Going, Going, Gone (Bob Dylan song)


"Going, Going, Gone" is a song by Bob Dylan. It was released in 1974 on the album Planet Waves, and also appeared on the 1979 live album Bob Dylan at Budokan. The song is in the key of F major. Dylan is accompanied by The Band.

Reception

Critics have admired the interplay in the song between Dylan's desperate vocal and guitarist Robbie Robertson's lead guitar. Rock critic Tim Riley wrote that "The Band's windup pitch to "Going, Going, Gone" is a wonder of pinpoint ensemble playing: Robertson makes his guitar entrance choke as if a noose had suddenly tightened around its neck," adding that The Band's sympathetic "shaping of the song... is so perfectly attuned to the bottomed-out quality of Dylan's mood that Robertson's guitar sounds like it's scratching the itch in Dylan's throat."

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