"Sweet Amarillo" is a song written by

Donna Weiss Donna Terry Weiss is an American singer and songwriter. She won a Grammy Award in 1982 for co-writing "Bette Davis Eyes" (1974) with Jackie DeShannon. Songwriter / composer credits Source: * "Bette Davis Eyes" (1974) with Jackie DeShannon - In ...

. Brenda Patterson released the song on her 1974 album "Like Good Wine".

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

sang a brief version of the song during a 1973 recording sessions for the Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid soundtrack. Donna Weiss and Brenda Patterson were also singing at the session. Donna Weiss performed the song several occasions on the second leg of Bob Dylan's

Rolling Thunder Revue The Rolling Thunder Revue was a 1975–76 concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with numerous musicians and collaborators. The purpose of the tour was to allow Dylan, who was a major recording artist and concert performer, to play ...

concert tour. The

Old Crow Medicine Show Old Crow Medicine Show is an Americana (music), Americana string band based in Nashville, Tennessee, that has been recording since 1998. They were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on September 17, 2013. Their ninth album, ''Remedy (Old Crow Med ...

(OCMS) released a version on July 1, 2014 on their ''Remedy'' album.

asked

Ketch Secor Jay Ketcham Miller Secor (born May 14, 1978), known as Ketch Secor, is a Grammy award-winning American musician and a co-founder and current frontman for the band Old Crow Medicine Show. He is the only member of the band who has remained since it ...

of OCMS to finish the song, and after OCMS sent their demo to Bob, Ketch recalls "…So I finished the song with Old Crow, and we sent it back to Bob and he said, ‘Hey, that sounds great, but I think Ketch should play the fiddle, not the harmonica, and I think the chorus needs to come in at the eighth bar, not the 16th.’ We did exactly what Bob said, and it's like the song sprouted wings and flew."

References

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