’s open to interpretation,” says Dobson. The early Allman Brothers cut it, as did Lulu, Lee Hazlewood and Nazareth. It was interpreted by various rock groups, including Ian Gillan’s pre-Purple Episode Six, then the Jeff Beck Group on Truth. Rose’s cover was released as a single, and the Grateful Dead heard him sing it on the road in late ’66. And while Elektra’s Jac Holzman signed her to his offshoot Nina Music, nothing prevented Rose from sticking his moniker in brackets. Dylan had publishing with Columbia (he called himself Blind Boy Grunt), but Dobson’s song became Public Domain. All three had that day’s songs (lyrics and chords) published in the mimeographed tip sheet Broadside. “I first recorded the song after playing it live at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ontario, at Folkways Studio, downtown Manhattan.”ĭobson is too modest to mention that she went to Folkways after rehearsals at Gerdes Folk City with Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs – the three of them having an acoustic face-off in the tiny basement. “In some ways it was my fault – I was so naïve,” says Dobson. (Rose also claimed to have written Hey Joe, to which Billy Roberts is generally given entitlement.) ![]() Her signature song was first covered by the Briarwood Singers, then by Fred Neil & Vince Martin for their album Tear Down The Walls, Fred changing the opening line from ‘ Take me for a walk in the morning dew’ to ‘ Walk me out in the morning dew.’ That was the version Rose copied for his debut album. In the midst of the folk-rock boom, she toured the States alongside Judy Collins, Richie Havens and Mississippi John Hurt. ![]() She earned a living touring with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee in 1960. ![]()
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