![]() Through the 24-song set Dylan focuses on finger-pointing social justice songs like “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues,” “Who Killed Davey Moore” and “Masters Of War.” Columbia taped it for an official release and many tracks leaked out over the years, but in 2008 the complete soundboard appeared online with 10 unheard tunes. Near the height of his protest period Dylan played one of the biggest gigs of his career at New York’s Town Hall. Photos: Bob Dylan Hanging With Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg and More In less than two years he would hit the main stage at Carnegie Hall with an arsenal of original material. The highlight is Bukka White’s “Fixin’ to Die,” which also appeared on his debut. A great recording of half the show has circulated for years, though the inclusion of the previously unreleased “This Land Is Your Land” on the No Direction Home soundtrack seems to confirm that Columbia has the entire set in their vaults.Ĭlearly nervous to be on a big stage 40 blocks uptown from the Village, Dylan doesn’t play a single original, instead opting for tried-and-true tracks like Woody Guthrie’s “1913 Massacre,” which formed the basis for his own “Song To Woody” recorded just a few weeks later. As the man himself sang in 2001, “Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff.”ĭylan had been playing New York coffee houses for just 10 months when he got booked at the city’s most prestigious venue, even if it was in the smallest theater in the Carnegie Hall complex and only 53 people showed up. To a newbie the sheer amount of material can be overwhelming, but here’s a guide to the best of every era of Dylan’s career. His refusal to release a single show from the Never Ending Tour, the complete unedited Basement Tapes or countless other legendary bootlegs has led to a very active underground Dylan recording community. He’s since put out six more volumes (always with better sound quality than what’s previously circulated), but it’s done nothing to stop the flood of underground releases. In 1991 he decided to beat the bootleggers at their own game by releasing the three-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vols. In the four decades since, Dylan has been bootlegged more than any other artist. Great White Wonder flew off shelves, kicking off the age of the rock & roll bootleg. ![]() Nobody realized it at the time, but it was the first commercially available bootleg. One record consisted of the tracks from the long-rumored Basement Tapes, while the other one was largely folk covers taped live in 1961. The words “GF 001/2/3/4” were stamped on the cover, though later editions were called Great White Wonder. In the summer of 1969 a strange new Bob Dylan double LP hit record store shelves in a plain white sleeve. ![]()
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