CLASSIC SONGS revisited ‘MORNING DEW’ by Bonnie Dobson

 

Robert Plant tells the story of how he first met the Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson: “A few years ago I bumped into Bert Jansch – I dared to knock on his dressing room door. Anyway, it was fine, and we found amazing similarities in roots and influences from the places we’d been. It was a beautiful thing. It reminded me that in the 60s I used to sing this song, with Band Of Joy, that was immortalised by Tim Rose and the Grateful Dead.

"Later I recorded it [with Strange Sensation on 2002’s Dreamland]. And now there’s a knock on my door, and there’s this lady standing there who says: ‘Hello, Robert. You’re singing my song.’ That was the great Bonnie Dobson, and the song is called Morning Dew.” 

Plant wasn’t the first to record Morning Dew. The song has a colourful history, not least because Tim Rose usurped the credits and some publishing royalties in 1967 – and Dobson wouldn’t be recognised as the sole writer for more than 30 years.

Read on:

https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/bonnie-dobson-morning-dew?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQRE3hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR41DnUv-yw6_XBGZz5VD0WO0OaPs2jENLeglXT4cgKM192ykVYovpWco7z6WA_aem_ReOeS3571fbJm-ltUWzHBA 

Morning Dew by Tim Rose I first heard by Tim . . . . .great version

Here’s the original - Bonnie Dobson

The Grateful Dead - best live

Jeff Beck - from the Truth album which we still thought was him covering the Tim Rose ‘original’!

sorry Bonnie!

Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation Isle Of Wight - 2002