"Meet Me in the Morning" is a blues song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on September 16, 1974, and released on his 15th studio album, Blood on the Tracks, in 1975.
Composition and recording
"Meet Me in the Morning" is an acoustic blues performed with a full band and the only blues song on Blood on the Tracks. It is musically identical to another song, "Call Letter Blues", that Dylan had recorded earlier in the Blood on the Tracks sessions before rewriting the lyrics entirely. "Call Letter Blues" was eventually released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 in 1991.[2]
The intersection mentioned in the song's first line, 56th and Wabasha, apparently does not exist. However, Minnesota Highway 56 and Wabasha Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota did intersect in 1974,[3] when the song was recorded. This suggests that the lyric is "56 and Wabasha" rather than "56th and Wabasha" as the official Dylan website states.[4]
A September 19, 1974, outtake of "Meet Me in the Morning" was released on the B-side of the Record Store Day 2012 release of Dylan's single "Duquesne Whistle" and on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks in 2018, with the complete recording sessions of the song included on the deluxe edition of that album.[5]
Live performance
On September 19, 2007, Dylan played the song live in concert for the first and, to date, only time, during a show in Nashville, Tennessee. He was joined onstage for the performance by Jack White of The White Stripes.[6]
Notable covers
American heavy metal artist Jason Becker recorded a cover of the song and released it on his album Perspective (1995).
Russian rock musician Mike Naumenko wrote a song "Позвони мне рано утром" (lit. Call me early in the morning) inspired by the Dylan song.[7]
Freddie King recorded Meet Me In The Morning on the 1975 album Larger Than Life
