Dylan Song by Song: "Just Like A Woman" Quiz

Answer: 1966

"Just Like A Woman" appeared on Bob Dylan's seventh studio album, "Blonde on Blonde," which was released in 1966. Other singles released from this album include "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "I Want You," both of which were top-twenty hits on the US Billboard Hot 100. "Just Like A Woman" peaked at number 33. The song was not released as a single in the U.K.

Answer: No

Though present at the recording session in Nashville, and although he regularly played guitar for Dylan, Robbie Robertson did not play on "Just Like A Woman." Wayne Moss backed Dylan on guitar and Henry Strzelecki played bass guitar.

"Rolling Stone" ranked "Just Like A Woman" number 232 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

Answer: Yes

This often featured song was first recorded on "Blonde on Blonde," which was released in 1966. It was then included on the following compilation albums:

"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" (1967)
"Masterpieces" (1978)
"Biograph" (1985)
"The Essential Bob Dylan" (2000)
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966" (2015)

Live versions of the song "Just Like A Woman" were included on the following albums:

"Before the Flood" (1974)
"Bob Dylan at Budokan" (1979)
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The Royal Albert Hall Concert" (released 1998)
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue" (released 2002)
"Deluxe Edition of The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979-1981" (released 2017)

Answer: rain

Bob Dylan performed "Just Like A Woman" live at the 1971 "Concert for Bangladesh" organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar. Fans can see his performance in the film and hear it on the "Concert for Bangladesh" album.

Answer: and the problems

Born as Eunice Kathleen Waymon, Nina Simone was a singer, songwriter, musician, and Civil Rights activist. She released a version of "Just Like A Woman," with slightly altered lyrics, on her 1971 album "Here Comes the Sun."

Dylan's lyrics here are:

"Ev'rybody knows
That baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls."

Answer: little girl

"American Songwriter" ranked "Just Like A Woman" number 15 on its list of "The 30 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs." The music magazine described it as "one of those Bob Dylan songs that gets under your skin. . . The verses are tinged with sadness and a need to strip away the layers of artifice surrounding the hungover singer and the girl he can now see clearly."

Answer: Queen Mary

"Queen Mary
She's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again."

Queen Jane appears in another Bob Dylan song, "Queen Jane Approximately," in which the singer asks, "Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?"

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Calexico covered "Just Like A Woman" for the 2007 musical drama film "I'm Not There," a biopic inspired by the life of Bob Dylan.

Answer: pearls

Andy Gill, in "Classic Bob Dylan: My Back Pages," and Clinton Heylin, in "Revolution In The Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan," have both suggested that this song might describe debutante and Andy Warhol associate Edie Sedgwick, who was a user of amphetamines. Dylan himself has never confirmed any association with any particular woman.

Answer: pain

American guitarist and composer Bill Frisell recorded a purely instrumental version of "Just Like A Woman" on his 1992 album "Have a Little Faith." In 1994, The Philosopher Kings covered the song on their debut album. A cover of "Just Like A Woman" also appeared on Ricky Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band's 1971 country rock album "Rudy The Fifth."

Answer: I was hungry, and it was your world

Van Morrison covered the song live at Winterland in San Francisco, California on February 2, 1974. "Paste Magazine" called Van Morrison's rendition of the song "drop-dead gorgeous with . . . a gut-wrenching intensity." Van Morrison mixes up the lyrics a little, whether intentionally or unintentionally, singing, "Please don't let on that you knew me when / I was weird and you were weird, too" for "Please don't let on that you knew me when / I was hungry and it was your world."

Bill Janovitz of "All Music" argues that these lines "certainly seem to make the case that the lyrics deal at least in a small part with Dylan's relationship with Joan Baez -- who was a successful folksinger before Dylan was."

Answer: John Waite

John Waite was lead vocalist for The Babys and Bad English and also released several albums during his solo career. "When You Were Mine" was his sixth studio album. It was released in 1997 by Mercury Records.

Answer: Manfred Mann

The song appeared on Manfred Mann's 1966 Album "As Is." Manfred Mann went on to lead the band Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s. The Hollies covered "Just Like a Woman" on their 1969 album "Hollies Sing Dylan."

Answer: Roberta Flack

"Chapter Two" was Roberta Flack's second album and contained such songs as "Let It Be Me," "The Impossible Dream," and "Gone Away." Stevie Nicks also covered the song on "Street Angel," which was released in 1994.

Answer: Jeff Buckley

The song appears on Jeff Buckley's first and only studio album, "Grace." He was raised as Scott "Scottie" Moorhead. Mick Jagger sung the song at the 2014 funeral of fashion designer L'Wren Scott, and Howard Hewett covered it on his album "Allegiance," which was released in 1992.

Answer: Joe Cocker

Released in 1967, "With A Little Help from My Friends" was Joe Cocker's debut album. In addition to this Dylan cover, it contained a cover of the title Beatles song. "Just Like A Woman" has been covered by numerous other musicians, including Radka Toneff, Dixie Carter, the Byrds, Rod Stewart, the Counting Crows, and Richie Havens.