Buried In the Mix: "Shelter from the Storm"

You will never listen to this song the same way again. Here are 17 things you never heard in Bob Dylan's Shelter from the Storm.

#1

0:03 – You hear the metallic rattle of something striking the body of the guitar. This continues throughout the entire recording.

A Metallic Rattling

This effort with Shelter from the Storm kicked off by chance. I noticed the first of the bullets itemized below - a metallic rattling - maybe a button on Dylan’s sleeve? a pick? striking the body of the guitar repeatedly a few minutes into the track. And it bothered me I’d never noticed that before. How could I have noticed that? I have played this song a LOT of times.

So I hunkered down with my headphones and did some musical homework to find what else I haven’t heard. I played Bob Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm at least fifty times. Stopping. Starting. “Rewinding.” Other than looking up the name of the bass player, Tony Brown, I left the internet alone.

Here’s What’s “Buried in the Mix”

Hopefully, I’m sharing a few of the song’s close-up brushstrokes. Maybe one or two of the ones that I’ve found will ever so slightly change how you hear…