Sugar Baby (Bob Dylan song)

"Sugar Baby" is the final song on Bob Dylan's 2001 album "Love and Theft".[1]

"Sugar Baby"
Song by Bob Dylan
from the album Love and Theft
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2001
RecordedMay 2001
GenreFolk rock
Length6:40
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Dylan
Producer(s)Jack Frost
Love and Theft track listing
12 tracks
  1. "Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum"
  2. "Mississippi"
  3. "Summer Days"
  4. "Bye and Bye"
  5. "Lonesome Day Blues"
  6. "Floater (Too Much to Ask)"
  7. "High Water (For Charley Patton)"
  8. "Moonlight"
  9. "Honest With Me"
  10. "Po' Boy"
  11. "Cry a While"
  12. "Sugar Baby"

The song shares its title with the Dock Boggs song, a recording Dylan is said to have treasured as a young folksinger in New York City.[2][3]

Part of the chord progression and the lines, "Look up, look up, seek your maker, 'fore Gabriel blows his horn" are taken from the song "Lonesome Road", co-written and performed by Gene Austin, and later covered by Frank Sinatra in a swing arrangement.[4][5]

References
  1. "Love and Theft". Rolling Stone. September 4, 2001.
  2. Marcus, Greil (September 2, 2001), "Sometimes He Talks Crazy, Crazy Like a Song", New York Times, retrieved June 27, 2018
  3. Wright, Jack (Fall 1998), Only Remembered for What He Has Done - Dock Boggs, The Old-Time Herald, retrieved June 27, 2018
  4. Lott, Eric (2009). Dettmar, Kevin J.H. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Cambridge Companions to American Studies. Cambridge University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9781139828437.
  5. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Frank Sinatra: A Swingin' Affair!". AllMusic. Retrieved June 27, 2018.


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