I’M NOT THERE - BOB DYLAN 2007

                           

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1             INTRODUCTION

The flood of releases continued this year. DVDs from the Newport Folk Festival 1963-65 and a deluxe box with Dont Look Back including a DVD with extra material,  soundtrack to the movie I’m Not There and also a 3-CD deluxe box with 25 years of recordings and a deluxe presentation of The Traveling Wilburys catalogue. The Awards kept coming, two more Grammys and the prestigious Spanish Prince of Asturias award in the Arts category. This year also saw the first exhibition entirely devoted to the painting art of Bob Dylan as the Drawn Blank Series opened in Chemnitz, Geermany. And of course The Never Ending Tour did not end this year, the 2000th show was played during the Fall Tour in Dayton, Ohio.

 

2             2007 AT A GLANCE

 

 

3             THE 2007 CALENDAR

3 January

Show # 35, “Women’s Names” in the Theme Time Radio Hour series is broadcast.

8 January

Bob Dylan's 32nd studio album, Modern Times, earns a Platinum Disc award from the R.I.A.A for sales of one million units in the USA.

11 February

At the 49th annual Grammy Awards Bob Dylan is awarded two Grammys, one for Someday Baby in the category Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and for Modern Times in the category Best Contemporary Folk/American Album. This brings his total of Grammy Award wins to ten. Dylan did not turn up to receive his awards. He wasn’t there.

27 March

The annual tour of Europe starts again in Stockholm, Sweden, this time with a warm-up show at the small club Debaser Medis, with a capacity of 850 persons. The band and the set-list remain the same as when the previouis tour ended. This show features the first performance of Country Pie since Richmond, Virginia 15 August 2004.

12 April

First live performance of House Of The Risin' Sun since George, Washington 17 June 2000 at the show in Metro Radio Arena Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England..

18 April

The last programme of the first Theme Time Radio Hour season, show # 50, “Spring Cleaning” is broadcast.

24 April

The soundtrack to Lucky You, containg the Dylan song Huck’s Tune recorded in Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, 12-13 May 2006, is released.

5 May

After 28 shows in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Italy the tour ends with a show in Herninghallen, Herning, Denmark, a venue as small as the one the tour started in.

7 May

The 2 disc DVD Dont Look Back 65 Tour Deluxe Edition is released. This set also includes a reprint of Pennebaker’s book Dont Look Back, originally published 1968,  För more detail please refer to chapter 4.34.2. It also contains a flipbook showing the Subterranean Homesick Blues video.

24 May

To celebrate his 66th birthday, a 1.8 mile path called Bob Dylan Way is opened in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, marked by signs showing Bob Dylan with a guitar and microphone stand.

21 June

Bob Dylan and his band spend the last of four days rehearsing for their upcoming US tour at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Poughkeepsie, New York State.

22 June

The Never-Ending Tour rolls on with another US Summer tour starting with a show in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Same band, same set-list structure.

19 July

The show in Morrison, Colorado sports the first performance of Friend Of The Devil since Eugene, Oregon 5 October 2002.

28 July

The summer tour ends in Kelseyville, California.

8 August

A short 12-stop tour of Australia and New Zealand starts in Christchurch, New Zealand.

21 August

The show in Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia sees the live debut of Beyond The Horizon.

27 August

The tour Down Under ends with a show in Auckland, New Zealand.

31 August

The film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, USA. In the film, which claims to be 'Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan', six different actors depict separate facets of Dylan's life and public persona. Dylan himself does not appear.

19 September

The second season of Theme Time Radion Hour starts with a broadcast of the theme “Hello”.

19 September

Jack White plays electric guitar and sings with Dylan on Meet Me In The Morning at the first show in Nashville, Tennessee. This is strangely enough the first live Dylan performance of this song.

20 September

Jack White returns the next night and joins Dylan on Outlaw Blues, another first live version, and One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) which hasn’t been in the set since the early show at the Supper Club in New York City, New York, 17 November 1993.

21 September

Bob Dylan is named among the 50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years by men's magazine GQ, along with David Bowie and Elvis Presley.

22 September

Dylan joins the Atlanta-based Chabad-Lubavitch for Yom Kippur services.

