Song by Song: "This Wheel's on Fire" Quiz

Answer: Rick Danko

According to Rolling Stone magazine, "Dylan asked The Band's Rick Danko to come up with the melody, a slow and forlorn thing that also managed to catch the despair of abandonment."

Born in 1943 in Ontario, Canada, Rick Danko was a musician and songwriter who played bass in The Band. He recorded a new studio version of "This Wheel's on Fire" with Garth Hudson on accordion for his solo album "Times Like These," which was released in 2000 after his death.

The Band once played with Ronnie Hawkins as The Hawks. Mick Jagger is a member of the Rolling Stones.

Answer: Music from the Big Pink

The album was released in 1968 and rose to number 40 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Albums Chart. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the song "got a shot of adrenaline and a funky keyboard part" when The Band recorded it on "Music from the Big Pink." Live versions by the Band were included on their 1972 album "Rock of Ages" and the 2002 box set of "The Last Waltz."

"Blonde on Blonde," "Modern Times," and "John Wesley Harding" were all Bob Dylan albums.

Answer: Byrds

Rolling Stone magazine called the Byrds' version on "Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde" the "definitive cover" and wrote that "Clarence White's searing fuzz guitar sounds like apocalypse arrived." The album, produced by Bob Johnson, combined country rock with psychedelic rock and peaked at 153 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.

Answer: The Basement Tapes

"The Basement Tapes" is a 1975 box set containing recording sessions of Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967 at Dylan's house in Woodstock as well as recordings of The Band in 1967 and 1968, with overdubs added in 1975. It was released between Dylan's albums "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire."

Answer: Levon Helm

"This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band" was co-written with Stephen Davis, a music journalist. While it tells of Helm's childhood and career as a musician and actor, it primarily focuses on his time as the drummer and one of the singers for The Band.

Helm often performed "This Wheel's on Fire" live with the Levon Helm Band, which featured his daughter Amy and The Band's last guitarist, Jim Weider.

Answer: memory

The song opens:

"If your memory serves you well
We're going to meet again and wait
So I'm going to unpack all my things
And sit before it gets too late
No man alive will come to you
With another tale to tell
And you know that we shall meet again
If your memory serves you well."

According to the Official Bob Dylan website, Bob Dylan has performed this song live over 120 times between April 23, 1996 and July 22, 2012. Versions of the song have appeared on his albums "Bootleg Series Volume 11" and "The Rolling Thunder Revue," in addition to the release with The Band on "Basement Tapes."

Answer: road

"This wheel's on fire, rolling down the road
Best notify my next of kin
This wheel shall explode."

The wheel on fire may represent the singer's anticipation of death. This song has been covered by various artists ranging from Elvis Costello, the Hollies, and Rat Scabies to Golden Earring, Hamilton Camp, and Phil Lesh. When Levon Helm died, the Levon Helm Band performed the song at the 2012 "Love for Levon" benefit tribute concert.

Answer: lace

"If your memory serves you well, I was going to confiscate your lace
And wrap it up in a sailor's knot and hide it in your case.
If I knew for sure that it was yours, and it was oh so hard to tell
And you know that we shall meet again if your memory serves you well."

On The Band's originally recorded version of the song, Robbie Robertson played electric guitar. Rick Danko supplied the lead vocals and played bass guitar. Levon Helm supplied drums and backing vocals, while Richard Manuel played piano. Finally, Garth Hudson played clavinet and Lowrey organ on the song.

Answer: favors

"If your memory serves you well, you'll remember that you're the one
Who called on them to call on me to get you your favors done
And after every plan had failed and there was nothing more to tell
And you know that we shall meet again if your memory serves you well."

"It is Dylan's sneering promise," Rolling Stone magazine writes, "in his original 1967 Basement Tapes vocal - that the betrayal implied in the first two verses and made plain in" the one above "will be avenged in full in the future."

Rolling Stone magazine rated "This Wheel's on Fire" 17th on its list of "The 100 Greatest Bob Dylan Songs of All Time."

Answer: Siouxsie and the Banshees

"Through the Looking Glass" was the eighth studio album of British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, and it consisted entirely of covers. Their version of "This Wheel's on Fire" was released as a single and peaked at number 14 on the UK singles chart.

The song has also been covered by Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and the Trinity and the Australian pop group Flake. Flake's version was a top 20 hit on the Go-Set National Top 60 chart.