It was recorded from July to October 2006 at the Pass Studios in Los Angeles, California and mixed at the Paramount Recording Studios in Hollywood.
They initially held sessions at several recording studios in California, including Air L.A. Studios, Paramount Recording Studios, and Westlake Recording Studios in Hollywood, Jam Studio in Oakland, J.Jam Recording in Oakland Hills, and Paradise Recording Studio in Sacramento, where Raphael Wiggins resided at the time.
The Paramount record label enjoyed great success with the Delta blues recordings of Charley Patton, who had been a farmworker on Dockery Farms cotton plantation in Sunflower county, especially his "Pony Blues," which was released in 1929.
Paramount Records was born, but it wasn't until 1922 that it discovered the blues.
In the annals of American music in the 20th century, no record label had a more unlikely origin or trajectory than Paramount Records.
"As much as I say the live experience is paramount, recorded music is how a lot of us learn the songs we play live.
American enthusiasm for the group led to two appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and two albums on ABC Paramount Records, "Calypsos" and "Talbot Brothers of Bermuda".
Paramount Records, not associated with the motion picture company, was one of the few labels that took blues out of the ghetto and into millions of homes and uptown nightclubs – until the Great Depression hit hard.
The song itself dates to at least 1926, when Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded an iteration of it for Paramount Records, though it was likely around long before that; Dylan's particular version borrows heavily from another country-blues song, Robert Johnson's "Stones in My Passway," from 1937.
2013's collaborative release with Revenant Records, that compiled the bluegrass, gospel and blues songs released by Paramount Records in the 1920s, was housed in a velvet-lined oak cabinet with LPs kept inside a "laser-etched white birch LP folio" and digital files stored on a brass USB stick.
The song itself dates to at least 1926, when Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded an iteration of it for Paramount Records, though it was likely around long before that; Dylan's particular version borrows heavily from another country-blues song, Robert Johnson's "Stones in My Passway," from 1937.
