Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts
Elvis Costello and company working on "new" Basement Tapes featuring lost Dylan tunes
Sounds interesting:
Recording is nearly complete for Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, an album project from Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons) and producer T Bone Burnett, who are in Capitol Studios together to create music for two-dozen recently discovered lyrics written by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the period that generated the recording of the legendary Basement Tapes.
The album will be released later this year by Electromagnetic Recordings/Harvest Records (Capitol Music Group), and will be accompanied by a Showtime documentary titled, Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, directed by Sam Jones (the Wilco documentary, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart). The film will present an exclusive and intimate look at the making of Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes set against the important and historical cultural backdrop of Bob Dylan’s original Basement Tapes.
Bob Dylan’s original Basement Tapes – recorded by Dylan in 1967 with musicians who would later achieve their own fame as The Band – have fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics for nearly five decades. This collective recorded more than a hundred songs in the basement of a small house in upstate New York that summer and fall, including dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan future classics such as, “I Shall Be Released,” “The Mighty Quinn,” “This Wheel’s On Fire,” “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” and “Tears Of Rage.”
Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes celebrates the discovery of new Bob Dylan lyrics from that noted 1967 period and marks a unique creative opportunity for Burnett, Costello, Giddens, Goldsmith, James and Mumford, who are bringing them to life nearly 50 years later. For Burnett, whom Dylan has entrusted with this endeavor, it was imperative to provide an environment in which these artists could thrive. “Great music is best created when a community of artists gets together for the common good. There is a deep well of generosity and support in the room at all times, and that reflects the tremendous generosity shown by Bob in sharing these lyrics with us.”
According to Jones, “The discovery of these previously unknown Bob Dylan songs that were thought lost since 1967 is the stuff of Hollywood fiction and a find of truly historical proportions. It is a unique opportunity to film T Bone and these great artists as they collaborate with a young Bob Dylan, and each other, to create new songs and recordings. These days and nights in the studio have been nothing less than magical.” Jones will weave these studio sessions into a broader narrative that will incorporate the stories behind the original Basement Tapes, expound on their cultural significance and chart their enduring influence.
The Basement Tapes — Background
Bob Dylan is universally regarded as one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 125 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world spanning six decades. His influence and impact on our culture is unparalleled, and his artistic output of recordings and songs are both cultural landmarks and the genesis of countless great songwriters and musicians that have emerged in the decades since Dylan exploded onto the global stage.
Among Dylan’s many cultural milestones, the legendary Basement Tapes — dozens of songs written and recorded by Dylan in 1967, backed by members of his touring ensemble who would later achieve their own fame as The Band — have fascinated and enticed successive generations of musicians, fans and cultural critics alike. Having transformed music and culture during the preceding five years, Dylan had reached unparalleled heights by the mid-1960s through the release of three historic albums, the groundbreaking single, “Like A Rolling Stone,” a controversial and legendary ‘electric’ performance at the Newport Folk Festival and wildly polarizing tours of the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. Dylan’s mercurial rise and prodigious body of work in that decade came to an abrupt end in July, 1966 when he was reported to be nearly killed in a motorcycle accident in upstate New York.
Recovering from his injuries and away from the public eye for the first time in years, Dylan ensconced himself, along with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson, in the basement of a small house in West Saugerties, New York – dubbed “Big Pink” by the group. This collective recorded more than a hundred songs over the next several months – traditional covers, wry and humorous ditties, off-the cuff performances and, most important, dozens of newly-written Bob Dylan songs, including future classics “I Shall Be Released,” “The Mighty Quinn,” This Wheel’s On Fire,” “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” and “Tears Of Rage.”
When rumors and rare acetates of some of these recordings began surfacing, it created a curiosity strong enough to fuel an entirely new segment of the music business: the bootleg record. In 1969 an album mysteriously titled Great White Wonder began showing up in record shops around the country, and the music from that summer of 1967 started seeping into the fabric of our culture and penetrating the souls of music lovers everywhere. With each passing year, more and more fans sought out this rare contraband, desperate to hear new music from the legendary Bob Dylan. The actual recordings, however, remained commercially unavailable until 1975, when Columbia Records released a scant 16 of them on The Basement Tapes album.
