There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away
With a worn out heart, whose better days are o'er.
Though her voice it would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day,
Oh, hard times, come again no more.
Richard Batey scanned this jpeg from the booklet that accompanies "The Genuine Bootleg Series" ( Scorpio 94-14-01/02/03). It was taken by Daniel Kramer in Woodstock in August, 1965. There is another version from the same photo shoot which appears in Kramer's book Bob Dylan (Citadel Press, 1967). There are a number of subtle differences. See how many you can spot!
Kramer describes the photo shoot briefly in his book. It seems that Kramer & Dylan were trying to replicate the successful Bringing It All Back Home album cover. Most of the props reportedly came from inside the shack. (Sure, Dan, old shacks routinely contain expensive guitars, obscure albums, and pretty women ;-). According to Kramer, this photo was to be the cover of Tarantula, but it was rejected because it looked too much like the cover of Bringing It All Back Home, even though Kramer obviously neglected to screw in his fisheye lens and the cat is conspicously absent. Richard thinks it looks too much like the cover of Jean Ritchie's 1954 Elektra lp, Kentucky Mountain Songs. I don't know what to think. But I can't think for you, you'll have to decide...
