Someday Baby

"Someday Baby" is a Grammy Award-winning song[1] written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released as the fifth track on his 2006 album Modern Times. The song was featured in a prominent iPod + iTunes commercial that appeared around the time Modern Times was released in early September 2006.[2]

"Someday Baby"
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Modern Times
ReleasedAugust 29, 2006
RecordedFebruary 2006
GenreFolk rock, blues
Length4:55 (album version), 3:07 (edit)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Dylan
Producer(s)Bob Dylan (as Jack Frost)
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"Things Have Changed"
(2000)		 "Someday Baby"
(2006)		 "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)"
(2007)
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Composition

The song is based on "Trouble No More," a folk/blues song written by Muddy Waters and popularized by the Allman Brothers Band, which was in turn based on "Someday Baby Blues" by Sleepy John Estes and popularized by Big Maceo as "Worried Life Blues." In their book Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track, authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon note that although Dylan "may have kept the structure, he changed the lyrics. The story spins around the marital problems of a poor fellow, but is punctuated with lines of the purest Dylan style".[3]

Chart performance
Chart (2006) Peak
positions[4]
U.S. Billboard Adult Alternative Songs 3
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 98

Awards

Other versions

An alternate version of the song, from the same recording sessions, featuring a slower tempo and different arrangement and lyrics, appeared on the 2008 Dylan compilation The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006. This version of the song was number 37 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[5]

An edited version of the album track was released on promo CDs.[6]

The song was covered by Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist live during her 2009 tour.[7]

References
  1. "GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners List". Grammy Award. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
  2. "Bob Dylan Someday Baby (album : Modern Times) Apple iPod+iTunes - Mars 2007 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. Margotin, Philippe (27 October 2015). Bob Dylan : all the songs : the story behind every track. Guesdon, Jean-Michel (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-1-57912-985-9. OCLC 869908038.
  4. References for chart positions:
  5. "The 100 Best Songs of 2008". Rolling Stone (December 25, 2008). Retrieved 2008-12-25
  6. "Bob Dylan Someday Baby USA Promo CD-R(ECORDABLE) (376554)". Retrieved 2007-06-28.
  7. "Feist // Live – Rollo & Grady: Los Angeles Music Blog". Retrieved 2020-12-09.


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