Gid Tanner a multi-album record deal. Bob Dylan wrote and performed a version of Gid Tanner's "Down on Tanner's Farm", retitled and reset as "New York Town". It can be heard in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary on Dylan, "No Direction Home". In various prewar lineups Tanner recorded singles for Columbia and its affiliated labels Bluebird, Victor, His Master's Voice (India), Regal (England), Regal Zonophone (Australia), Montgomery Ward, and Vocalion. Postwar, at least one Tanner 45-rpm reissue single is known on RCA Victor. Gid Tanner James Gideon "Gid" Tanner (June 6, 1885 – May 13, 1960) was an American old-time fiddler and one
Infidels (Bob Dylan album) A number of critics have called "Jokerman" a sly political protest, addressed to an antichrist-like figure, a ""manipulator of crowds … a dream twister."" The second track, "Sweetheart Like You", is sung to a fictitious woman. Oliver Trager's book, "Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia", mentions that some have criticized this song as sexist. Indeed, music critic Tim Riley makes that accusation in his book, "Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary", singling out lyrics like ""a woman like you should be at home/That's where you belong/Taking care of somebody nice/Who don't know how to do you wrong."" However,