24 September

Mark Ronson’s “re-version” of Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) is released,

1 October

DYLAN 3 CD Deluxe Edition, containing original remastered recordings from Bob Dylan 1962 to last year’s Modern Times is released.

16 October

Concert # 2000 of The Never-Ending Tour is played in Dayton, Ohio.

22 October

Elvis Costello joins Dylan for a duet on Tears Of Rage during the show in St. Louis, Missouri.

26 October

Bob Dylan is given the Spanish Prince of Asturias award in the Arts category. The award constss of €50,000 and a sculpture of Joan Miró as well as a diplom  and an insignia. Dylan did not attend the prize ceremony. He wasn’t there.

28 October

The Bob Dylan art exhibition The Drawn Blank Series opens in Chemnitz, Germany. The exhibition shows 200 paintings based on drawings and sketches published in the Drawn Blank book. The paintings are in watercolour and gouache. Dylan did not attend the opening. He wasn’t there.

29 October

Bob Dylan - The Other Side Of The Mirror - Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD is released. For more details see chapter 4.5.

29 October

Elvis Costello and Amos Lee joins Dylan for a duet on I Shall Be Released at the last show of the Fall tour in Chicago, Illinois, 29 October.

30 October

The soundtrack to I’m Not There is released. It contains the song I’m Not There (1956) from The Basement Tapes. For more details see chapter 4.6.

10 November

Jeffrey Owen Jones, the Rochester Institute of Technology film professor reputed to be the "Mr. Jones" in Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man, dies of lung cancer.

3 December

The Traveling Wilburys Collection (CD + DVD) is released. For more details see chapter 4.7.

 

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4             NEW RELEASES AND RECORDINGS

4.1       Lucky You

Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 8276 89625 2, released 24 April 2007.

The album contains the following tracks:

 

Song

Artist

1.

Lucky Town

Bruce Springsteen

2.

Dance Me To The End Of Love

Madeleine Peyroux

3.

Choices

George Jones

4.

Maybe This Time

Liza Minelli

5.

The Fever

Bruce Springsteen

6.

Bartender's Blues

Bonnie Raitt

7.

They Ain't Got 'Em All

Kris Kristofferson

8.

The Cold Hard Truth

Drew Barrymore

9.

Like A Rolling Stone

Bob Dylan (album version)

10.

Let It Ride

Ryan Adams

11.

I Always Get Lucky With You (Single Version)

George Jones

12.

Huck's Tune

Bob Dylan

 

Please refer to the recording session page for more detailed information.

 

4.2       Dont Look Back - 65 Tour Exclusive Edition

Sony BMG Musical Entertainment 82876832139, released 7 May 2007.
This product contains

·        DVD 1: Dont Look Back, as previously released on VHS and DVD.

·        DVD 2: Bob Dylan 65 Revisited – outtakes and extra material as described below, 66 minutes.

·        A flipbook called Bob Dylan Dont Look Back Subterranean Homesick Blues showing the video from the film

·        A reprint of D.A. Pennebaker: Dont Look Back, originally published by Ballantine Books in 1968.

Here’s a rundown of what’s on the second DVD:

·        working at piano on what later turns into It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry and going aboard a plane in New York City.

·        BBC “Teen Scene” interview at London Airport

·        fans

·        Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right from unidentified concert over credits

·        interview

·        leaving for photoshop

·        Wild Mountain Thyme with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in hotel

·        Albert Grossman is briefly interviewed

·        backstage at City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

·        Love Minus Zero/No Limit - soundcheck from City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

·        To Ramona from the concert in City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

·        meeting fans in Sheffield and Liverpool the next day

·        It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue from the concert at Odeon in Liverpool 1 May

·        working at piano on It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry probably in Leicester 2 May

·        with a group in Leicester 2 May

·        the end of The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll from De Montford Hall, Leicester 2 May

·        interview

·        typing away in hotel room

·        Sweetheart Remember Me performed in hotel in London

·        It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) from the concert in Town Hall, Birmingham 5 May