The decades since these legendary recordings were made in that West Saugerties basement have seen publication of countless books and articles on the influence and importance of The Basement Tapes, and all surviving material from those sessions had been long thought released. Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes marks the discovery of new Bob Dylan songs from that 1967 period and a creative highpoint for five contemporary artists and the legendary producer who will bring them to life nearly 50 years later.
Video teases re-release of "Dylan's Gospel"
Back in 1969, record producer Lou Adler collected 20-plus session singers -- billed as Brothers and Sisters -- and recorded a covers album of Bob Dylan tunes in a gospel. Hard to find since, the LP is being reissued in April. Here's a teaser.
Hear a lost Dylan track: Pretty Saro from upcoming Another Self Portrait set
Check out this video for "Pretty Saro," an 18th-century English folk song Bob Dylan recorded, but never released, during sessions for his Self Portrait album.
The song is included in Another Self-Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, a compilation of songs Dylan cut for his 'Nashville Skyline', 'Self Portrait' and 'New Morning' album. The collection is out Aug. 27.
The song is included in Another Self-Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, a compilation of songs Dylan cut for his 'Nashville Skyline', 'Self Portrait' and 'New Morning' album. The collection is out Aug. 27.
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 10 focuses on "Self Portrait"
Info about the latest Bob Dylan Bootleg Series collection, out Aug. 27.
1 Went To See The Gypsy (Demo)
2 In Search Of Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
3 Pretty Saro (unreleased, Self Portrait)
4 Alberta #3 (alternate version, Self Portrait)
5 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (unreleased, Self Portrait)
6 Annie's Going To Sing Her Song (unreleased, Self Portrait)
7 Time Passes Slowly #1 (alternate version, New Morning)
8 Only A Hobo (unreleased, Greatest Hits II)
9 Minstrel Boy (unreleased, The Basement Tapes)
10 I Threw It All Away (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
11 Railroad Bill (unreleased, Self Portrait)
12 Thirsty Boots (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 This Evening So Soon (unreleased, Self Portrait)
14 These Hands (unreleased, Self Portrait)
15 Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
16 House Carpenter (unreleased, Self Portrait)
17 All The Tired Horses (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
CD 2
1 If Not For You (alternate version, New Morning)
2 Wallflower (alternate version, 1971)
3 Wigwam (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
4 Days Of '49 (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
5 Working On A Guru (unreleased, New Morning)
6 Country Pie (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
7 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
8 Highway 61 Revisited (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
9 Copper Kettle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
10 Bring Me A Little Water (unreleased, New Morning)
11 Sign On The Window (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning)
12 Tattle O'Day (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 If Dogs Run Free (alternate version, New Morning)
14 New Morning (with horn section overdubs, New Morning)
15 Went To See The Gypsy (alternate version, New Morning)
16 Belle Isle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
17 Time Passes Slowly #2 (alternate version, New Morning)
18 When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)
CD3
Bob Dylan & The Band - Isle of Wight - August 31, 1969
1 She Belongs To Me
2 I Threw It All Away
3 Maggie's Farm
4 Wild Mountain Thyme
5 It Ain't Me, Babe
6 To Ramona/ Mr. Tambourine Man
7 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
8 Lay Lady Lay
9 Highway 61 Revisited
10 One Too Many Mornings
11 I Pity The Poor Immigrant
12 Like A Rolling Stone
13 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
14 Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
15 Minstrel Boy
16 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
CD4
Self Portrait
(Remaster of original release)
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Volume 10 comes from the 1969-1971 recording sessions that ultimately produced the Self Portrait and New Morning albums. All 35 tracks are previously unreleased, alternate takes, demos or live versions of that material. The versions of the songs on this package are radically different from the officially released versions. The cover is new artwork by Bob Dylan. The liner notes have been written by Greil Marcus, who wrote the original Self Portrait review for Rolling Stone that infamously asked, "What is this sh**?." Also included is an extensive essay from well known journalist, Michael Simmons. The set also has extensive photographs of that era from John Cohen and Al Clayton many of them rare and unseen - as well as pictures of the original tape boxes and cue sheets.CD 1
The Standard Version contains 35 tracks on 2 CD's, and soft cover perfect bound booklet
The Deluxe Version contains 4 CD's and two hardcover books housed in a hardcover slip case
Book # 1 contains 4 CD's and liner notes
Book # 2 contains the photos from John Cohen and Al Clayton.
