Stephen Stills doing Bob Dylan’s Girl From the North Country
Bob Dylan (backed by Steven Stills and THE BAND) – To Be Alone With You – Washington, D.C. 1993
“He played us all the songs from Blood on the Tracks on acoustic guitar. We were on twin beds, across from each other. Oh God, I can’t tell you how great it was. At one point Stephen said something to him about the songs not being good. I was so Goddamn embarrassed. He was probably coked out. Dylan, being the arrogant man that he was said, ‘Well, Stephen, play me one of your songs.’ That was the end of it. Stephen couldn’t even find one string from another at that point.”
— Tim Drummond, via Rolling Stone
STEPHEN STILLS:
As I understand it, I missed Dylan by about a week, about a week before he was playing at Gerde’s and then his album made it, or it was like his album had already made it and he was doing a farewell gig at Gerde’s Folk City. In those days he was into things. I heard a story about Bobby where he ran this great number:
This is just a story that I heard so it might not be true, but he put on a huge cape, a big black cape and a black top hat and he went roaring through Greenwich Village with about one hundred dollars in single dollar bills. And he found some wino crashed in a doorway and he walked up, came swooping up with this cape. He goes “whoosh” and hundreds of bills go flying over the street and he turns around and splits and this wino is standing there . . . it must’ve been a scream. Eccentricity is probably the best escape valve there is for the pressures of success. I hope that story’s true.
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