Bob Dylan Compilations 1963-12-29
Early Recordings Vol. I, Various, Various
Set 1
Red Rosey Bush (Trad.)*
Johnny I Hardly Knew You (Trad.)*
Jesus Christ (W. Guthrie)*
Streets Of Glory (W. Guthrie)*
K. C. Moan (1927 Memphis Jug Band)*
Blues Yodel #8 (Muleskinner Blues)(Trad.)*
I'm A Gambler (Trad.)*
Talking Columbia (W. Guthrie)*
Talking Sailor (W. Guthrie)*
Talking Hugh Brown*
Talking Lobbyist (T. Glazer)*
Ramblin 'round (W. Gurthrie)@
Death Don't Have No Mercy (Rev. G. Davis)@
It's Hard To Be Blind@
This Train Is Bound For Glory (W. Guthrie)@
Harp Blues@
Talking Fish Blues (W. Guthrie)@
Pastures Of Plenty (W. Guthrie)@
Johnny I Hardly Knew You (Trad.)*
Jesus Christ (W. Guthrie)*
Streets Of Glory (W. Guthrie)*
K. C. Moan (1927 Memphis Jug Band)*
Blues Yodel #8 (Muleskinner Blues)(Trad.)*
I'm A Gambler (Trad.)*
Talking Columbia (W. Guthrie)*
Talking Sailor (W. Guthrie)*
Talking Hugh Brown*
Talking Lobbyist (T. Glazer)*
Ramblin 'round (W. Gurthrie)@
Death Don't Have No Mercy (Rev. G. Davis)@
It's Hard To Be Blind@
This Train Is Bound For Glory (W. Guthrie)@
Harp Blues@
Talking Fish Blues (W. Guthrie)@
Pastures Of Plenty (W. Guthrie)@
Set 2
Railroad Bill (Trad.)@
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (A. P. Carter)@
Man Of Constant Sorrow (Trad.)@
Pretty Polly (Trad.)@
Railroad Boy (Trad.)@
James Alley Blues (R. "Rabbit" Brown)@
Why'd You Cut My Hair? (Trad.)@
This Land Is Your Land (W. Guthrie)@
Two Trains Running (M. Morganfield)@
Wild Mountain Thyme (Trad.)@
How'd You Do? (W. Guthrie)@
Car Car (W. Guthrie)@
Don't You Push Me Down (W. Guthrie)@
Come See (W. Guthrie)@
I Want My Milk (W. Guthrie)@
San Francisco Bay Blues (J. Fuller)@
A Long Time A-Growin' (Trad.)@
Devilish Mary (Bless, Lomax & Hawes)@
I Might Go Home Again#
Bob Dylan's Blues (?)**
Ballad Of Hollis Brown**
Girl Of The North Country**
Boots Of Spanish Leather**
Eternal Circle**
Hero Blues**
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (A. P. Carter)@
Man Of Constant Sorrow (Trad.)@
Pretty Polly (Trad.)@
Railroad Boy (Trad.)@
James Alley Blues (R. "Rabbit" Brown)@
Why'd You Cut My Hair? (Trad.)@
This Land Is Your Land (W. Guthrie)@
Two Trains Running (M. Morganfield)@
Wild Mountain Thyme (Trad.)@
How'd You Do? (W. Guthrie)@
Car Car (W. Guthrie)@
Don't You Push Me Down (W. Guthrie)@
Come See (W. Guthrie)@
I Want My Milk (W. Guthrie)@
San Francisco Bay Blues (J. Fuller)@
A Long Time A-Growin' (Trad.)@
Devilish Mary (Bless, Lomax & Hawes)@
I Might Go Home Again#
Bob Dylan's Blues (?)**
Ballad Of Hollis Brown**
Girl Of The North Country**
Boots Of Spanish Leather**
Eternal Circle**
Hero Blues**
Set 3
Comment
A compilation by Bob T. Guevara, also called "I Always Liked Minnesota, I Was There For A Party Once."
* "The First Minnesota Party Tape", Sept. 1960, Minneapolis, MN, Bob Dylan's and Hugh Brown's apartment.
@ "The Minnesota Party Tape II", May 24 1961, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
# "The First Whitaker Tape", Aug. 11 1962, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
** "The Second Whitaker Tape", July 17 1963, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
Mr. Guevara wrote: "All tracks are remastered, though the First Party Tape and the Whitaker Tapes are in such poor quality, that there's not really much to remaster.