The 2 bonus CD's will contain the newly remastered version of Self Portrait and the complete 17 song recording of Dylan & The Band performing live at the Isle Of Wight in 1969
The vinyl version contains 35 tracks on 3 LPs (and 2 CDs) plus a 12" x 12" booklet that includes the liner notes written by Greil Marcus, the essay from Michael Simmons, and the photographs from John Cohen and Al Clayton, and pictures of the original tape boxes and cue sheets.
1 Went To See The Gypsy (Demo)
2 In Search Of Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
3 Pretty Saro (unreleased, Self Portrait)
4 Alberta #3 (alternate version, Self Portrait)
5 Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (unreleased, Self Portrait)
6 Annie's Going To Sing Her Song (unreleased, Self Portrait)
7 Time Passes Slowly #1 (alternate version, New Morning)
8 Only A Hobo (unreleased, Greatest Hits II)
9 Minstrel Boy (unreleased, The Basement Tapes)
10 I Threw It All Away (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
11 Railroad Bill (unreleased, Self Portrait)
12 Thirsty Boots (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 This Evening So Soon (unreleased, Self Portrait)
14 These Hands (unreleased, Self Portrait)
15 Little Sadie (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
16 House Carpenter (unreleased, Self Portrait)
17 All The Tired Horses (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
CD 2
1 If Not For You (alternate version, New Morning)
2 Wallflower (alternate version, 1971)
3 Wigwam (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
4 Days Of '49 (original version without overdubs, Self Portrait)
5 Working On A Guru (unreleased, New Morning)
6 Country Pie (alternate version, Nashville Skyline)
7 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
8 Highway 61 Revisited (Live With The Band, Isle Of Wight 1969)
9 Copper Kettle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
10 Bring Me A Little Water (unreleased, New Morning)
11 Sign On The Window (with orchestral overdubs, New Morning)
12 Tattle O'Day (unreleased, Self Portrait)
13 If Dogs Run Free (alternate version, New Morning)
14 New Morning (with horn section overdubs, New Morning)
15 Went To See The Gypsy (alternate version, New Morning)
16 Belle Isle (without overdubs, Self Portrait)
17 Time Passes Slowly #2 (alternate version, New Morning)
18 When I Paint My Masterpiece (demo)
CD3
Bob Dylan & The Band - Isle of Wight - August 31, 1969
1 She Belongs To Me
2 I Threw It All Away
3 Maggie's Farm
4 Wild Mountain Thyme
5 It Ain't Me, Babe
6 To Ramona/ Mr. Tambourine Man
7 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
8 Lay Lady Lay
9 Highway 61 Revisited
10 One Too Many Mornings
11 I Pity The Poor Immigrant
12 Like A Rolling Stone
13 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
14 Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
15 Minstrel Boy
16 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
CD4
Self Portrait
(Remaster of original release)
Very limited-edition Dylan box set is all about copyright protection
An interesting article in the UK Guardian details how a new box set of Bob Dylan demos, limited to only 100 copies, is a tactic to provide copyright protection for the material, which otherwise could be freely boolegged in Europe.
The gist is, by "officially" releasing it now, Dylan's label can prevent bootlegging of the songs and release them more widely at a later date.
The gist is, by "officially" releasing it now, Dylan's label can prevent bootlegging of the songs and release them more widely at a later date.
Although the European Union has extended copyright terms from 50 years to 70 years, the extension only applies to recordings that have been released during the 50 years after they were made. Sony was therefore forced to release these songs – albeit in limited form – before the end of 2012, when their half-century was up.
"This isn't a scheme to make money," a source explained to Rolling Stone. "The whole point of copyrighting [this material] is that we intend to do something with it at some point in the future. But it wasn't the right time to do it right after [Dylan] released Tempest."
Pop culture roundup: Gore Vidal on Tarzan; Bob Dylan's new LP; the Man from Krypton
Author Gore Vidal died earlier this week and, though famed for
his great intellect, was never too high falutin' to enjoy some of the
great pop cultural pleasures of life, such as Tarzan. Here's an essay Vidal penned, which details how the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs fired his youthful imagination.
Bob Dylan shares some details on his new album, Tempest, which is out in September.
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Kid Robson remembers the "Man from Krypton" storyline from early Superman comics. I also miss the days when comics creators could subtly readjust a character's status quo without conjuring up some sort of "big event" to do so.
