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| "The Love that Faded" | |
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| Song by Bob Dylan | |
| Released | 2011 |
| Recorded | 2011 |
| Genre | Country |
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"The Love that Faded" is a song by Bob Dylan. It contains lyrics by Hank Williams to which Dylan composed music, and it appears on the 2011 LP The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams . [1]
In 2006, a janitor working for Sony/ATV Music Publishing claimed to have found Williams' unfinished lyrics inside a Sony-owned dumpster. The unfinished lyrics were returned to Sony/ATV, which handed them to Bob Dylan in 2008 to complete the songs for an album release. Dylan completed one song; other artists completed others. Dylan's admiration for Williams' work is well documented. When asked about his all-time favorite singer-songwriters in interviews, Williams is nearly always mentioned, and in his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One , Dylan states, "When I hear Hank sing, all movement ceases. The slightest whisper seems sacrilege."
Dylan had recorded and performed several Williams songs before "The Love that Faded":