·        shopping for clothes in Newcastle

·        It Ain’t Me, Babe from the concert in City Hall, Newcastle 6 May

·        shots from Newcastle railway station

·        arriving in Manchester

·        talking backstage at Free Trade Hall, Manchester 7 May

·        If You Gotta Go, Go Now from the concert in Free Trade Hall, Manchester 7 May

·        Nico ad Albert Grossman talking

·        Let Me Die In My Footsteps – hotel performance, with song without words

·        discussing how to exit safely after show

·        going to Royal Albert Hall in London

·        Dylan playng piano backstage

·        She Belongs To Me from the first London show in Royal Albert Hall 9 May

·        piano backstage 10 May

·        I’ll Keep It With Mine on piano and harmonica over end credits

·        Subterranean Homesick Blues – windy rooftop version

Reference. Ian Woodward: The Wicked Messenger, item 6191, Isis # 131, page 14.

 

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4.3       Mark Ronson’s Most Likely Re-version

CD-single 1:

Sony BMG 88697163242, released 24 September:

1.      Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – Mark Ronson overdub version

2.      Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) –  original Blonde On Blonde version

CD-single 2:

Sony BMG 88697163192, released 24 September:

1.      Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – Mark Ronson overdub version

2.      Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – original Blonde On Blonde version

3.      Down Along The Cove – from Bonnaroo Music Festival 11 June 2004.

 

 

4.4       DYLAN

3 CD Deluxe Edition, Columbia 88697114202, released 1 October 2007. Original recordings remastered,

 

CD 1:

 

Song

Originally released on

1

Song To Woody

Bob Dylan

2

Blowin' In The Wind

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

3

Masters Of War

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

4

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

5

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

6

The Times They Are A-Changin'

The Times They Are A-Changin'

7

All I Really Want To Do

Another Side of Bob Dylan

8

My Back Pages

Another Side of Bob Dylan

9

It Ain't Me Babe

Another Side of Bob Dylan

10

Subterranean Homesick Blues

Bringing It All Back Home

11

Mr. Tambourine Man

Bringing It All Back Home

12

Maggie's Farm

Bringing It All Back Home

13

Like A Rolling Stone

Highway 61 Revisited

14

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Bringing It All Back Home

15

Positively 4th Street

Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits

16

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Blonde On Blonde

17

Just Like A Woman

Blonde On Blonde

18

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

Blonde On Blonde

19

All Along The Watchtower

John Wesley Harding

 

CD 2:

 

 

Song

Originally released on

1

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

The Basement Tapes

2

Lay, Lady, Lay

Nashville Skyline

3

If Not For You

New Morning

4

I Shall Be Released

Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II

5

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid

6

On A Night Like This

Planet Waves

7

Forever Young

Planet Waves

8

Tangled Up In Blue

Blood On The Tracks

9

Simple Twist Of Fate

Blood On The Tracks

10

Hurricane

Desire

11

Changing Of The Guards

Street Legal

12

Gotta Serve Somebody

Slow Train Coming

13

Precious Angel

Slow Train Coming

14

The Groom's Still Waiting At The

Shot Of Love

15

Jokerman

Infidels

16

Dark Eyes

Empire Burlesque

 

CD 3:

 

 

Song

Originally released on

1

Blind Willie McTell

The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3

2

Brownsville Girl

Knocked Out Loaded

3

Silvio Bob Dylan

Down In The Groove

4

Ring Them Bells

Oh Mercy

5

Dignity (Alternate Version)

Oh Mercy outtake

6

Everything Is Broken

Oh Mercy

7

Under The Red Sky

Under The Red Sky

8

You're Gonna Quit Me

Good As I Been To You

9

Blood In My Eyes

World Gone Wrong

10

Not Dark Yet

Time Out Of Mind

11

Things Have Changed

Wonder Boys soundtrack

12

Make You Feel My Love

Time Out Of Mind

13

High Water (For Charley Patton)

“Love And Theft”

14

Po' Boy

“Love And Theft”

15

Someday Baby

Modern Times

16

When The Deal Goes Down

Modern Times

 

 

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4.5       The Other Side Of The Mirror

The full title is The Other Side Of The Mirror. Bob Dylan Live at The Newport Folk Festical 1063-1965. Columbia 88697144669, released 29 October 2007. The DVD running time is 83 minutes and contains the following performances:

 

Year

Song

Occasion

Date

Note

1963

North Country Blues

Afternoon workshop

26 July

 

 

With God On Our Side

Afternoon workshop four first verses,

last three verses from Joan Baez set

26 July

27 July

 

 

Talkin’ World War III Blues

Evening concert

26 July

 

 

Who Killed Davey Moore?

