Expecting Rain

Next to "She's Your Lover Now" this is the most played song by Dylan on my iPod.
Are there any online resources detailing the history of this song? Its production, recording, writing, etc...
Which band? Etc.

Hari Bol,
Anr

Dylan comments a bit on the Biograph liner notes.

Heylin'.s "still on the Road" is pretty good on this. Both his books are in HMV (uk) for £4!

And this by Paul Thomas

http://paullyrics.com/articles/Caribbean_Wind.pdf

Have you heard the live version yet.

No...! Only the one on Biograph. Is the live version the one on the bootleg-album?

there are 3 and only 3 before we start that old chestnut again. biograph, demo, live, and all the ones heylin has of course


it is a goody, but maybe it's unfinishedness makes it so....

i dont want to hear a finished version of 'i'm not there' anymore.

gotta go mc and run a gig, i really never felt less like it but i know it's gonna be a magic gig. gotta do it all sober - quick pm me some wonder drugz!

FROM NASSAU TO MEXICO - mmm geographically predisposed to being spoilt. I mean ' from siberia to gdansk' aint a very appealing trip. to me anyway.....

Rrrrright...
Where can I hear the demo-version?
And what or who(m) is Heylin?

Good luck with your gig...I guess...whoever you are... with your fog, amphetamine and pearls (I'll stick to my methadone thank you very much)

just do it, tim... okay.
you wouldn't miss it for the world, remember.

Hello Anr Bjotk

The live version was played at San Francisco on 12 November 1980 and is available in the A-Z Recording List section of this site.

The demo version can be found very easily by typing caribbean wind demo version into Google and following one of the links on the first page of results you get.

The incomparable Eyolf Østrem has published charts for the different available versions on his Dylanchords site at http://dylanchords.info/28_biograph/caribbean_winds.htm

Dylan's liner notes on the song read as follows: "That one I couldn’t quite grasp what it was about after I finished it. Sometimes you’ll write something to be very inspired, and you won’t quite finish it for one reason or another. Then you’ll go back and try and pick it up, and the inspiration is just gone. Either you get it all, and you can leave a few pieces to fill in, or you’re trying always to finish it off. Then it’s a struggle. The inspiration’s gone and you can’t remember why you started it in the first place. Frustration sets in. I think there’s four different sets of lyrics to this, maybe I got it right, I don’t know. I had to leave it. I just dropped it. Sometimes that happens. I started it in St. Vincent when I woke up from a strange dream in the hot sun. There was a bunch of women working in a tobacco field on a high rolling hill. A lot of them were smoking pipes. I was thinking about living with somebody for all the wrong reasons."

If you don't know who Heylin is, don't worry. You don't need a fat Englishman to tell you what to think.

Have you seen this link?

http://expectingrain.com/discussions/vi ... =6&t=52292

Quite simply, this is nothing short of a masterpiece of a song... a lyrical work of wonderous art... and another song where Dylan celebrates 'wind'.

I love all Dylan's songs that mention wind, especially the ones where he has the word 'wind' in the actual title... per se, this one!

The song throbs and pulsates with frantic urgency from the opening beats to the final screeching whine... and, often overlooked, is the only Dylan song that mentions both Nassau and Mexico.

This is the type of song that makes you want to hold the one you love real near... dancing filtherly close... beads of sweat forming on your brow as the steamy latin-style grinding and swaying arouse the wanton desire that is buried deep within your soul... your movements controlled by the relentless drum-beat of this song!

This isn't just a song... this is audio passion... this is a sultry, seductive siren... this is a hot foxy lady of a track!