Editing 4th Time Around (section)

==Background and recording==
A few weeks after the release of his sixth studio album ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'' (1965), [[Bob Dylan]]'s first recording session for his next album was on October 5, 1965, at [[Columbia Records|Columbia Studio A]], New York City. The producer was [[Bob Johnston]] who had supervised from the third, to the concluding sixth, recording session for ''Highway 61 Revisited'' at the same studio.{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}}<ref name="OLOF65">{{cite web |url=https://www.bjorner.com/DSN00785%20(65).htm |title=Still on the Road: 1965 Concerts, Interviews and Recording Sessions |last=Björner |first=Olof |website=bjorner.com |access-date=August 22, 2022 |archive-date=August 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220822153419/https://www.bjorner.com/DSN00785%20%2865%29.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> After this session, Dylan toured the United States and Canada; there was a second recording session in New York on November 30, during the tour.{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}} Three recording sessions in January (on the 21st, 25th and 27th) were not productive.<ref name="OLOF66">{{cite web |url=https://www.bjorner.com/DSN01225%20(66).htm |title=Still on the Road: 1966 Blonde on Blonde recording sessions and world tour |last=Björner |first=Olof |website=bjorner.com |access-date=August 22, 2022 |archive-date=June 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605143326/http://www.bjorner.com/DSN01225%20%2866%29.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

At Johnston's suggestion, the location for the sessions was changed to [[Nashville, Tennessee]].{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}} After two further concerts,<ref name="OLOF66"/> the fifth album session took place at [[Bradley Studios#Columbia Studios|Columbia Studio A]], Nashville.{{sfn|Sanders|2020|p=99}}<ref name="OLOF66"/> Johnston organized for experienced session musicians including [[Charlie McCoy]], [[Wayne Moss]], [[Kenneth Buttrey]] and [[Joe South]] to play with Dylan.{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}} They were joined by [[Robbie Robertson]] and [[Al Kooper]] who had both played at earlier sessions.{{sfn|Wilentz|2010}} Twenty takes of "4th Time Around", most of them incomplete, were recorded at the start of the first Nashville session, on February 14, 1966.<ref name="OLOF66"/> The twentieth take was used on ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]'',<ref name="OLOF66"/> with [[Overdubbing|overdubs]] recorded in June.{{sfn|Heylin|2011|p=264}} The album was released on June 20, 1966.{{sfn|Heylin|2017|p=288}}

Dylan biographer [[Robert Shelton (critic)|Robert Shelton]] wrote that "the guitar figure repeats a rippling, romantic Mexican cadence".{{sfn|Shelton|1987|p=324}} He related that Dylan told him that he had always been "hip to" [[Tejano music]] and a type of Mexican [[folk-pop]] music known as "cangacero", and that these had influenced his songs "[[It's All Over Now, Baby Blue]]" and "[[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]" as well as "4th Time Around".{{sfn|Shelton|1987|p=324}}