Someday Baby
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"Someday Baby" is a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
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-winning song 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...

 and the fifth track on his 2006 album
Album
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 Modern Times
Modern Times (Bob Dylan album)
Modern Times is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 32nd studio album, released by Columbia Records in August 2006. The album was Dylan's third straight to be met with nearly universal praise from fans and critics...

.

The song peaked at #98 in Billboard
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's
Pop 100
Pop 100
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 singles chart, and was featured in a prominent iPod
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 + iTunes
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commercial that appeared around the time Modern Times was released in early September 2006.

The song is based on "Trouble No More
Trouble No More (song)
"Trouble No More" is an upbeat blues song first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955. The song was a hit the following year, reaching #7 in the Billboard R&B chart...

," a folk/blues song written by Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

 and popularized by the Allman Brothers Band, which was in turn based on "Someday Baby Blues" by Sleepy John Estes
Sleepy John Estes
John Adam Estes , best known as Sleepy John Estes or Sleepy John, was a American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Lauderdale County, Tennessee.-Career:...

 and popularized by Big Maceo as "Worried Life Blues
Worried Life Blues
"Worried Life Blues" is a song that has become one of the most recorded blues songs of all time. Originally recorded by Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather in 1941, "Worried Life Blues" was an early blues hit and Maceo's most recognized song...

."

Another version of the song, featuring a different arrangement and vocal, appeared on the 2008 Dylan compilation The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 – Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006. This version of the song was number 37 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
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's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.

An edited version of the album track was also released on a promo CD.

Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak
positions
U.S. Billboard Pop 100
Pop 100
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