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Bob Dylan – Town Hall – New York City, New York – 12 April 1963

Posted on April 12, 2013 by | 3 Comments

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This ranks high as one of the most important boot releases of all time, and on top of that, it’s simply a thrill and a joy to just sit back and listen to. If you’re only planning on getting one bootleg this decade, this is the one. Hands down.
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Bob Dylan plays his first major solo concert at a major New York concert venue; Town Hall. He still hadn’t released his groundbreaking second album and chose only to play 3 songs from his first album. A confident young Dylan mostly playing songs unknown to the audience & ending with a long spoken poem called “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie”.

The Town Hall was about three-quarter full…. not bad considering his only released album had been a “flop”.

It was/is a GREAT concert… a “must” for any Dylan fan.

The first bootleg recording (with some songs from the concert) started circulating in 1970. The full concert recording started circulating in 2008 (superb soundboard sound).

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A highlight among highlights! …… It’s a tender and beautiful one with Bob’s voice going into higher registers. He starts of joking that it’s a difficult song to sing and that he might not be able to; but he pulls it of incredibly well.
~bobsboots.com (about Don’t Think Twice)

#20 – Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright 

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Bob Dylan – Top 200 songs accoding to Egil

Posted on February 6, 2013 by | 15 Comments

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This is an ongoing series… I will fill in the holes as I create new posts…

1. Visions Of Johanna
1. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Tangled Up in Blue
4. Ballad Of A Thin Man
5. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6. Blind Willie McTell (electric version)
7. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
8. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
9. Desolation Row
10. Idiot Wind (New York version)
11. NEW - Every Grain Of Sand
12. Mr. Tambourine Man
13. Positively 4th Street
14. Subterranean Homesick Blues
15. Mississippi
16. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
17. She’s Your Lover Now
18. Brownsville Girl
23. Just Like A Woman

35. Caribbean Wind

43. Dignity

46.It Ain’t Me Babe

49. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

56. If You See Her, Say Hello

62. Series Of Dreams (NEW)

100. This Wheel’s On Fire

113. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky

120. Lonesome Day Blues

148. Lenny Bruce

-Egil

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Bob Dylan’s best songs – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – #16, released version

Posted on December 6, 2012 by | 4 Comments

The hard rain is gonna fall is in the last verse when I say “when the pellets of poison are flooding the waters”. I mean, all the lies, you know, all the lies that people get told on their radios and their newspapers which, all you have to do is
just think for a minute, y’know, try and take peoples brains away, y’know, which maybe’s been done already. I dunno, maybe, I hate to think it’s been done, but all the lies, which are considered poison, y’know, er…
Bob Dylan (to Studs Terkel, April 63)

‘Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’… I wrote the words of it on a piece of paper. But there was just no tune that really fit to it, so I just sort of play chords without a tune. If all this comes under the heading of a definition, then I don’t care really to define what I do. Other people seem to have a hard time doing that.
~Bob Dylan (to Max Jones, May 64)

From “The Witmark Demos” (Bootleg Series 9):

@ #16 on my list of Dylan’s 200 best songs. The original version from “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” was recorded on December 6 – 1962…. 50 year’s ago today. The Witmark version above was recorded sometime in December 62.

‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’, recorded December 6, 1962, is another song whose genius and power are so great that our analytical minds (not our hearts) may have difficulty accepting and recognizing it’s simplicity.
~Paul Williams (Performing Artist 60-73)

from 1964:

 

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Bob Dylan played The Summit – Houston, Texas 12 November 1981

Posted on November 12, 2012 by | 2 Comments

 Dylan sounds well-oiled with alcohol on the Houston tape, his voice very low and rich, his commentary between songs (and his pacing, when he talks) bizarre and rather charming. That voice!
If you love Dylan’s work, then you must somehow get hold of copies of “Simple Twist of Fate” and “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” from Houston, 11/12/1981. And “Solid Rock”.
~Paul Williams (Performing Artist 74-86)

Another amazing concert from the 81-tour. Great sounding youtube’s. I will of course include the 3 songs mentioned by PW.

But first….

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll:

How can I describe that voice? I cannot. There’s so much in it. It is full of detail, full of flavor, bursting with life. I suppose it is my job to explain how this is done, but I can’t begin to guess. I can only gesture awkwardly and enthusiastically at the result.  And listen, and take in, and listen again, with enduring pleasure and awe.
~Paul Williams (describing “Simple Twist of Fate”  from this show)

Here it is - Simple Twist of Fate:

Setlist:

  1. Gotta Serve Somebody
  2. I Believe In You
  3. Like A Rolling Stone
  4. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
  5. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
  6. Maggie’s Farm
  7. Girl From The North Country
  8. Ballad Of A Thin Man
  9. Simple Twist Of Fate
  10. Heart Of Mine
  11. All Along The Watchtower
  12. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
  13. Forever Young
  14. Gamblin’ Man (trad.)
  15. The Times They Are A-Changin’
  16. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
  17. Watered-Down Love
  18. Shot Of Love
  19. Just Like A Woman
  20. Solid Rock
  21. Masters Of War
  22. When You Gonna Wake Up
  23. In The Garden
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  24. Blowin’ In The Wind
  25. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
  26. It Ain’t Me, Babe
  27. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

“Hard Rain” from Houston is simply one of the all-time great performances of this great song.
~Paul Williams

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall:

Personnel:

  • Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar)
  • Fred Tackett (guitar)
  • Steve Ripley (guitar)
  • Al Kooper (keyboards)
  • Tim Drummond (bass)
  • Jim Keltner (drums)
  • Arthur Rosato (drums)
  • Clydie King, Regina Havis, Madelyn Quebec (background vocals).
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Both the Nashville (11/14) & the Houston performances of this song are outstanding, exemplary works of religious art – like medieval paintings of the crucifixion, filled with the painter’s own feelings about mortality and faith and despair and about the human condition at the time of painting as well as at the time of crucifying. Time is collapsed in such art….
~Paul Williams (about “Solid Rock” – from “Performing Artist 74-86)

Solid Rock:

-Egil

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