MY BELL STILL RINGS - BOB DYLAN 2012

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2 2012 AT A GLANCE. 2

3 THE 2012 CALENDAR.. 3

4 NEW RELEASES AND RECORDINGS. 5

4.1 The Minneapolis Party Tape. 5

4.2 Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961. 5

4.3 The Minneapolis Hotel Tape & The Gaslight Café. 5

4.4 Tempest 6

4.5 Vinyl single Duquesne Whistle. 6

4.6 Bob Dylan - The 50th Anniversary Collection. 7

4.6.1 Background. 7

4.6.2 Presentation. 7

4.6.3 Contents. 8

4.6.4 Detailed track listing. 8

1 INTRODUCTION

Another busy year for Bob Dylan. Recording sessions during January, February and March yielded a new album with ten new songs, several in the murder ballad genre. Touring the globe resulted in visits to South and Central America as well as the perennial tour of Europe. During the last days of the year Sony Music rushed out an extremely limited release in Europe of outtakes from 1962 to extend their copyright ownership.

2 2012 AT A GLANCE

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3 THE 2012 CALENDAR

12 January	Bob Dylan performs Blind Willie McTell as a tribute to Martin Scorsese during the Critics' Choice Movie Awards at Hollywood Palladium Theater in Los Angeles, California
January – March	Bob Dylan’s 35^th studio album,Tempest, is recorded in Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica, California.
15 April	This year’s touring starts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The band remains the same as well as the show structure, song selection and arrangements.
19 April	Levom Helm dies of cancer. Bob Dylan publishes the following response on bobdylan.com: “He was my bosom buddy friend to the end, one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation. This is just so sad to talk about. I still can remember the first day I met him and the last day I saw him. We go back pretty far and had been through some trials together. I'm going to miss him, as I'm sure a whole lot of others will too.“
26 April	President Obama names Bob Dylan as one of the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
12 May	The Spring tour ends with two shows in Mexico City, Mexico.
29 May	In a ceremony in the East Room in the White House, Bob Dylan receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama together with twlve other recipients, amomng them Madeleine Albright, John Glenn and Toni Morrison. The award statement: “A modern day troubadour, Bob Dylan established himself as one of the most influential musicians of the 20^th century. The rich poetry of his lyrics opened up new possibilities for popular song and inspired generations. His melodies have brought ancient tradition into the modern age. Within 50 years after his career began Bob Dylan remains an eminent voice in our national conversation and around the world.” Barack Obamas introduction: “Bob Dylan started out singing other people’s songs, by that he says there came a point where I’d write what I wanted to say because what I wanted to say nobody else was writing. Born in Hibbing, Minnesota, a town, he says, where you couldn’t be a rebel, it was too cold. Bob moved to New York at age 19, by the time he was 23, Bob’s voice with its weight, its unique gravelly power was redefining not just what music sounded like, but the message it carried and how it make people feel. Today everybody from Bruce Springstrten to U2 owes Bob a debt of gratitude. There’s not a bigger giant in the history of American music. All these years later he’s still chasing that sound, he’s still searching for a little bit of truth and I have to say that I’m a really big fan!”
25-27 June	Three days of private rehearsals at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York.
30 June	Bob Dylan returns to Hop Farm in England to kick off the perennial European tour. Dylan now starts playing a grand piano instead of the KORG keyboard. This is used in the first song only.
22 July	The summer tour in Europe ends with a show at the Festival Vieilles Charrues in Carhaix-Plouguer, France.
10 August	The US summer tour starts in Canada with a show in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan.
18 August	This Dream Of You returns to the set at the show in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was last played in Bloomington, Indiana, 2 November 2009.
26 August	The McCrary Sisters join Dylan during the encore Blowin’ At The Wind at the show in Cincinnati, Ohio. The McCrary Sisters consist of Regina, Ann, Deborah and Alfreda. Regina was one of Bob Dylan's backup singers on the 1979-1981 tours. Regina also appeared on the Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot Of Love albums.
10 September	Release of Tempest. Please refer to section 4.4.
5 October	The year’s final tour criss-crosses Canada and US hitting 31 cities in 22 states with 33 shows. Mark Knopfler and his band is the support act. The first show features the first live version of a song from Tempest, Scarlet Town, which sadly is not repeated during this tour.
8 October	There are no songs from Tempest in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada but the first performance of Ain’t Talkin’ since New York City, New York 22 November 2010.
9 October	At the show in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada the song Shadows by Gordon Lightfoot is played as a request.
10 October	Joey returns to the setlist after almost six years. Last time was in Chicago, Illinois 28 October 2006.
24 October	At the show in San Diego, California, Mark Knopfler starts guesting Dylan. In total Knopfler played 53 times on 13 different songs. A detailed account be found in section 5.7.4.
27 October	First performance of Delia since Newcastle, England 19 September 2000.
7 November	After 21 shows without any of the new songs from Tempest being played the second performance Early Roman Kings came at the show in St. Paul, Minnesota.
8 November	The setlist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin had no songs from Tempest but a rare outing of Million Miles, first time since Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 7 November 2009.
12 November	Columbia Records releases the vinyl single Duquesne Whistle with a previously unreleased alternate take of Meet Me In The Morning.
13 November	The third song from Tempest, Pay In Blood, is played in Detroit, Michigan.
20 November	The fourth and last new song from Tempest, Soon After Midnight is played in Washington, DC. Early Roman Kings is also played, making this the only show during the Fall tour with two Tempest songs.
21 November	The Fall tour ends with a snow in Brooklyn, New York. During the 33 shows only four different songs from Tempest were played at 8 shows.
28 November	The exhibition Revisionist Art: Thirty Works by Bob Dylan, featuring magazine covers re-imagined by Bob Dylan, opens at The Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue, New York City, New York.
28 December	Sony Music releases an extremely limited European only 4cd set of outtakes from 1962 & 1963. The album is sold only through selected stores in England, Germany, France & Sweden. The set is limited to probably no more than a hundred copies. The release is triggered by European copyright laws which would pass these recordings onto public domain unless Sony claims ownership by releasing them one way or another. Please refer to section 4.2 below.

