30 Days of Dylan #18: Guess I'm Doing Fine

May 2011 sees the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan. To celebrate, we're taking you on a journey through the lesser celebrated avenues of his back catalogue. A journey down Highway 61 that won't stop off at 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'All Along The Watchtower' or 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' but will call by...

Guess I’m Doing Fine (1963)

‘The Whitmark Demos’ album didn’t really add anything to the familiar material in Bob’s catalogue. A chance to hear some early stage, raw versions of certain classics yet nothing to usurp the standard versions. Again though the must-hear stuff was found in the pool of yet more previously unreleased Dylan compositions. Those stories you hear about him in the early 60s just writing and creating all the time had to be true. Nobody could have maintained that output on a part time basis, and a long lost tune like ‘Guess I’m Doing Fine’ would have been elevated to main album status if from the pen of many of Bob’s peers.