Sing A Little Bit Of These Workingman's Blues
source: Nov. 11 & 12, Audience
tape
Tracks:
Disc one
November
11:
Maggie’s Farm
She Belongs To Me
Lonesome Day Blues
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Workingman’s Blues #2
Tangled Up In Blue
Blind Willie McTell
Most Likely You Go Your Way
Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Disc two
Highway 61 Revisited
Spirit On The Water
Summer Days
encore:
Thunder On The Mountain
Like A Rolling Stone
Bob
talks to the audience
All Along The
Watchtower
November 12:
Absolutely
Sweet Marie
Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
Honest With Me
Positively
4th Street
Masters Of War
Disc three
‘Till I Fell In Love With You
When The Deal Goes Down
Cold Irons Bound
Every
Grain Of Sand
Rollin’ And Tumblin’
Tangled Up In Blue
Nettie Moore
Highway 61 Revisited
encore:
Thunder On The Mountain
Like A Rolling Stone
band
introductions
All Along The Watchtower
Review:
This is a nice enough title from TMR, but there are a
few problems. Let's get those out of the way to start with. While the
package is chock full of concert photos, and a quick first glance could
start your heart racin' a little faster, a closer examination reveals
that most of them have lost a lot of clarity, and a couple are actually
quite blurry. While the fonts have the TMR trademark
clean and sharp look, and while the images on the liners and back cover
are nice, the two just don't work well together. Everything looks too
busy, and therefore hard to read. Unfortunately, things don't improve a
lot when you give the discs a listen. (cond.)
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Information:
source:
Agganis Arena, Boston, MA - Nov. 11
&
12, 2006
Manufacturer / Catalog No.
Tambourine Man / TMR-115/116/117
Released: 2007
Bob's Boots ref #
BB-s102
Review: (cont.)
While the sound quality of this audience recording is fairly good and clear... it's not great. There seems to be a lot of
rumble at times. Not quite up to the crystal clean quality that we've
been spoiled with as of late. This is Bob's first appearance at the
home
of the Boston Terriers. Being primarily designed as the University's
hockey rink, perhaps the acoustics are not geared to live
music. I truly don't know, as this is the first time that I've heard of
the building that was evidently named for the 1954 Red
Sox first-baseman. And now, for the worst news of all. There is a
splice
after When The Deal Goes Down
on the third disc, and it picks back up with Every
Grain Of Sand. Cold Irons Bound has been
completely cut out, even though it is
listed on the cover! Don't get your hopes up if your disc player logs
eleven tracks to start with. It's only because the band introduction
has been given its own track. If the reader can overlook this huge faux
paux, then there are some good things to be said. Firstly, it is nice
to have both nights in one package. Between the two shows, over half of
the songs from Modern Times are presented with a passion. The album had
only been on the streets for a few weeks, and this was the first time
that the majority of the audience had heard these songs live. Other
highlights from the first night include, perhaps the highlight of the
entire show, a heartfelt She Belongs
To Me. It amazes me to see Bob still so passionate and immersed
in a song that debuted over forty years ago. The other would be Blind Willie McTell.
It's dark and brooding and powerful. As for the second night, the
highlights other than Modern Times
songs would have to be a menacing Señor,
and a soul searching version of Every
Grain Of Sand. I don't think that I'm
being biased even though these songs are among my personal favorites to
start with. The knock down drag out winner of the night, however, has
to be Nettie Moore. It rivals
the album version, and is arguably the best performance on this set. © 2008 CD Pinkerton
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