"Pledging My Time" is a blues song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his seventh studio album, Blonde on Blonde (1966). The song, written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston, was recorded on March 8, 1966 in Nashville, Tennessee. Dylan is featured on lead vocals, harmonica, and guitar, backed by guitarist Robbie Robertson and an ensemble of veteran Nashville session men.
As with most of the album's songs, "Pledging My Time" was conceived, composed, and recorded within the span of a few weeks. The song was first released, in shortened form, two weeks after its recording, as the B-side of the single "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", a Top 10 hit in both the United States and Great Britain. The two songs also led off Blonde on Blonde, rock's first double album, which was officially released June 20, 1966.
Early in the fall of 1965, about a month after Highway 61's release, Dylan was back in Columbia's New York studios to begin work on his next album.[9][10] After five sessions that stretched into early 1966 and produced only one usable track, Columbia producer Bob Johnston convinced Dylan to move the recordings to Nashville, where Johnston had previously worked at Columbia's studios on the city's legendary Music Row.[11][12]
After three days in the studio with his new ensemble, Dylan left Nashville in mid-February to play eight dates that took him from New England to Canada to Florida.[16][17] He returned to Music Row in early March for four more sessions. In the second of these, on March 8, the group laid down three new tracks, "Absolutely Sweet Marie", "Pledging My Time", and "Just Like a Woman".[16] Only two full takes of "Pledging My Time" were recorded, the second of which became the master. (The first take was released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 in 2015.[18]) During the session, Dylan borrowed one of Buttrey's drumsticks to beat out a rhythm on the snare drum to show the musicians the "strong beat" he wanted.[19]
Dylan wrapped up recording for the album with sessions on March 9 and 10.[16][20] "Pledging My Time" was released in the United States on March 22 as the B-side of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35".[21] Both tracks had two verses removed for the release. The second and fifth verses were cut from "Pledging My Time, which fades out at the end of the single's third verse.[21] As a result, the single version ran a mere 2 minutes and 6 seconds, while the album track clocked in at 3 minutes and 50 seconds.[21][22] The record reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.[23][24]Blonde on Blonde was issued as a double album on June 20 with "Rainy Day Women" and "Pledging My Time" as its first two tracks.[7][16][25] In 2003, the album was ranked #9 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" issue.[26]
After the February recording dates, knowing he had three weeks to prepare for the next set of sessions for Blonde on Blonde, Dylan wrote 11 songs, eight of which were to appear on the album.[27] Initially, he typed out song ideas on a few sheets of paper.[27] One of these notes read "PLEDGING MY TIME if nothing comes outa this you'll soon know", a reference to the song's eventual title as well as the first draft of the lyric "if it don't work out/You'll be the first to know".[28] Initially listed in the studio logs as "What Can You Do for My Wigwam", the title was changed after two takes to "Pledging My Time".[29][30][a] Biographer Clinton Heylin contends the title was "surely a knowing reference to the Johnny Ace song 'Pledging My Love'".[28] In 1974, Dylan told Maureen Orth of Newsweek that "the singers and musicians I grew up with transcend nostalgia – Buddy Holly and Johnny Ace are just as valid to me today as then."[32] However, Daryl Sanders, in his book That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound, points out that Ace's song was a "much slower R&B ballad", differed in style from Dylan's track, and did not include the phrase "pledging my love" in its lyrics.[31]
The album track opens with Dylan's harmonica, as do 10 other of Blonde on Blonde's 14 songs.[2] The song proceeds at a slow pulsing pace set by Ken Buttrey's drumming, with Robertson's guitar and Robbins' piano creating a heavy Chicago blues sound.[3][33] According to music critic Andy Gill in Bob Dylan: The Stories Behind the Songs 1962–1969, the song has a "smoky late-night club ambiance", while author Oliver Trager's Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia describes the singer as sounding "reluctant, fatigued, and maybe even a little stoned".[3][33]
Gill observes that following the "goodtime goofing" of "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", the first track on side one, "'Pledging My Time' sets a humid, emotionally oppressive tone for the rest of the album". The song depicts a suitor pledging himself to his prospective lover with the hope that she will reciprocate.[33][34] Dylan's imagery includes the singer's "poison headache," a hobo stealing his lover, the possibility that the relationship may not work out, and the stuffy room where everyone's gone except for him and his girlfriend and he "can't be the last to leave".[35]
In his book Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan in the 1960s, critic Mike Marqusee writes that the closing verse "hints at a dark betrayal that is both portentous and frighteningly devoid of meaning":[4]
Well they sent for the ambulance And one was sent Somebody got lucky But it was an accident Now I'm pledging my time to you Hopin' you'll come through too.