"The First Minnesota Party Tape": This is the third oldest Tape from Bob Dylan at all. Sadly it's also one of the very roughest at all. The vocals are pretty upfront though, but the guitare is often hardly until not at all to hear and there's still a lot of unremoveable tapehiss. The original tape used for the boot "I Was So Much Younger Then" runs way too fast, so I slowed it a bit down here, but because there's no other source for the official tape, I have no Idea about the real speed, I just made, what sounded best.
"The Minnesota Party Tape II": This tape is the best known of the ones here and it is overall pretty easy to listen. Vocals and guitare are well hearable, the harmonic might be sometimes a bit loud. The only real bad thing ist, that there are a couple of volume problems where the volume is for some miliseconds or even seconds as good as zero. I tried to fix that, but because of the extremely low volume, there was an extremely high tapehiss after I normalized the volumes on those parts what sounded even worse. But I made on the whole tape the sound clearer and removed most of the tapehiss. On some tracks there's still tapehiss, because it was there much higher and I couldn't remove it completely without getting away also a lot of the sound itself. Overall this is now very enjoyable.
"The Whitaker Tapes": This Tapes are only fragmentary copys of the original, sadly uncirculating, "Minnesota Home Tapes 1 & 2". They were made through a telephone and so the volume was sometimes too high and came now very scrachy. There's also after the remastering still some tapehiss left. But the recordings, especially the first tape, are very interesting: The song I called here "I Might Go Home Again" is in most scources misidentified as "Tomorrow Is A Long Time", but it is definitely another, nowhere else recorded one, sadly the tape is afther the first two verses cut (The complete tape would also contain the only known recording of "Talking Hypocrite"). The second tape contains only very short fragments of the songs and sadly not the more interesting ones of the original tape (for example it would most probably contain the only known recording by Dylan himself of "Liverpool Gal"). I don't know, whether track two of this tape is really "Bob Dylan's Blues", cause the tape is cut after the harminica intro and this blues-intro is on much blues-songs Bobby sung very similar and the cronologie's (which are anyway pretty different to each other for this tapes) doesn't contain any blues-song."
* "The First Minnesota Party Tape", Sept. 1960, Minneapolis, MN, Bob Dylan's and Hugh Brown's apartment.
@ "The Minnesota Party Tape II", May 24 1961, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
# "The First Whitaker Tape", Aug. 11 1962, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
** "The Second Whitaker Tape", July 17 1963, Minneapolis, MN, Bonnie Beecher's apartment.
Mr. Guevara wrote: "All tracks are remastered, though the First Party Tape and the Whitaker Tapes are in such poor quality, that there's not really much to remaster.
"The First Minnesota Party Tape": This is the third oldest Tape from Bob Dylan at all. Sadly it's also one of the very roughest at all. The vocals are pretty upfront though, but the guitare is often hardly until not at all to hear and there's still a lot of unremoveable tapehiss. The original tape used for the boot "I Was So Much Younger Then" runs way too fast, so I slowed it a bit down here, but because there's no other source for the official tape, I have no Idea about the real speed, I just made, what sounded best.
"The Minnesota Party Tape II": This tape is the best known of the ones here and it is overall pretty easy to listen. Vocals and guitare are well hearable, the harmonic might be sometimes a bit loud. The only real bad thing ist, that there are a couple of volume problems where the volume is for some miliseconds or even seconds as good as zero. I tried to fix that, but because of the extremely low volume, there was an extremely high tapehiss after I normalized the volumes on those parts what sounded even worse. But I made on the whole tape the sound clearer and removed most of the tapehiss. On some tracks there's still tapehiss, because it was there much higher and I couldn't remove it completely without getting away also a lot of the sound itself. Overall this is now very enjoyable.
"The Whitaker Tapes": This Tapes are only fragmentary copys of the original, sadly uncirculating, "Minnesota Home Tapes 1 & 2". They were made through a telephone and so the volume was sometimes too high and came now very scrachy. There's also after the remastering still some tapehiss left. But the recordings, especially the first tape, are very interesting: The song I called here "I Might Go Home Again" is in most scources misidentified as "Tomorrow Is A Long Time", but it is definitely another, nowhere else recorded one, sadly the tape is afther the first two verses cut (The complete tape would also contain the only known recording of "Talking Hypocrite"). The second tape contains only very short fragments of the songs and sadly not the more interesting ones of the original tape (for example it would most probably contain the only known recording by Dylan himself of "Liverpool Gal"). I don't know, whether track two of this tape is really "Bob Dylan's Blues", cause the tape is cut after the harminica intro and this blues-intro is on much blues-songs Bobby sung very similar and the cronologie's (which are anyway pretty different to each other for this tapes) doesn't contain any blues-song."
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