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Bob Dylan & The Band

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere

1971 · via Counting Crows

Bob Dylan & The Band’s earliest release of “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” on file came out in 1971. Bob Dylan wrote it. The earliest release on file is The Byrds’, from 1968, along with Joan Baez’s. Also recorded by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (released 1989), Counting Crows (released 2002) and The Radiators (released 1990), among 184 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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The Byrds and Joan Baez both put this one out in 1968, and the writer's own take with The Band came out in 1971. Play that one next to the Crows and hear where the song started.

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Credited writer: Bob Dylan.

Earliest release on file: The Byrds, 1968, the same year as Joan Baez.

Other recordings on file · first release year

184 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

First pulled by @ga-4367 · No. 0006, Oct 14, 2026.

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Counting Crows took on "You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere," a song The Byrds had on record well before them. Who wrote it?Bob Dylan
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