When I was growing up, I read all twenty-three Tarzan books, as well as the ten Mars books. My own inner storytelling mechanism was vivid. At any one time, I had at least three serials going as well as a number of old faithful reruns. I used Burroughs as a source of raw material. When he went to the center of the earth a la Jules Verne (much too fancy a writer for one’s taste), I immediately worked up a thirteen-part series, with myself as lead, and various friends as guest stars. Sometimes I used the master’s material, but more often I adapted it freely to suit myself. One’s daydreams intended to be Tarzanish post-puberty (physical strength and freedom) and Martian post-puberty (exotic worlds and subtle combinaziones to be worked out). After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. My last serial ran into sponsor trouble when I was in the Second World War and was never renewed.-----
Bob Dylan shares some details on his new album, Tempest, which is out in September.
The title track is a nearly 14-minute depiction of the Titanic disaster. Numerous folk and gospel songs gave accounts of the event, including the Carter Family's "The Titanic," which Dylan drew from. "I was just fooling with that one night," he says. "I liked that melody – I liked it a lot. 'Maybe I'm gonna appropriate this melody.' But where would I go with it?" Elements of Dylan's vision of the Titanic are familiar – historical figures, the inescapable finality. But it's not all grounded in fact: The ship's decks are places of madness ("Brother rose up against brother. They fought and slaughtered each other"), and even Leonardo DiCaprio appears. ("Yeah, Leo," says Dylan. "I don't think the song would be the same without him. Or the movie.") "People are going to say, 'Well, it's not very truthful,' " says Dylan. "But a songwriter doesn't care about what's truthful. What he cares about is what should've happened, what could've happened. That's its own kind of truth. It's like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name."
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Kid Robson remembers the "Man from Krypton" storyline from early Superman comics. I also miss the days when comics creators could subtly readjust a character's status quo without conjuring up some sort of "big event" to do so.
New Dylan song featured on TV show trailer
"Early Roman Kings," a song from Bob Dylan's upcoming LP, Tempest, is featured in the teaser for Cinemax's series "Strike Back." Check it out:
Bob Dylan announces Bootleg Series 9
Out Oct. 18, The Bootleg Series Volume 9 - The Witmark Demos is a two-CD package that collects 47 tracks Dylan recorded for music publishers Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons between 1962 and 1964.
Here's the tracklist:
Disc 1
'Man On The Street (Fragment)'
'Hard Times In New York Town'
'Poor Boy Blues'
'Ballad For A Friend'
'Rambling, Gambling Willie'
'Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues'
'Standing On The Highway'
'Man On The Street'
'Blowin’ In The Wind'
'Long Ago, Far Away'
'A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall'
'Tomorrow Is A Long Time'
'The Death of Emmett Till'
'Let Me Die In My Footsteps'
'Ballad Of Hollis Brown'
'Quit Your Low Down Ways'
'Baby, I’m In The Mood For You'
'Bound To Lose, Bound To Win'
'All Over You'
'I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day'
'Long Time Gone'
'Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues'
'Masters Of War'
'Oxford Town'
'Farewell'
Disc 2
'Don't Think Twice, It’s All Right'
'Walkin’ Down The Line'
'I Shall Be Free'
'Bob Dylan’s Blues'
'Bob Dylan’s Dream'
'Boots Of Spanish Leather'
'Walls of Red Wing'
'Girl From The North Country'
'Seven Curses'
'Hero Blues'
'Whatcha Gonna Do?'
'Gypsy Lou'
'Ain’t Gonna Grieve'
'John Brown'
'Only A Hobo'
'When The Ship Comes In'
'The Times They Are A-Changin''
'Paths Of Victory'
'Guess I’m Doing Fine'
'Baby Let Me Follow You Down'
'Mama, You Been On My Mind'
'Mr. Tambourine Man'
'I’ll Keep It With Mine'
Here's the tracklist:
Disc 1
'Man On The Street (Fragment)'
'Hard Times In New York Town'
'Poor Boy Blues'
'Ballad For A Friend'
'Rambling, Gambling Willie'
'Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues'
'Standing On The Highway'
'Man On The Street'
'Blowin’ In The Wind'
'Long Ago, Far Away'
'A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall'
'Tomorrow Is A Long Time'
'The Death of Emmett Till'
'Let Me Die In My Footsteps'
'Ballad Of Hollis Brown'
'Quit Your Low Down Ways'
'Baby, I’m In The Mood For You'
'Bound To Lose, Bound To Win'
'All Over You'
'I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day'
'Long Time Gone'
'Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues'
'Masters Of War'
'Oxford Town'
'Farewell'
Disc 2
'Don't Think Twice, It’s All Right'
'Walkin’ Down The Line'
'I Shall Be Free'
'Bob Dylan’s Blues'
'Bob Dylan’s Dream'
'Boots Of Spanish Leather'
'Walls of Red Wing'
'Girl From The North Country'
'Seven Curses'
'Hero Blues'
'Whatcha Gonna Do?'
