Painting by TTRHWilburysFan91I thought that we should start a thread listing all known musical and lyrical borrowings from Tempest . My list is, of course, incomplete but i'm sure you'll help me finish it in no time . My knowledge of American music is limited , so i'm looking foward to reading your posts .
Duquense WhistleWell , as pointed out by Mr. Rimbaud and The Great Wandu :
The music is based on Jelly Roll Morton's Each Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcRQUjnx2cThde song was featured in an early chaplin film ( i laughed so hard when i found this , i always had fought that the song was chaplinesque. )
What's interesting is that Dylan seems to have given some credit to Jerry Roll Morton . Quoting wiki
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Morton was invited to play a new Vancouver nightclub called The Patricia, on East Hastings Street. The jazz historian Mark Miller described his arrival as "an extended period of itinerancy as a pianist, vaudeville performer, gambler, hustler, and, as legend would have it, pimp".
You say i'm a gambler
you say i'm a pimp
but i ain't neither one The lyrics seem also based on this "K.C. Moan" by the Memphis Jug Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Ut4ovRTRMSoon after midnight
The music is based on Bobby Fuller's a new shade of blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SmZedG9sVwNarrow Way
(Music and ) lyrics loosely ( or not loosely

) based on You'll Work Down To Me Someday by the Mississippi Sheiks .
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/nh2fzbd ... omeday.mp3Long And Wasted Years
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Pay In Blood
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Scarlet Town
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Early Roman Kings
Music is a classic blues motif , popular in songs such i I'm a Man by Bo Diddley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaC5ZKRjLUMand Muddy Waters's answer to that Mannish Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8LesTvNuawWe might say that this is Dylan's answer to both songs , since they are definitely related lyrically .
Tin Angel
Lyrics echoing blackjack davey
Tempest( Music and ) lyrics based on The Titanic by the Carter Family
( If i remember correctly , couldn't find this anywhere online )
Roll On John
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( I'm posting it here because my TTL influences thread was moved here too . I think both threads might belong to General Discussion , since we're not only focusing on lyrical influences but also on musical. If you mods agree , we can move them there. Once again , sorry if i have any mistakes in my English)