LISTEN TO ME, BABY - BOB DYLAN 2008
In an interview some years ago, Neil Young was
asked what to expect from Bob Dylan in the future, and he grinned and said “More
of the same, more of the same”. Well, 2008 was really a year of “more of the
same”: more shows with the same songs played with the same band and more Theme
Time Radio Hour shows. Highlight of the year was of course the release of the 8th
installment in the Bootleg Series: Tell-Tale
Signs. Rare and unreleased 1989-2006, a great collection of alternate takes, outtakes, non-album tracks and live recordings.
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2 January |
Show # 62, “Number One” in the Theme
Time Radio Hour series is broadcast. |
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8 February |
The exhibition Bob Dylan’s Americal Journey 1956-1966
re-opens at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. |
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21 February |
The first of three warm-up shows in Dallas, Texas kicks off this year’s touring. The band
and the set remain the same compared to the previous tour. |
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26 February |
The first of four shows in Mexico. |
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March |
Release of the 3-CD DVD set Bob Dylan Live Transmissions. For more
details please refer to chapter 4.3. |
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5 March |
The tour continues with eight shows in South
America, the two first in São Paulo, Brazil. |
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25 March |
The South Of The South Tour ends with a show
at the XXII
Festival Cultural Zacatecas in Zacatecas, Mexico. |
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2 April |
The second season of Theme Time Radio Hour
ends with the broadcast of the show #75, “Cold”. |
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7 April |
Bob Dylan is awarded a special Pulitzer Prize
for music. The citation notes his "profound impact on popular music and
American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic
power." |
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8 May |
An exhibition of Barry Feinstein’s Bob Dylan
photos opens at the Snap Galleries in Birmingham. |
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13 May |
Bob Dylan's former girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, publishes her
book, A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich
Village in the Sixties, through Broadway Books. |
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16 May |
A short 7-stop tour starts in Worcester,
Massachusetts. |
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22 May |
The exhibition Tangled Up In Ore – Bob Dylan
and the Iron Range opens at Ironworld in Chisholm,
Minnesota. The exhibition chronicles Robert Zimmerman’s early life and experieces in the Iron Range city of Hibbing as well as
his rise to fame in music as Bob Dylan. |
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24 May |
… and ends in St. John's,
Newfoundland, Canada before the Atlantic crossing. |
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26 May |
Just two days later a lengthy Europen tour starts in Reykjavik,
Iceland. |
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29 May |
Certificates were given to the Pulitzer Prize
winners at the Columbia University in New York City. Bob Dylan’s certificate
was in his absence collected by his son Jesse. |
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3 June |
First ever Bob Dylan concert in Russia in St. Petersburg. |
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4 June |
First ever Bob Dylan concert in Estonia in
Tallinn. The show
features the first live version of
If You See Her, Say Hello since Stockholm, Sweden
17 October 2005. |
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5 June |
First ever Bob Dylan concert in Lithuania in
Vilnius. |
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7 June |
The show in Warsaw, Poland features the first
live performances of Love Minus
Zero/No Limit since Dublin,
Ireland 27 November 2005 and of Make
You Feel My Love since Reading,
Pennsylvania 23 August 2006. |
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13 June |
First ever Bob Dylan concert in Croatia in Varazdin. |
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14 June |
The first-ever gallery exhibition of
paintings by Bob Dylan, titled The
Drawn Blank Series, opens at The Halcyon Gallery in London. |
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22 June |
First ever Bob Dylan concert in Andorra in Encamp.
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27 June |
Handy Dandy is played live for the first time during
the show in Vigo, Spain. |
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11 July |
The European tour ends with a concert during the Optimus Alive!08 festival in Oeiras, Portugal. |
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8 August |
The US Summer tour starts with a sow in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. |
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7 September |
… and ends in Santa Barbara,
California. |
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October |
Together
Through Life recording sessions in an Unidentified
Recording Studio somewhere in California. |
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7 October |
Tell
Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8, featuring unreleased
material, demos, and live tracks from 1989 through 2006 is released |
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8 October |
The third season of Theme Time Radio Hour
starts with the broadcast of theme “Money, part 1”. |
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23 October |
The final tour of the year starts with a
concert in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. |
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29 October |
Twenty-five limited edition boxed sets of seven
Bob Dylan Signature Hohner Marine Band Harmonicas
plus 100 single Dylan Signature Harmonicas goes up for sale on the Internet. |
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5 November |
The show in La Crosse,
Wisconsin features the first live rendition of The Wicked Messenger since Verona, New York 20 April 2005. |
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21 November |
The Fall tour ends in New York City,
New York with a show in The United Palace. The set list
includes the first live
performance of Gotta Serve Somebody since Jacksonville, Florida 5 February 2002, not counting sitting in with The Dead
in Tampa, Florida 30 July 2003 and of Tomorrow Is A Long Time since Boston; Massachusetts 15 April 2005. |
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25 November |
Drawn Blank, an exhibition of paintings by
Bob Dylan, executed between 1989 and 1992, opens at The Lightbox,
Woking, UK, where it runs into the New Year. |
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2 December |
Odetta Holmes dies at
the age of 77. |
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Storming Music Company, SMC
2520, released in
the UK 3 December 2007.
