Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Dylan. Show all posts

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (The New York Sessions)


It's a Dylan two-fer. Probably my other favorite Bob Dylan album. The story on this is that Bob Dylan recorded the whole album in New York but scrapped most of the songs, then went back to Minneapolis and re-recorded them with his brother. This here be the original sessions.

More info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_on_the_Tracks
and here http://www.bobsboots.com/Cds/cd-b28.html

MP3 @ 192
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Again (Outtakes)


Here we have some excellent outtakes from one of my favorite Dylan albums. This is good stuff here folks. The accompanying info says this was dubbed off studio acetates. I promised this a while back so just thought I would (finally) deliver.

All you ever wanted to know about Highway 61 Revisited

MP3 @ 192
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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue - New Orleans 5-3-76


Here is a fantastic little bootleg. A Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue show from 1976 in it's entirety. The mid 70's has always been my favorite Dylan era, so this is a special treat for me as well. Plus look at all those guests.....Bob Neuwirth (who assembled the Revue), Roger McGuinn, Kinky Friedman, T-Bone Burnett, Joan Baez, and Dennis Hopper....bet that was a hell of a party.
For some reason I made the covers blue but they came out tan when I posted them....oh well, I think I like the tan better anyway. Don't like what it did to Bob's picture on the back cover, but hell I don't feel like redoing it. Enjoy this guys, cause I know I am.

MP3 @ 192
(I guess now would be a good time to say I plan on making all the shows I post on here @ 192 while if it's a mix it will still get the 128 treatment.....call it a new years resolution)

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Earl Scruggs - His Family and Friends (ft. Byrds, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Doc Watson)

Another criminally underrated out of print album from Earl Scruggs. This is the one people.....this album is fantastic. Recorded in 1969 for a television documentary, not released on vinyl till 1971. This album is where that Byrds clip a few posts back came from. At the time Earl's son Randy was still in high school, of which there are some humerous soundbites about during his performance of Black Mountain Rag. Features such heavyweights as Doc Watson, The Byrds, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan (though he doesn't sing). If you are a fan of the Dirt Band's "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" album.....this is right up your alley. And besides, where else are you gonna hear 1. foggy mt. breakdown played on a synthesizer, and 2. Earl Scruggs speak out against the Vietnam war?

There is a DVD available of this (Get the DVD here) that I will surely be getting. You can watch the trailer here (sorry, embedding was disallowed)

  1. Nine Pound Hammer
  2. Lonesome Ruben
  3. My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountain (with Joan Baez)
  4. Love is Just a Four Letter Word (with Joan Baez)
  5. The Last Thing On My Mind (with Doc Watson)
  6. Streamlined Cannonball (with Doc Watson)
  7. Nashville Skyline Rag (with Bob Dylan)
  8. Foggy Mountain Breakdown (with Gil Tryhall)
  9. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (with The Byrds)
  10. Nothin' To It (with The Byrds)
  11. Salty Dog Blues (with The Morris Brothers)
  12. On Top Of Old Smokey (with The Morris Brothers)
  13. Black Mountain Rag (Randy Scruggs)
  14. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
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Earl Scruggs - His Family and Friends

Sunday, September 16, 2007

This is what it's all about folks...



The Byrds & The Earl Scruggs Revue playing Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere". If this clip doesn't define country-rock, then I don't know what does. I mean the mighty Clarence White on B-Bender plus the immortal Earl Scruggs on 5-string.....!!!!! Amazing!!!!.
If you've never heard of The Earl Scruggs Revue, it was Scruggs' band with his sons in the early 70's. They were (gasp..) a "bunch of longhairs". They made a few great albums back then, most notably Anniversary Vol.1 & Vol. 2 which featured a plethora of guests similar to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's masterpiece of an album (that may be an understatement) "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". Only here's the twist, instead of a bunch of hippies enlisting bluegrass legends, they were bluegrass legends enlisting hippies. People like McGuin, Loudon Wainwright III, Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash, Buffy Saint-Marie, & legendary producer Bob Johnston. A highly reccomended album if you enjoy this clip.

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