'Gypsy Lou'
'Ain’t Gonna Grieve'
'John Brown'
'Only A Hobo'
'When The Ship Comes In'
'The Times They Are A-Changin''
'Paths Of Victory'
'Guess I’m Doing Fine'
'Baby Let Me Follow You Down'
'Mama, You Been On My Mind'
'Mr. Tambourine Man'
'I’ll Keep It With Mine'
Official details on Bob Dylan's Christmas album
It's for real. Details from Dylan's official site:
Dear Friends,
We at Columbia Records are happy to announce the October 13 release of Bob Dylan's brand new album of holiday songs, Christmas In The Heart.
Christmas In The Heart will be the 47th album from Bob Dylan, and follows his worldwide chart-topping Together Through Life, released earlier this year. Songs performed by Dylan on this new album include, "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Winter Wonderland," "Little Drummer Boy" and "Must Be Santa."
All of Bob Dylan's U.S. royalties from sales of these recordings will be donated to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to more than 1.4 million people in need in this country during this year's holiday season. Bob Dylan is also donating all of his future U.S. royalties from this album to Feeding America in perpetuity.
Additionally, Bob Dylan is partnering with two international charities to provide meals during the holidays for millions in need in the United Kingdom and the developing world, and will be donating all of his future international royalties from Christmas In The Heart to those organizations in perpetuity. Details regarding the international partnerships will be announced next week.
Bob Dylan commented, "It's a tragedy that more than 35 million people in this country alone -- 12 million of those children -- often go to bed hungry and wake up each morning unsure of where their next meal is coming from. I join the good people of Feeding America in the hope that our efforts can bring some food security to people in need during this holiday season."
Your friends at Columbia Records
Dear Friends,
We at Columbia Records are happy to announce the October 13 release of Bob Dylan's brand new album of holiday songs, Christmas In The Heart.
Christmas In The Heart will be the 47th album from Bob Dylan, and follows his worldwide chart-topping Together Through Life, released earlier this year. Songs performed by Dylan on this new album include, "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Winter Wonderland," "Little Drummer Boy" and "Must Be Santa."
All of Bob Dylan's U.S. royalties from sales of these recordings will be donated to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to more than 1.4 million people in need in this country during this year's holiday season. Bob Dylan is also donating all of his future U.S. royalties from this album to Feeding America in perpetuity.
Additionally, Bob Dylan is partnering with two international charities to provide meals during the holidays for millions in need in the United Kingdom and the developing world, and will be donating all of his future international royalties from Christmas In The Heart to those organizations in perpetuity. Details regarding the international partnerships will be announced next week.
Bob Dylan commented, "It's a tragedy that more than 35 million people in this country alone -- 12 million of those children -- often go to bed hungry and wake up each morning unsure of where their next meal is coming from. I join the good people of Feeding America in the hope that our efforts can bring some food security to people in need during this holiday season."
Your friends at Columbia Records
More Dylan rarities on the way
Another batch of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings is due out Oct. 7, Billboard reports.
Tell Tale Signs is the eighth volume in Dylan's "Bootleg Series." The triple-CD set will include a variety of live and studio recordings, mostly from the past 20 years.
