Visions of Johanna - words and music by Bob Dylan -. Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft Bu. .

Marianne Faithfull released it on the album Rich Kid Blues in 1985. It was covered by Zimmermen, Grateful Dead, Maggie Holland, The Quinaimes Band and other artists.

Visions of Johanna" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Rolling Stone included "Visions of Johanna" on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1999, Sir Andrew Motion, poet laureate of the UK, listed it as his candidate for the greatest song lyric ever written.

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Simply one of the greatest songs ever recorded on an album featuring Like a Rolling Stone. Highway 61 revisited is the greatest album ever and this is its best song. 10 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. Greatest lyrical masterpiece of all of music. Though not as musically powerful as Like a Rolling Stone or Visions of Johanna, this protest of all of society's hypocrisy has a deserved place among the greater of American poetry. This song has been extremely Important to me, it inspired my poem 'The social classes'. It explores the way people choose to live their life and his reaction to their choices.

When Dylan began "Visions of Johanna" there was no audience recognition, which created a heightened focus, a special attention. When he finished playing that song, you could feel the 'Wow'. But that wasn't the only dramatic moment. Mike from Jacksonville, Flthe best version of this song is on the grateful dead's ''fallout from the philzone'' live album. it is perhaps garcia's most emotional performane both vocally and musically. stunning and errily haunting. Mike from Jacksonville, Fljerry garcia, god bless, loved this song. it was played once in 1986, several months prior to jer's diabetic coma. then the song was revived 9 years later and performed maybe 3 times in 95, a few months prior to jer's untimely death. very erie, yet uplifting song.

Visions of Joanna from Dylan’s 1966 Blonde on Blonde album was recorded between October 5, 1965 to March 10, 1966 at the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee. This was Dylan’s seventh album, which included a lot more folk rock, blues- rock, and rock. He said, It captured the wild, thin, mercury sound