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}} "Just Like a Woman" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1966 album, ''Blonde on Blonde'' (''see'' 1966 in music). It was also released as a single in the U.S. during August 1966 and peaked at #33 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Dylan's recording of "Just Like a Woman" was not issued as a single in the United Kingdom but the British beat group, Manfred Mann, did release a hit single version of the song in July 1966, which peaked at #10 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked Dylan's version of the song at #232 in their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/bob-dylan-just-like-a-woman-19691231 )〕 ==Writing and recording== In the album notes of his 1985 compilation, ''Biograph'', Dylan claimed that he wrote the lyrics of this song in Kansas City on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1965, while on tour.〔''Biograph'', 1985, Liner notes & text by Cameron Crowe.〕 However, after listening to the recording session tapes of Dylan at work on this song in the Nashville studio, historian Sean Wilentz has written that Dylan improvised the lyrics in the studio, by singing "disconnected lines and semi-gibberish". Dylan was initially unsure what the person described in the song does that is just like a woman, rejecting "shakes", "wakes", and "makes mistakes". The improvisational spirit extends to the band attempting, in their fourth take, a "weird, double-time version", somewhere between Jamaican ska and Bo Diddley. Clinton Heylin has analysed successive drafts of the song from the so-called ''Blonde On Blonde'' papers, papers that Heylin believes were either left behind by Dylan or stolen from his Nashville hotel room. The first draft has a complete first verse, a single couplet from the second verse, and another couplet from the third verse. There is no trace of the chorus of the song. In successive drafts, Dylan added sporadic lines to these verses, without ever writing out the chorus. This leads Heylin to speculate that Dylan was writing the words while Al Kooper played the tune over and over on the piano in the hotel room, and the chorus was a "last-minute formulation in the studio".〔 Kooper has explained that he would play piano for Dylan in his hotel room, to aid the song-writing process, and then would teach the tunes to the studio musicians at the recording sessions. The master take of "Just Like a Woman" was produced by Bob Johnston and recorded at Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee on March 8, 1966, during the recording of ''Blonde on Blonde'', Dylan's seventh studio album. The song features a lilting melody, backed by delicately picked nylon-string guitar and piano instrumentation, resulting in arguably the most commercial track on the album.〔 The musicians backing Dylan on the track include Charlie McCoy, Joseph A. Souter Jr., and Wayne Moss on guitar, Henry Strzelecki on bass, Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano, Al Kooper on organ and Kenny Buttrey on drums.〔 Although Dylan's regular guitar sideman, Robbie Robertson, was present at the recording session, he did not play on the song.〔 This exploration of female wiles and feminine vulnerability was widely rumored—"not least by her acquaintances among Andy Warhol's Factory retinue"—to be about Edie Sedgwick. The reference to Baby's penchant for "fog, amphetamine and pearls" suggests Sedgwick or some similar debutante, according to Heylin. "Just Like a Woman" has also been rumored to have been written about Dylan's relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.〔 In particular, it has been suggested that the lines "Please don't let on that you knew me when/I was hungry and it was your world" may refer to the early days of their relationship, when Baez was more famous than Dylan.〔 Discussing whether the biographical basis of this song is important, literary critic Christopher Ricks has argued, "Everyone can understand the feelings and the relationship described in the song, so why does it matter if Dylan wrote it with one woman in mind?" In addition to its appearance on ''Blonde on Blonde'', "Just Like a Woman" also appears on several Dylan compilations, including ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits'', ''Masterpieces'', ''Biograph'', ''The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1'', ''The Essential Bob Dylan'', and ''Dylan''.〔 Live recordings of the song have been included on ''Before the Flood'' (recorded February 1974), ''Bob Dylan at Budokan'' (recorded March 1978), ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert'' (recorded May 1966), and ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue'' (recorded November 1975).〔 The "Just Like a Woman" recording session was released in its entirety on the 18-disc Collector's Edition of ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966'' in 2015, with highlights from the outtakes appearing on the 6-disc and 2-disc versions of that album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/bob-dylan-cutting-edge-1965-1966-bootleg-series-vol-12 )〕 Dylan performed the song at George Harrison and Ravi Shankar's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 and consequently, a live recording of it is featured on the ''Concert for Bangladesh'' album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Just Like a Woman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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