Here's the track list:
Disc one:
"Mississippi" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Most of the Time" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Dignity" (Piano demo, "Oh Mercy")
"Someday Baby" (Alternate version, "Modern Times")
"Red River Shore" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Tell 'Ole Bill" (Alternate version, "North Country" soundtrack)
"Born in Time" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Can't Wait" (Alternate version, "Time Out of Mind")
"Everything is Broken" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Dreamin' of You" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Huck's Tune" (From "Lucky You" soundtrack)
"Marching to the City" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"High Water (For Charley Patton)" (Live, Niagara, 2003)
Disc two:
"Mississippi" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"32-20 Blues" (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
"Series of Dreams" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"God Knows" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Can't Escape From You" (Unreleased, December 2005)
"Dignity" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Ring Them Bells" (Live at the Supper Club, 1993)
"Cocaine Blue" (Live, Vienna, Va., 1997)
"Ain't Talkin'" (Alternate version, "Modern Times")
"The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore" (Live, 1992)
"Lonesome Day Blues" (Live, Sunrise, Fla., 2002)
"Miss the Mississippi" (Unreleased, 1992)
"The Lonesome River" (With Ralph Stanley, from "Clinch Mountain Country")
"'Cross The Green Mountain" (From "Gods and Generals" soundtrack)
Disc three:
"Duncan And Brady" (Unreleased, 1992)
Cold Irons Bound" (Live, Bonnaroo, June 2004)
"Mississippi" (Unreleased version #3, "Time Out of Mind")
"Most Of The Time" (Alternate version #2, "Oh Mercy")
"Ring Them Bells" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Things Have Changed" (Live, Portland, Oregon, 2000)
"Red River Shore" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Born In Time" (Unreleased version #2, "Oh Mercy")
"Tryin' To Get To Heaven" (Live, London, 2000)
"Marchin' To The City" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Can't Wait" (Alternate version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Mary And The Soldier" (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
Tell Tale Signs is the eighth volume in Dylan's "Bootleg Series." The triple-CD set will include a variety of live and studio recordings, mostly from the past 20 years.
Here's the track list:
Disc one:
"Mississippi" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Most of the Time" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Dignity" (Piano demo, "Oh Mercy")
"Someday Baby" (Alternate version, "Modern Times")
"Red River Shore" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Tell 'Ole Bill" (Alternate version, "North Country" soundtrack)
"Born in Time" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Can't Wait" (Alternate version, "Time Out of Mind")
"Everything is Broken" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Dreamin' of You" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"Huck's Tune" (From "Lucky You" soundtrack)
"Marching to the City" (Unreleased, "Time Out of Mind")
"High Water (For Charley Patton)" (Live, Niagara, 2003)
Disc two:
"Mississippi" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"32-20 Blues" (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
"Series of Dreams" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"God Knows" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Can't Escape From You" (Unreleased, December 2005)
"Dignity" (Unreleased, "Oh Mercy")
"Ring Them Bells" (Live at the Supper Club, 1993)
"Cocaine Blue" (Live, Vienna, Va., 1997)
"Ain't Talkin'" (Alternate version, "Modern Times")
"The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore" (Live, 1992)
"Lonesome Day Blues" (Live, Sunrise, Fla., 2002)
"Miss the Mississippi" (Unreleased, 1992)
"The Lonesome River" (With Ralph Stanley, from "Clinch Mountain Country")
"'Cross The Green Mountain" (From "Gods and Generals" soundtrack)
Disc three:
"Duncan And Brady" (Unreleased, 1992)
Cold Irons Bound" (Live, Bonnaroo, June 2004)
"Mississippi" (Unreleased version #3, "Time Out of Mind")
"Most Of The Time" (Alternate version #2, "Oh Mercy")
"Ring Them Bells" (Alternate version, "Oh Mercy")
"Things Have Changed" (Live, Portland, Oregon, 2000)
"Red River Shore" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Born In Time" (Unreleased version #2, "Oh Mercy")
"Tryin' To Get To Heaven" (Live, London, 2000)
"Marchin' To The City" (Unreleased version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Can't Wait" (Alternate version #2, "Time Out of Mind")
"Mary And The Soldier" (Unreleased, "World Gone Wrong")
Another batch of Bob boots
Coming from Columbia Records Aug. 30:
Bob Dylan's "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7" is the latest edition in the critically acclaimed "Bootleg Series," as well as the companion soundtrack to the two-part feature-length film, "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan," a Martin Scorsese picture.
The film will make its U.S. premiere on the Public Broadcasting System's "American Masters Series" over the course of Monday and Tuesday nights, September 26-27th, respectively.
