Country Dreamer

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“Country Dreamer”
Single by Paul McCartney and Wings
from the album Band on the Run
(The Paul McCartney Collection)
B-side "Country Dreamer"
Released October 26, 1973 Flag of the United States
Format 7" single
Recorded 1972
Genre Country
Length 3:09
Label Apple Records
Writer(s) Paul McCartney
Producer Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings singles chronology
"Live and Let Die"/"I Lie Around"
(1972)
"Helen Wheels"/"Country Dreamer"
(1973)
"Mrs. Vandebilt"/"Bluebird"
(Europe)
(1973)

"Country Dreamer" is the B-side song to the single "Helen Wheels". Released on October 26, 1973, "Country Dreamer" was never released on an album. It was only released in 1993 as a bonus track to the album Band on the Run in The Paul McCartney Collection. It was recorded in October of 1973, and its country ambience reminds many of the B-side "Heart of the Country" from Paul McCartney's Ram sessions from 1971. The song was originally intended to be on Red Rose Speedway back when it was to be a double album. It does appear on the 1987 CD release of Red Rose Speedway as a bonus track.