Meet Me in the Morning

"Meet Me in the Morning" is a blues song written by Bob Dylan, recorded in New York City on September 16, 1974, and released on his 15th studio album, Blood on the Tracks, in 1975.

Composition and recording

"Meet Me in the Morning" is an acoustic blues performed with a full band and the only blues song on Blood on the Tracks. It is musically identical to another song, "Call Letter Blues", that Dylan had recorded earlier in the Blood on the Tracks sessions before rewriting the lyrics entirely. "Call Letter Blues" was eventually released on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 in 1991.

The intersection mentioned in the song's first line, 56th and Wabasha, apparently does not exist. However, Minnesota Highway 56 and Wabasha Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota did intersect in 1974, when the song was recorded. This suggests that the lyric is "56 and Wabasha" rather than "56th and Wabasha" as the official Dylan website states.

Personnel

• Bob Dylan – lead vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar
• Eric Weissberg – acoustic lead guitar
• Charles Brown III – electric guitar
• Buddy Cage – pedal steel guitar
• Thomas McFaul – keyboards
• Tony Brown – bass guitar
• Richard Crooks – drums

Other versions

A September 19, 1974, outtake of "Meet Me in the Morning" was released on the B-side of the Record Store Day 2012 release of Dylan's single "Duquesne Whistle" and on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of ' in 2018, with the complete recording sessions of the song included on the deluxe edition of that album.