The two-CD chronologically sequenced package contains 28 Bob Dylan tracks -- 26 of them previously unreleased -- comprised of rare private recordings, live concert, television and festival recordings, and 12 alternate takes of songs from his Columbia LP recording sessions in New York and Nashville during this period. The songs range in time from 1959 (a high school recording of "When I Got Troubles," most likely the first original song he ever recorded), to 1966 (alternate takes of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from the "Blonde on Blonde" album recording sessions, as well as "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like A Rolling Stone" from the legendary 1966 UK tour).
Many of the songs or tracks are introduced in the film for the first time in history, or are representative of times and places covered in the film, while others are alternate takes of classic tracks that were unearthed during the making of the film. For example, the version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" performed in 1961, at the intimate Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City, was never known to have existed on any tape until now.
On the other hand, the "No Direction Home" film version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is taken from the Newport Folk Festival, July 1964; while the CD version presents -- for the first time -- the first complete take of the song with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, recorded at Columbia Studios the month before. The track is then followed on the CD by "Chimes of Freedom" from Newport '64.
Archivists and researchers reviewed more than 400 hours of recordings by Bob Dylan in the preparation of "No Direction Home." The two CDs will be packaged with a 60-page color book housed in a slipcase. The book will include separate liner notes written by Andrew Loog Oldham, and Al Kooper who sheds light on the "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" recording sessions in New York and Nashville (for which he played organ and served as musical director). An authoritative track-by-track delineation is also included.
The first feature-length film biography ever produced on the artist, "No Direction Home" is narrated in its entirety by Dylan. In addition to hours of black-and-white and color archival footage and photography, it features exclusive interviews with Joan Baez, photographer John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Glover, Al Kooper, Bruce Langhorne, Paul Nelson, Suze Rotolo, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Izzy Young of the Folklore Center, and many others.
You can pre-order the set now from Amazon. A DVD of the "No Direction Home" film also is available for pre-order, and is due out Sept. 20.
Bob Dylan's "No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Vol. 7" is the latest edition in the critically acclaimed "Bootleg Series," as well as the companion soundtrack to the two-part feature-length film, "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan," a Martin Scorsese picture.
The film will make its U.S. premiere on the Public Broadcasting System's "American Masters Series" over the course of Monday and Tuesday nights, September 26-27th, respectively.
The two-CD chronologically sequenced package contains 28 Bob Dylan tracks -- 26 of them previously unreleased -- comprised of rare private recordings, live concert, television and festival recordings, and 12 alternate takes of songs from his Columbia LP recording sessions in New York and Nashville during this period. The songs range in time from 1959 (a high school recording of "When I Got Troubles," most likely the first original song he ever recorded), to 1966 (alternate takes of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" from the "Blonde on Blonde" album recording sessions, as well as "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like A Rolling Stone" from the legendary 1966 UK tour).
Many of the songs or tracks are introduced in the film for the first time in history, or are representative of times and places covered in the film, while others are alternate takes of classic tracks that were unearthed during the making of the film. For example, the version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" performed in 1961, at the intimate Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York City, was never known to have existed on any tape until now.
On the other hand, the "No Direction Home" film version of "Mr. Tambourine Man" is taken from the Newport Folk Festival, July 1964; while the CD version presents -- for the first time -- the first complete take of the song with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, recorded at Columbia Studios the month before. The track is then followed on the CD by "Chimes of Freedom" from Newport '64.
Archivists and researchers reviewed more than 400 hours of recordings by Bob Dylan in the preparation of "No Direction Home." The two CDs will be packaged with a 60-page color book housed in a slipcase. The book will include separate liner notes written by Andrew Loog Oldham, and Al Kooper who sheds light on the "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Blonde on Blonde" recording sessions in New York and Nashville (for which he played organ and served as musical director). An authoritative track-by-track delineation is also included.
The first feature-length film biography ever produced on the artist, "No Direction Home" is narrated in its entirety by Dylan. In addition to hours of black-and-white and color archival footage and photography, it features exclusive interviews with Joan Baez, photographer John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Glover, Al Kooper, Bruce Langhorne, Paul Nelson, Suze Rotolo, Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk, Izzy Young of the Folklore Center, and many others.
You can pre-order the set now from Amazon. A DVD of the "No Direction Home" film also is available for pre-order, and is due out Sept. 20.
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