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
Another Side of Bob Dylan the direction of where music had to go." In January, while the Beatles were in France, George Harrison bought the French release of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", titled "En Roue Libre", which they played repeatedly, impressed by the lyrics and "just the attitude!". As the Beatles began to influence Dylan and vice versa, Dylan's personal life was undergoing a number of significant changes. When Dylan returned to New York in March, he rented an electric guitar. He continued his romance with folksinger Joan Baez, though their stage appearances together began to dwindle. Dylan's girlfriend Suze Rotolo apparently had had enough