According to our records, Robyn has played this song 2 times, most recently at Robyn & Emma's house
on April 08, 2020.
He first performed it at McCabe's
on June 20, 2014, 5 years and 9 months earlier.
Title
Artist
Label
Type
Year
Patreon 2022
Robyn Hitchcock
Internet
2022
Venue
Billed As
City
State
Country
Date
McCabe's
Robyn Hitchcock
Santa Monica
California
US
06/20/2014
Robyn & Emma's house
Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift
Nashville
Tennessee
US
04/08/2020
Comments
From Robyn on Patreon in 2022 I first heard this Basement Tapes outtake on a crackly bootleg record on a bleak November afternoon in Cambridge. The paint seemed to flake off the song: over a ghostly backing from the Band, Bob Dylan sketches out lyrics that for some tantalizing reason he never bothered to finish. It was such a haunting piece of music: could almost have been on the first Leonard Cohen album. Maybe Dylan felt the song was too ethereal to actually finish.
So if you want to sing this song, you have to channel your inner Basement Bob and finish it yourself. Here is my version, transcribed in Sydney and recorded in Cardiff. Hope you like it…
I’m Not There - RH vocals and guitars, recorded & mixed by Charlie Francis in Cardiff, June 2022.