Just Like a Woman

"Just Like a Woman"
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Blonde on Blonde
B-side	"Obviously 5 Believers"
Released	September, 1966
Format	7"
Recorded	March 8, 1966
Genre	Folk rock
Length	4:53 (album version); 2:56 (single edit)
Label	CBS
Writer(s)	Bob Dylan
Producer	Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology
Blonde on Blonde track listing

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Just Like a Woman is a 1966 song written by Bob Dylan. It appears on the second side of his classic 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. It was released as a single in the US and peaked at #33. The magazine Rolling Stone ranked the song as number 230 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time^[1]

Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while touring in Kansas City. It was allegedly inspired by New York socialite Edie Sedgwick, who frequented Andy Warhol's Factory at around the same time Dylan was introduced to Warhol and had a tendency to catch the attention of musicians (The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed wrote "Femme Fatale" about Sedgwick at about the same time, released on 1967's The Velvet Underground & Nico).

"Just Like A Woman" has also been rumored to be written about Dylan's relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.^{[citation needed]}

Some women's groups criticized this because of its disparaging lyrics.^{[citation needed]}

This song was not released as a single in the UK. Manfred Mann's version hit #10 there in 1966.

[edit] In the news and media

In a February 2000 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, presidential candidate Al Gore answered two questions by singing parts of "Just Like a Woman."

In Woody Allen's 1977 Oscar-winning film Annie Hall, Allen's character goes on a date with a rock journalist who recites the chorus of "Just Like a Woman" when recalling a Dylan concert.

In Stephen King's novel Carrie, a notebook is found that the title character had filled with the repeated lyrics, "Nobody has to guess/That Baby can't be blessed/Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest".

Manfred Mann released their version on 29 July 1966 (b/w "I Wanna Be Rich"). It went to #10 in the English charts.
Guitarist Bill Frisell covers this song on his album "Have a Little Faith".
The Panics cover this song on their EP, Factory Girl, and on a bonus EP, Join The Dots, released with their album Cruel Guards.
Les Fradkin released a provocative cover of it on his 2006 CD "If Your Memory Serves You Well".
Stevie Nicks covers the song on her 1994 album Street Angel.
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Calexico covered the song for the 2007 Bob Dylan biopic, I'm Not There