"I Shall Be Released"
Song by The Band from the album Music from Big Pink
Released July 1, 1968
Length 3:19
Label Capitol
Writer Bob Dylan
Producer John Simon
Music from Big Pink track listing
"This Wheel's on Fire"
(10)
"I Shall Be Released"
(11)
"I Shall Be Released"
Song by Bob Dylan from the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II
Released November 17, 1971
Genre Folk Rock, Country
Writer Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II track listing
"When I Paint My Masterpiece"
(18)
"I Shall Be Released"
(19)
"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"
(20)
"I Shall Be Released"
Song by The Heptones
Released 1969
Recorded 1969
Genre Reggae
Label Coxsone/Studio One
Writer Bob Dylan
Producer C.S. Dodd

"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.

The Band played it on their debut album, Music from Big Pink (1968), with Richard Manuel singing lead vocals, and Rick Danko and Levon Helm harmonizing in the chorus. A legendary performance of the song was performed near the end of The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, in which all the night's performers (with the exception of Muddy Waters) plus Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood graced the same stage.

Dylan recorded two primary versions. The first is the Basement Tapes initial recording, recorded in 1967 and released on Bootleg Series 1-3 in 1991. Dylan recorded the song a second time in 1971, releasing this new recording on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II.

In 1969, the Jamaican harmony group The Heptones covered "I Shall Be Released" as a Reggae tune in 1969 for Studio One and then later on in 1976 at Lee "Scratch" Perry's Black Ark studio and label for the album Party Time.

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"I Shall Be Released" has been covered many times by many different artists. It has been recorded by The Earl Scruggs Revue, The Marmalade, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joe Cocker, Tremeloes, Bette Midler, The Box Tops, The Byrds, Rick Nelson, Melissa Etheridge, Coheed and Cambria, Tom Robinson Band, Nina Simone, The Slackers, Paul Weller, Jerry Garcia Band, Sting, The Deftones, The Hollies, Pearls Before Swine, OK Go, Beth Rowley, Big Mama Thornton, Chatham County Line, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Jack Johnson, Martin Harley, Kiosk, Maroon 5 and South Africa's Mahotella Queens.

The song has been performed live by, amongst others, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Gene Clark, Jerry Garcia Band, The Magic Numbers, Martha Wainwright, Wilco, Fleet Foxes, Jack Johnson, Joe Cocker, Ben Harper, U2, Cass Elliot, Mary Travers, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Chrissie Hynde, Zac Brown Band, The Band of Heathens, Mama Cass Elliot and the Wood Brothers. In addition, The Beatles performed it as an unreleased part of the Get Back/Let It Be sessions.

An unrehearsed spur of the moment inspired recording of this song in May 1971 by Elvis Presley was released in 1995

A recording by Mack James & Broadway Inspirational Voices featured in the film "A Home at the End of the World" (2004).

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I Shall Be Released

by: Joe Cocker

They say everything can be replaced
Yet every distance is not near
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here
I see my light come shinin'
From the West unto the East
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
They say every man needs protection
They say every man must fall
I swear I see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall
I see my light come shinin'
From the West unto the East
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Now, yonder stands with me in this lonely crowd
A man who swears he's not to blame
All day long I hear him shout so loud
Cryin' out that he was framed
I see my light come shinin', yeah
From the West unto the East
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released
Well, I say
Any day now, any day now




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