Chords for Bob Dylan - The Story Of Make You Feel My Love

_ [C#] _ It's not every day that [G#] a song comes along with the power to move millions of people
and inspire over [G#m] 450 other artists to cover it for their own albums.
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_ [F#m] You might know Make You Feel My Love from its [C#] unforgettable renditions by iconic musicians
like Adele, Garth Brooks, and Billy Joel.
But did you know that the song was originally written by Bob Dylan?
Dylan, one of the most [G#] important musicians of the last 60 years, has penned more [G#m] than
600 songs that have been covered by thousands of artists.
[F#] Some of these covers are so memorable in fact [F#m] that they've even become synonymous with the
musicians who interpreted them, [C#] many of whom had their biggest career hits with the songs.
[D#] But [C#] it may come as a surprise that Make You Feel My Love, with its simple melody and straight
to the heart lyrics, [F#] is one of the most covered songs in the Bob Dylan catalog.
[C#] What is it about this song?
How has it risen to modern standard [F#] status and become so beloved [C#] by musicians of all
genres and audiences around the world?
[F#] _ _ [C#] Originally written for Dylan's own Time Out of Mind album in 1997, [D#] Make You [D#m] Feel My Love
was actually first released a month earlier [G#] by Billy Joel [Gm] on his greatest hits album,
Volume 3.
[C] [Em] When the song was first pitched to Billy to record, [D#] he says he felt like he'd struck gold.
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[D] _ [G] _ Garth [G#] Brooks' version of the song would reach number [G#m] one on the country charts when he covered
it a year later for [F#] the soundtrack album of the film, Hope Floats.
[F#m] It also won him a nomination for Best Male Country Vocal [C#] Performance at the 41st Grammy
Awards and earned Dylan a nomination for Best [D#] Country Song that same year.
_ [C#] _ Perhaps the most notable cover of the [A#] song in recent [D#] years, however, was Adele's cover
for her debut album, 19, in 2008.
[A#] _ The only song on [D] the album that she didn't pen herself, its [D#] pure and easy flow [A#] served
to showcase her vocals and let her heartfelt interpretation [D#] shine. _
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_ _ [F] _ When she first heard [D#] the song, Adele [A#] said,
it had the most beautiful lyrics I've ever read or heard [F] or sung.
That kind of summed up everything I'm [C#] trying to write in my songs about how I felt.
It's such [D#] a beautiful song.
_ _ _ [C#] For Bob Dylan's own version, he accompanied himself [F#] on producer Daniel Lanois' 1920s
spinet piano with [C#] only an organ, a bass, one drum and a guitar to [F] round out the sound.
[F#] His distinctive voice gives the [C#] song a powerful and plaintive urgency, as only Dylan can [F#] do.
_ _ [C#] He would only record two versions during the sessions for Time Out of Mind, [D#m] [D#] an album that
won him three Grammys at the 40th Grammy Awards, including [F#] Album of the Year.
The second, previously [C#] unreleased version was released on January 27th, 2023, [F]
as part
of Volume [F#] 17 of his acclaimed bootleg [C#] series, entitled Fragments, Time Out of Mind [F#] Sessions.
Today, when [C#] we think of a classic song, we often think of the artist best known for [D#] performing it.
What makes Bob Dylan's Make You Feel My Love a true [G#m] standard, however, may be the very
fact that so [C#] many phenomenal artists have felt inspired to make it their own, and still
had [G#] great success with their unique versions.
_ [G#m] When a song manages to hit such a universal and [F#] relatable chord for people everywhere,
it's not only doing something [F#m] right, it's building a legacy all its own, [C#] one that can
be reinterpreted and appreciated [D#] for years to come. _ _