Contains enhanced CD and book set.
Storming Music Company, SMC
2642, released in
the UK 18 March 2008.
Contains enhanced CD and book set.
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3 DVD set,
released in the UK March 2008. Edgehill
Publications Ltd, Ragnarock Films Ltd, RMS 2661.
CD 1:
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1. |
Gotta Serve Somebody |
Saturday Night Live, New York
City, New York, 20 October 1979 |
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2. |
I
Believe In You |
Saturday Night Live, New York
City, New York, 20 October 1979 |
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3. |
When
You Gonna Wake Up |
Saturday Night Live, New York
City, New York, 20 October 1979 |
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4. |
Gotta Serve Somebody |
Grammy
Award Ceremony, New York City, New York, 20 February 1991 |
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5. |
Don't
Start Me To Talkin' (Sonny Boy
Williamson) |
Late Night
with David Letterman, New York City, New York, 22 March 1984 |
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6. |
License
To Kill |
Late Night
with David Letterman, New York City, New York, 22 March 1984 |
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7. |
I'll
Remember You |
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8. |
Trust
Yourself |
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9. |
Maggie's
Farm |
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10. |
I
Shall Be Released |
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11. |
Blowin' In The Wind |
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12. |
Rainy
Day Women # 12 & 35 |
CD 2:
Note. Listed on the DVD cover is Just
Like A Woman as track 12, Seeing The Real You At Last as track 13 and Highway 61 (sic) as track 14. But Just Like A Woman
is not included, so there are only 13 tracks.
CD 3:
Woodstock ’94, Saugerties,
New York, 14 August 1994:
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1. |
Jokerman |
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2. |
Just
Like A Woman |
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3. |
All
Along The Watchtower |
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4. |
It
Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry |
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5. |
Don’t
Think Twice, It’s All Right |
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6. |
Masters
Of War |
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7. |
It's
All Over Now, Baby Blue |
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8. |
God
Knows |
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9. |
I
Shall Be Released |
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10. |
Highway
61 Revisited |
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11. |
Rainy
Day Women #12 & 35 |
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12. |
It
Ain't Me, Babe |
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The full title of this record or box is TELL TALE SIGNS: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 8 RARE AND UNRELEASED
1989-2006, Columbia CKA 735797, released 6 October 2008.
This instalment in the Bootleg Series came in
no less than six formats:
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1.
"teaser" |
CD 1 with a 16-page booklet |
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2. "standard" |
CD 1+2 witha 60-page booklet |
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3. "vinyl |
4-LP
containing CD 1 & 2 with a 64-page
booklet |
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4. "De Luxe" |
CD
1+2+3 with a 48-page hardback & a 150-page hardback with single record
covers |
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5. "De Luxe +" |
As
”De Luxe” plus a 7" vinyl singel
with Dreamin' Of You/Ring Them Bells |
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6. "Internet" |
CD
1+2 + iTune download access to Love Sick from Tramps, New York City, New York, 26 July 1999. |
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Number of songs |
40 |
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Number of different songs |
29 |
73% |
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Number of Dylan songs |
32 |
80% |
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Number of released
songs |
4 |
10% |
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Number of out-takes |
13 |
32% |
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Number of alternate versions |
14 |
35% |
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Number of live versions |
8 |
20% |
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Number of recordings new to collectors |
27 |
68% |
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studio |
live |
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Oh
Mercy |
10 |
1 |
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Under
the Red Sky |
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Good As I Been To You |
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World Gone Wrong |
2 |
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Time Out Of Mind |
11 |
3 |
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“Love & Theft” |
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1 |
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Modern Times |
2 |
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Soundtrack |
4 |
1 |
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Covers |
3 |
2 |
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TOTAL |
32 |
8 |
CD 1:
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1. |
Mississippi |
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2. |
Most Of
The Time |
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3. |
Dignity |
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4. |
Someday Baby |
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5. |
Red River Shore |
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6. |
Tell Ol'
Bill |
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7. |
Born In Time |
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8. |
Can't Wait |
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9. |
Everrything Is Broken |
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10. |
Dreamin' Of You |
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11. |
Huck's Tune |
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12. |
Marchin' To The City |
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13. |
High
Water (for Charley Patton) |
Notes
All tracks except 6
and 11 are previously unreleased.
