Down Along the Cove is a song

Song

In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...

 written and originally performed by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 for his album John Wesley Harding

John Wesley Harding (album)

John Wesley Harding is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's eighth studio album, released by Columbia Records in December 1967.Produced by Bob Johnston, the album marked Dylan's return to acoustic music and traditional roots, after three albums of electric rock music...

. Dylan recorded the song in one take at Columbia's Studio A, Nashville, on November 29, 1967.

Structure and instrumentation

Down Along the Cove features minimal instrumentation and a 12-bar country blues style. The song includes Bob Dylan on piano and Peter Drake on pedal steel guitar.

Live Performances

Dylan debuted this song at the EMU Ballroom on the University of Oregon

University of Oregon

-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...

 campus in Eugene

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, Oregon

Oregon

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 on June 14, 1999.. Dylan performed the song with some regularity beginning in 2004 until the song's last live performance to date in Rome

Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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 on June 16, 2006.

Cover versions

Down Along the Cove has been covered several times. British folk artist Davey Graham

Davey Graham

David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival...

 covered the song on his 1969 album, "Hat," and Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...

also recorded the song in late 1970's. His version appears on the compilation record "Somebody Stole My Summer."