— Bob Dylan, closing verse of "Pledging My Time"[35]
The stanza's "somebody got lucky" offers a distinct clue as to one of the song's inspirations. Both Marqusee and Trager point to the similarities between "Pledging My Time" and Robert Johnson's "Come on in My Kitchen", especially regarding Johnson's line that "some joker got lucky".[3][4]
Ah the woman I love Took from my best friend Some joker got lucky Stole her back again You better come on in my kitchen Babe it going to be rainin outdoors
Cash Box described the song as a "low-down, funky soulful blues-soaked romancer."[38]Neil Spencer gave the song a rating of 3/5 stars in an Uncut magazine Dylan supplement in 2015.[39] Author John Nogowski rated the song as "B", and commended it as "well performed with some exciting harmonica work."[40] In his biography, No Direction Home, The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, Robert Shelton wrote that the song was a "slow blues, strong and pulsing, with heavy Chicago influence. Mouth-harp swipes and extended harp breaks after the third and fifth verses build atmosphere. The lyric resembles improvised blues, with sophistication creeping in. Continuity of mood vanquishes disorder in phrasing."[41]
Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, considers the track "superb ... because of what it achieves as a blues".[42] Journalist and author Daryl Sanders praised the musicianship, including Roberson's "biting" guitar work, and Dylan's "dextrous and dynamic harp lines that at times were transcendent".[43] Dylan's harmonica playing is also lauded by authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, who refer to it in their book Bob Dylan: All the Songs as "extraordinary ... typical of a Chicago blues song and a real success."[22] Singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock observed that "Dylan has always been a visual writer, but (in "Pledging My Time") I can really see the scene".[44]
A mono version of the song was released on The Original Mono Recordings (2010). Reviewing the album, musicologist Christopher Reali wrote that "the mono mix of 'Pledging My Time' wants to burst beyond the confines of the speakers, but it cannot. In contrast, the sprawling sound heard on the stereo mix deflates the mood of the track losing all of the focused intensity heard on the mono mix."[45]
Live performances and covers
Dylan omitted "Pledging My Time" from his concert performances for over two decades. In 1987, in a series of appearances with The Grateful Dead, he revived the song along with several others he had left off his set lists.[46] He subsequently included the song in his tour later that year with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.[2] When Dylan began his Never Ending Tour in 1989, "Pledging My Time" was featured on two dates that summer, and he continued performing the song at occasional concerts through the end of the 1990s.[2][46] According to his official website, Dylan played "Pledging My Time" in concert a total of 21 times from 1987 to 1999.[47]
Meanwhile, two cover albums have been issued in tribute to the songs on Blonde on Blonde. Duke Robillard covered "Pledging My Time" for Blues on Blonde on Blonde, which was released in 2003.[53] And in 2017, a bluegrass interpretation of the song was featured on Old Crow Medicine Show's concert album 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde, with group founder Keith Secor handling the lead vocals.[54]
After neglecting the song for another two decades, Dylan revived it again for Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan (2021), a "concert film" shot on a soundstage that was streamed during the pandemic.[55] In reference to Dylan's film performance of "Pledging My Time", Damien Love of Uncut magazine described him "as casting softly after the shadow of Little Walter", the legendary blues harmonica player.[56] On a similar note, Jon Bream of the Star Tribune praised Dylan's latest rendition of the song as "slow and seductive".[57]
The single, with "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "Pledging My Time" on the A-side and B-side respectively, reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of May 21, 1966, was kept off the top spot by The Mamas and the Papas' "Monday, Monday".[59] It also reached No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart.[60]
^Reali, Christopher. M. (2014). "Review of Bob Dylan: The Original Mono Recordings". American Music. 32 (33). University of Illinois Press: 371–375. doi:10.5406/americanmusic.32.3.0371.
Margotin, Philippe; Guesdon, Jean-Michel (2022). Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track (Expanded ed.). New York: Black Dog & Leventhal. ISBN978-0-7624-7573-5.
Nogowski, John (2008). Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961-2007. London: McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-3518-0.
Sanders, Daryl (2020). That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde (epub ed.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN978-1-61373-550-3.
Shelton, Robert (1987). No Direction Home: the Life and Music of Bob Dylan. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN978-0-450-04843-2.
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