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| His Gotham Ingress source: Various 1961 venues Tracks: Oscar Brand: Sally Gal The Girl I Left Behind Carnegie Chapter Hall: Pretty Peggy-O In The Pines Gospel Plow 1913 Massacre Backwater Blues Young But Daily Growin' Fixin' To Die Air Chatter Bonnie Beecher Tape: Candy Man Baby Please Don't Go Hard Times In New York Stealin' Po' Lazarus I Ain't Got No Home It's Hard To Be Blind Dink's Song Man Of Constant Sorrow East Orange NJ Review: The title of this CD release is taken from the sub-title of an old vinyl release. It's explained on the entry for the vinyl album Are You Now...? The title is probably even more apt for this collection of familiar tapes than for that one, since the Carnegie Chapter Hall show - with its early appearance of the Nashville Skyline voice, on Young But Daily Growin' - predates Carnegie Hall by almost 2 years and is often referred to as Dylan's first notable concert. Also here are extracts from an Oscar Brand radio show on which he promoted it - telling what was probably a string of colorful lies to entertain Brand, and singing a couple of songs. Also included are 10 songs from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape," recorded just a few weeks later. The last number on the Beecher portion is not a song, but that stupid story about the chess club. And there isn't a newly surfaced song called Air Chatter: just 30 seconds of Dylan tuning up and preparing to "play something new" which isn't on the tape. There are some problems with the Chapter Hall show: distortion and phasing, and times when Dylan seems to have walked away from the microphone while he's talking (and talking and talking...) But most of the actual performances can be heard well. © 2004 CD Pinkerton bobsboots.com |
Thanks to Colm
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