Topical song workshop

27 July

 

 

Only A Pawn In Their Game

Evening concert

26 July

 

 

Blowin’ In The Wind

Evening finale

26 July

 

1964

Mr. Tambourine Man

Afternoon workshop

24 July

 

 

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Night peformance

24 July

Johnny Cash

 

Mary Hamilton

Night peformance

24 July

Joan Baez

 

It Ain’t Me, Babe

Evening concert

24 July

 

 

Interview

 

 

Joan Baez

 

With God On Our Side

Concert

26 July

 

 

Chimes Of Freedom

Concert

26 July

 

1965

All I Really Want To Do

Workshop

24 July

 

 

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

Workshop

24 July

 

 

Maggie's Farm/ Like A Rolling Stone

Rehearsal/Soundcheck

26 July

 

 

Maggie's Farm

Concert

26 July

 

 

Like A Rolling Stone

Concert

26 July

 

 

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Concert

26 July

 

 

Mr. Tambourine Man

Concert

26 July

 

 

For a detailed analysis of the Newport Folk Festival performances by Bob Dylan, please refer to”Re-tracking Dylan 1 (Dylan At Newport)” by Ian Woodward, ISIS Issue 135, November-December 2007, pp 46-51.

 

 

4.6       Music From The Motion Picture I’m Not There

Sony Music Soundtrax 88697 12038-2, released 30 October 2007.

This is a double CD with the following songs:

 

Disc 1:

 

   1

Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers

All Along The Watchtower

   2

Sonic Youth

I'm Not There

   3

Jim James & Calexico

Goin' To Acapulco

   4

Richie Havens

Tombstone Blues

   5

Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers

Ballad Of A Thin Man

   6

Cat Power

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

   7

John Doe

Pressing On

   8

Yo La Tengo

Fourth Time Around

   9

Iron And Wine & Calexico

Dark Eyes

 10

Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers

Highway 61 Revisited

 11

Roger McGuinn & Calexico

One More Cup Of Coffee

 12

Mason Jennings

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

 13

Los Lobos 4

Billy 1

 14

Jeff Tweedy

Simple Twist Of Fate

 15

Mark Lanegan

Man In The Long Black Coat

 16

Willie Nelson & Calexico

Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

 

 

 

 

Disc 2:

 

   1

Mira Billotte

As I Went Out One Morning

   2

Stephen Malkmus and Lee Ranaldo

Can't Leave Her Behind

   3

Sufjan Stevens

Ring Them Bells

   4

Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico

Just Like A Woman

   5

Jack Johnson

Mama You've Been On My Mind / A Fraction of

Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

   6

Yo La Tengo

I Wanna Be Your Lover

   7

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

   8

The Hold Steady

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?

   9

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

 10

The Black Keys

The Wicked Messenger

 11

Tom Verlaine & The Million Dollar Bashers

Cold Irons Bound

 12

Mason Jennings

The Times They Are A Changin'

 13

Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers

Maggie's Farm

 14

Marcus Carl Franklin

When The Ship Comes In

 15

Bob Forrest

Moonshiner

 16

John Doe

I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine

 17

Antony And The Johnsons

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

 18

Bob Dylan with The Band

I'm Not There

 

4.7       The Traveling Wilburys Collection

Rhino R2 167868, released 3 December 2007. A double CD + DVD product:

 

Volume 1 contains the album Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 + bonus tracks Like A Ship and Maxine, previously unreleased. For more details please refer to the session page for 7-17 May 1988.

 

Volume 2 is a DVD containing a film entitled The True History of The Traveling Wilburys anf the following promo videos: Handle With Care, End Of The Line, Inside Out, She’s My Baby and Wilbury Twist.

 

Volume 3 contains the album Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 + bonus tracks, the singles Runaway and Nobody’s Child. For more details please refer to the session page for April 1990.

 

 

 

 

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