Just Dave Van Ronk Just Dave Van Ronk Just Dave Van Ronk is a 1964 album by folk/blues singer Dave Van Ronk. It has not been released on CD. It is probably this arrangement of "House Of The Risin' Sun" that was developed by Dave Van Ronk that Bob Dylan — who was a close friend of Van Ronk's at the time — used on his 1962 debut album "Bob Dylan". Van Ronk discusses this in Martin Scorsese's documentary "No Direction Home". In the interview, Van Ronk said that he was intending to record it at that time, and that Dylan copied his version
Dignity (Bob Dylan song) Dylan's "" in 2008, along with a previously unreleased version of the song from the original March-April 1989 recording sessions. An ultimately meritless federal plagiarism lawsuit was filed against Bob Dylan and Sony Records in 1995 by James Damiano; among the songs cited in the suit was "Dignity". The suit was dismissed in 1997, with the judge stating "there is no substantial similarity in the structure, instrumentation or melody of the two songs." An appeal was filed by Damiano and was dismissed in 1998. Dignity (Bob Dylan song) "Dignity" is a song by Bob Dylan, first released on "Bob Dylan's