The Love that Faded
"The Love that Faded" is a song by Bob Dylan. It contains lyrics by Hank Williams to which Dylan composed music and appears on the 2011 LP "The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams". Background. 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 later returned to Sony/ATV, which handed them to Bob Dylan in 2008 to complete the songs for an album release. Dylan completed one song; others were completed by other artists. 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 "", 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":