All tracks except 6, 11
and 13 are new to collectors.
1, 5, 10, 12 are outtakes.
2-4, 7-9 are
alternate takes.
1, 5, 8, 10, 12 are
from the Time Out Of Mind sessions
2, 3, 7, 9 are from
the Oh Mercy sessions
4 is from the Modern
Times sessions
6 is from the
recording session in Studio 4, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 17 June 2005
11 is from the
recording sessions in Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, Florida, 12-13 May 2006
13 is live from Oakes
Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 23 August 2003
CD 2:
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1. |
Mississippi |
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2. |
32:20 Blues (Robert Johnson) |
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3. |
Series of
Dreams |
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4. |
God Knows |
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5. |
Can't Escape From You |
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6. |
Dignity |
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7. |
Ring Them
Bells |
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8. |
Cocaine Blues (trad.) |
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9. |
Ain't Talkin' |
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10. |
Girl
Of The Greenbriar Shore (trad.) |
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11. |
Lonesome Day Blues |
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12. |
Miss the Mississippi |
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13. |
The Lonesome
River |
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14. |
Cross the Green Mountain |
Notes
All tracks except 13 and 14 are previously
unreleased.
Tracks 1-6 and 10 are new to collectors.
1, 2, 5, 12 are outtakes.
3, 4, 6, 9 are alternate takes.
1 is from the Time Out Of Mind sessions
2 is from the World Gone Wrong
sessions
3, 4, 6 are from the Oh Mercy sessions
5 is from the recording sessions in Westland Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 28-29 November 2005
7 is live from the late show at The Supper Club, New York
City, New York, 17 November 1993
8 is live from Filene
Center, Wolf Trap Farm Park For The
Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia, 24 August 1997
9 is from the Modern Times sessions
10 is live from Kursaal, Cote d'Opale, Dunkerque, France, 30
June 1992
11 is live from National Car Rental Center,
Sunrise, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1 February 2002
12 is from the David Bromber recording sessions in Acme
Recording, Chicago, Illinois, 3-5 June 1992
13 is from the Clinch Mountain Country recording session in Masterlink Studios, Nashville,
Tennessee, 30 November 1997
14 is from the recording
sessions in Scream
Studios, Studio City, California, 23 July 2002
CD 3:
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1. |
Duncan And Brady (trad.) |
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2. |
Cold Irons Bound |
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3. |
Mississippi |
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4. |
Most Of
The Time |
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5. |
Ring Them
Bells |
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6. |
Things Have Changed |
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7. |
Red River Shore |
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8. |
Born In Time |
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9. |
Tryin' To Get To Heaven |
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10. |
Marchin' To The City |
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11. |
Can't Wait |
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12. |
Mary
And The Soldier (traditional, arranged by
Bob Dylan) |
Notes
All tracks are previously unreleased.
Tracks 2, 6 and 9 are new to collectors.
1, 3, 7,
10, 12 are outtakes.
4, 5, 8, 11 are alternate takes.
1 is from the David Bromber recording sessions in Acme
Recording, Chicago, Illinois, 3-5 June 1992
2 is live from the Bonnaroo
Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, 11 June 2004
3, 7, 9, 10, 11 are
from the Time Out Of Mind
sessions
4, 5, 8 are from the Oh Mercy sessions
6 is live from Roseland Theater
in Portland, Oregon, 15 June 2000
12 is
from the World Gone Wrong
sessions.
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The
complete concert started to circulate. For a full listing please refer to the
corresponding session page.
The
complete concert started to circulate. For a full listing please refer to the
corresponding session page.
A partial
PA-tape from this concert has now surfaced. It contains the following songs:
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3. |
Like A Rolling
Stone |
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4. |
I Want You |
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10. |
Heart Of Mine |
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18. |
Shot Of Love |
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19. |
Masters Of War |
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20. |
Just Like A
Woman |
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21. |
Solid Rock |
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23. |
It's All In The
Game
(cut) |
More info
can be found in the session page.
Two new
songs from the sessions with Allen Ginssberg are now circulating:
Put My Money Down (Gimme
My Money Back) from
9 november 1971 and
(Oh Babe) For You from 17 November.
A track
from the Planet Waves sessions, Going, Going, Gone, with Dylan doing a vocal overdub to a backing track has emerged.
New
alternate takes from the second Under The Red Sky sessions in March are:
2 x 2, Born In Time, Wiggle Wiggle,
T.V. Talkin' Song, Unbelievable, Under The Red Sky.
This song
from the sessions in Rundown Studios in Santa Monica,
California, October 1980 is now circulating.
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