High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Watching the River Flow" is a song by Bob Dylan. It was written and recorded during sessions in spring 1971 at Blue Rock Studios in New York City, and produced by Leon Russell. The recording was issued as a single on June 3, 1971, backed with "Spanish is the Loving Tongue". It reached the Top 40 in a number of countries, and No. 41 in the USA. It was included on Bob Dylan`s Greatest Hits Vol. II, released on November 17, 1971, and has appeared on various other Dylan compilation albums. Since 1987, Dylan has performed the composition often at his concerts. Critics have written that, in this song, Dylan sang about the temptation to withdraw from public life, and the problem of lack of inspiration.