..His talent takes many forms. He is one of the most compelling white blues singers ever recorded. He is a songwriter of exceptional facility and cleverness. He is an uncommonly skillful guitar player and harmonica player.
~Stacy Williams (“Bob Dylan” LP. liner notes)Dylan’s first album can hardly be faulted. It is a brilliant debut, a performer’s tour de force,….
~Michael Gray (BD Encyclopedia)
Talkin’ New York:
“I was just sitting outside my house one day thinking about a name for this tour, when all of a sudden, I looked into the sky and I heard a boom! Then, boom, boom, boom, boom, rolling from west to east. So I figured that should be the name.”
– Bob Dylan
This is my favorite of Bob Dylan’s bootleg series, and one of the best live albums ever released.
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a concert tour Bob Dylan with a traveling caravan of notable musicians, including Joan Baez,Roger McGuinn, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Bob Neuwirth assembled the backing musicians, including T-Bone Burnett, Mick Ronson, David Mansfield, Steven Soles, and from the Desire sessions, violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, and drummer Howie Wyeth. The tour included 57 concerts in two legs—the first in the American northeast and Canada in the fall of 1975, and the second in the American south and southwest in the spring of 1976.
Tangled up in Blue:
Continue reading Nov 26: The Bootleg Series Vol 5 Bob Dylan Live 1975 was released in 2002
If Dylan’s songs were once protests looking for rectification — if his language was once phantasmagoric and tricky to decipher — well, that was wonderful, but things have changed. Tell Tale Signs sets a new milestone for this American artist. Dylan has always written about morally centerless times, but this collection comes from a different perspective — not something born of the existential moment but of the existential long view and the courage of dread. Jack Fate, Dylan’s character in Masked and Anonymous, intones what might work as the pracis for this album: “Seen from a fair garden, everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau, and you’ll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I tried to stop figuring everything out a long time ago.” For a long time, we’ve asked Dylan to deliver us truths. Now that he has, we need to ask ourselves if we can live with them.
~Mikal Gilmore (rollingstone.com)
Original challenge:
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I hereby challenge all readers to put out their personal list of the 10 best songs from Bob Dylan’s lovely “The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006”.
Top 5 is also appreciated.
Use the comments section in this post or check out our Facebook page.
The poll will be open till Tuesday’ish.
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| 1 | Red River Shore (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) | 36 points |
| 2 | Cross the Green Mountain (from the Gods and Generals soundtrack) | 31 points |
| 3 | Born in Time (Unreleased #1, Oh Mercy) | 29 points |
| 4 | Tell Ol’ Bill (Alternate version of song released on the North Country soundtrack) | 28 points |
| 5 | Huck’s Tune (From the Lucky You soundtrack) | 27 points |
| 6 | Mississippi (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) | 17 points |
| 7 | Most Of The Time (Alternate version #1, Oh Mercy) | 16 points |
| 8 | Can’t Wait (Alternate version #1, Time Out of Mind) | 14 points |
| 9 | Dreamin’ of You (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) | 13 points |
| 10 | Ring Them Bells* (Live at The Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY) | 9 points |
| 11 | High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) | 8 points |
| 12 | Marchin’ to the City (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) | 7 points |
| 13 | Ain’t Talkin’ (Alternate version, Modern Times) | 6 points |
| 13 | Dignity (Piano demo, Oh Mercy) | 6 points |
| 13 | Everything Is Broken (Alternate version, Oh Mercy) | 6 points |
| 13 | Series of Dreams (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) | 6 points |
| 13 | Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (Live, October 5, 2000, London, England) | 6 points |
| 13 | Can’t Escape from You (Unreleased, December 2005 recording) | 6 points |
| 19 | 32-20 Blues (Robert Johnson) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong) | 5 points |
| 20 | Mary and the Soldier (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong) | 3 points |
| 20 | Red River Shore (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind) | 3 points |
| 20 | Someday Baby (Alternate version, Modern Times) | 3 points |
* there are 3 versions of this song included on TTS & it was not clear from the votes which versions were chosen. I will presume everyone voted for the best one.. the supper club version.
Spotify (without songs from the bonus disc)
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My List:
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-Egil
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Link -> http://cuttingedge.bobdylan.com/
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Release date: November 6, 2015
There will be 3 versions:
Here @ alldylan.com we got about 1500 Bob Dylan posts alive. In this tribute I’ll try to give an overview & hopefully lead you [the reader] to material you might find interesting.
My favorite quote of all time is off course:
That he not busy being born is busy dying
~From – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding)
Dylan has always been busy being born. At the age of 74 he’s still [never ending] touring the world, performing at peak level, bringing awe & joy to those lucky enough to understand & participate. If you’re a true “performing artist”, you can’t retire. You gotta be yourself to the end. And we all know that Zimmy will not back down.
Enough with the chit chat, let’s get down to it.