Robbie Robertson Explains Why He Turned Down Playing on Bob Dylan's New Album

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Robbie Robertson Explains Why He Turned Down Playing on Bob Dylan's New Album
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‘I would’ve loved for us to work together on that,” says Robertson

, when Dylan reached out to him late last year, he simply wasn’t available. “I was just slammed with work,” he says, noting that he had just finished his albumand a reissue of the Band’s self-titled 1969 album. “I said, ‘Right now, I’m in the middle of this stuff,’ and I think that he just felt like it was cooked and he needed to bring it out of the oven. So he went in and recorded this album.”

At the time, Dylan read Robertson some of his new lyrics over the phone, and the Band co-founder was deeply impressed. “I thought, this is just terrific writing and something that only Bob could do,” says Robertson. “And I would have loved for us to work together on that. But I just couldn’t do it at that time… I was gonna check in with him and just say, ‘God, I’m sorry I wasn’t available then, but let’s see if we can cause some trouble down the line.

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