Just Like a Woman (song)

:"This article is about the song; for the 1992 film, see" Just Like a Woman (film). :"For the Kikki Danielsson album, see" Just Like a Woman (Kikki Danielsson album).Infobox Single
Name = Just Like a Woman


Artist = Bob Dylan
from Album = Blonde on Blonde
B-side = "Obviously 5 Believers"
Released = September, 1966
Format = 7"
Recorded = March 8, 1966
Genre = Folk rock
Length = 4:53 (album version)
2:56 (single edit)
Label = CBS
Writer = Bob Dylan
Producer = Bob Johnston
Chart position = * #33 (Billboard Hot 100)
Last single = "I Want You"
(1966)
This single = "Just Like a Woman"
(1966)
Next single = "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"
(1967)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Blonde on Blonde
Type = studio
prev_track = "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "Just Like a Woman"
track_no = 8
next_track = "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)"
next_no = 9

Just Like a Woman is a 1966 song written by Bob Dylan. It appears on the second side of his classic 1966 album "Blonde on Blonde". It was released as a single in the US and peaked at #33. The magazine "Rolling Stone" ranked the song as number 230 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [cite web|title=Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs/page/3|accessdate=2008-08-08]

Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while touring in Kansas City. It was allegedly inspired by New York socialite Edie Sedgwick, who frequented Andy Warhol's Factory at around the same time Dylan was introduced to Warhol and had a tendency to catch the attention of musicians (The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed wrote "Femme Fatale" about Sedgwick at about the same time, released on 1967's "The Velvet Underground and Nico").

"Just Like A Woman" has also been rumored to be written about Dylan's relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.Fact|date=February 2007

Some women's groups criticized this because of its disparaging lyrics.Fact|date=February 2007

Dylan played the song at George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.

This song was not released as a single in the UK. Manfred Mann's version hit #10 there in 1966.

In the news and media

*In a February 2000 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, presidential candidate Al Gore answered two questions by singing parts of "Just Like A Woman."

*In Woody Allen's 1977 Oscar-winning film Annie Hall, Allen's character goes on a date with a rock journalist who recites the chorus of "Just Like A Woman" when recalling a Dylan concert. The effect of her doing so comes off mockingly instead of flatteringly; she's illustrating Dylan's supposed lyrical genius with a chorus that isn't exactly full of social importance or poetic merit.

*In Stephen King's novel Carrie, a notebook is found that the title character had filled with the repeated lyrics, "Nobody has to guess/That Baby can't be blessed/Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest".

Cover Versions

Nina Simone, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, and Something Corporate, amongst others, have all covered this song.

*Manfred Mann released their version on 29 July 1966 (b/w "I Wanna Be Rich"). It went to #10 in the English charts.
*Guitarist Bill Frisell covers this song on his album "Have a Little Faith".
*The Panics cover this song on their EP, "Factory Girl", and on a bonus EP, "Join The Dots", released with their album "Cruel Guards".
*Les Fradkin released a provocative cover of it on his 2006 CD "If Your Memory Serves You Well".

External links

* [http://bobdylan.com/songs/justlike.html Lyrics - Official Site]