Legends reunite at Mariposa for Hall of Fame award. It might take a lot to get this talented lady away from making raspberry jam or red currant vodka, but this is the page to watch for news of her next musical outing. Although it’s been covered to such an extent that it quickly became an enduring standard in many a legendary artist’s repertoire (sample covers below) it just happened to be the first of many original and traditional songs she still readily performs. For many years now she’s been playing for enjoyment when summoned out of unofficial retirement and is still keen to remind people of the political parallels between the 1960s and the present day.īut although it’s her clarion call, “Morning Dew” is far from being the lone success of Bonnie’s long and varied musical career.
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Take Me For A Walk In The Morning Dew is out now on Hornbeam Recordings.Going strong in 2023 and still occasionally to be discovered rousing British audiences, youthful octogenarian Bonnie Dobson still knows how to woo a crowd. I felt like I’d got my song back for the first time since 1961.” And when Robert introduced me I achieved closure. “Probably my proudest moments, because my kids got to see me perform. He restored some parity.Īfter years off stage, Dobson was coaxed back by Jarvis Cocker at the 2007 Meltdown Festival, then sang Morning Dew with Robert Plant, Bernard Butler and Danny Thompson at the Bert Jansch Tribute Concert in December 2013 at London’s Royal Festival Hall. I love you.’” By this time Dobson had seen Tony Morris, who deals in contractual and intellectual property. “He knew I was there, because when he intro’d the song he called out: ‘Hey Bonnie. When he announced the song, I shouted: ‘How about giving the writer some credit?’ He was conciliatory, then he turned testy and said: ‘Why the… should you complain? You get your 75 per cent!’”ĭobson came across Rose again at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. “I never met Tim Rose, but I went to see him at the Half Moon, Putney. She became an academic administrator at Birkbeck College.
(She has also re-recorded it on her new album Take Me For A Walk In The Morning Dew.) Thereafter she left Canada and moved to London, but didn’t chime with the English folk scene. They did, and homed in on the magnificent melody and chord changes, which cried out for dramatic guitar solos and masculine angst.ĭobson recorded the song twice in the 60s: first on her third album, At Folk City, then on her self-titled 1969 RCA LP. “The song is a conversation between a man and a woman, so the groups thought it was like a courtly love song.” “In my mind it will always be post-apocalyptic, but it’s open to interpretation,” says Dobson. The early Allman Brothers cut it, as did Lulu, Lee Hazlewood and Nazareth. It was interpreted by various rock groups, including Ian Gillan’s pre-Purple Episode Six, then the Jeff Beck Group on Truth. Rose’s cover was released as a single, and the Grateful Dead heard him sing it on the road in late ’66. And while Elektra’s Jac Holzman signed her to his offshoot Nina Music, nothing prevented Rose from sticking his moniker in brackets. Dylan had publishing with Columbia (he called himself Blind Boy Grunt), but Dobson’s song became Public Domain. All three had that day’s songs (lyrics and chords) published in the mimeographed tip sheet Broadside. “I first recorded the song after playing it live at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ontario, at Folkways Studio, downtown Manhattan.”ĭobson is too modest to mention that she went to Folkways after rehearsals at Gerdes Folk City with Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs – the three of them having an acoustic face-off in the tiny basement. “In some ways it was my fault – I was so naïve,” says Dobson. (Rose also claimed to have written Hey Joe, to which Billy Roberts is generally given entitlement.) Her signature song was first covered by the Briarwood Singers, then by Fred Neil & Vince Martin for their album Tear Down The Walls, Fred changing the opening line from ‘ Take me for a walk in the morning dew’ to ‘ Walk me out in the morning dew.’ That was the version Rose copied for his debut album.
In the midst of the folk-rock boom, she toured the States alongside Judy Collins, Richie Havens and Mississippi John Hurt. She earned a living touring with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee in 1960.
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