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4 NEW RELEASES AND RECORDINGS

4.1 The Minneapolis Party Tape

The coffee house performance from May 1961

released in the UK, 30 April 2012 on Bob Dylan Archive BDACD101. For details please refer to the corresponding session page. Note that the venue is incorrectly given as Bonnie Beecher’s apartment in Minneapolis in the CD booklet.

4.2 Carnegie Chapter Hall 1961

This record, released in the UK 20 February 2012 on Bob Dylan Archive BDACD102, contains the circulating songs from Dylan’s first concert in New York City, 4 November 1961 in Carnegie Chapter Hall. The track released on Bootleg Series Vol. 7, This Land Is Your Land is omitted. For further details please refer to the session page.

4.3 The Minneapolis Hotel Tape & The Gaslight Café

This record, released in the UK 7 May 2012 on Bob Dylan Archive BDACD10s, contains the complete “First Gaslight Tape”, recorded 6 September 1961 at The Gasliht Café in New Yorl City and the previously unreleased songs from the so called “Minnesota Hotel Tape”, in fact recorded at the home of Bonnie Beecher in Minneapolis 22 December 1961.

For further details please refer to the session pages.

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4.4 Tempest

Released by Columbia/Sony Music, 10 September 2012. Recorded at the Groove Masters Studio in Santa Monica, California January – March.

For further details please refer to the session page.

4.5 Vinyl single Duquesne Whistle

Released by Columbia Records 12 November 2012 and in the US 23 November to cebrate “Black Friday”. This release was limited to 5000 copies.

Side A:	Duquesne Whistle – album version
Side B:	Meet Me In The Morning – alternate previously unreleased version from the Blood On The Tracks recording sessions 19 September 1974.

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4.6 Bob Dylan - The 50th Anniversary Collection

4.6.1 Background

Sony Music released an extremely limited European only 4cd set of outtakes from 1962 & 1963. The album was sold only through selected stores in England, Germany, France and Sweden. The set was limited to probably no more than a hundred copies. The release was triggered by European copyright laws which would pass these recordings onto public domain unless Sony claims ownership by releasing them one way or another. In Germany the set was titled The Copyright Extension Collection Vol. I. This set was also available digitally but only via BobDylan.com in France and Germany.

4.6.2 Presentation

The set came in a simple plastic container and consisted of four discs each stored in a standard plastic bag with no text whatsoever. There was a handwritten cover shown below with the first disc. The discs had no Sony Music or Columbia logo or record number just the text as shown below. A separate 5-page A4 document with details on each track was included. This document will here be called “liner notes”. There was also a short listing of the total content.

4.6.3 Contents

The set contains two discs with studio outtakes and two discs with live performances as follows:

Date	Location	# of tracks	Note
29 January 1962	Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie, New York City, NY	2		disc 3: 1, 2
16 April 1962	Gerde's Folk City, New York City, New York	5		disc 3: 7-11
24 April 1962	The 1^st Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	10		disc 1: 1-10
25 April 1962	The 2^nd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	11	1	disc 1: 11-21
2 July 1962	Finjan Club, Finjan Club Montreal, Quebec, Canada	12	2	disc 3: 12-23
9 July 1962	The 3^rd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	7		disc 1: 22-26 & disc 2: 1, 2
22 September 1962	Carnegie Hall Hootenanny, New York City, New York	5		disc 4: 1-5
September 1962	Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie	2	3	disc 3: 5, 6
15 October 1962	Gaslight Café, New York City, New York	7	4	disc 4: 6-12
26 October 1962	The 4^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	7		disc 2: 3-9
1 November 1962	The 5^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	7		disc 2: 10-16
14 November 1962	The 6^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	3		disc 2: 17-19
6 December 1962	The 7^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session	6		disc 2: 20-25
19 April 1963	Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie	2	3	disc 3: 3, 4

Notes

1. two tracks are identical, see below.

2. the last track on the circulating recording from Finjan Club has here been split into two tracks.

3. liner notes dates this session “Fall 1962”.

4. the exact date is new information from the liner notes.

Studio recordings on disc 1 & 2:
Total number	51
Number of uncirculated recordings	26
Number of previously released recordings	2

Live recordings on disc 3 & 4:
Total number	35
Number of uncirculated recordings	0
Number of previously released recordings	1

4.6.4 Detailed track listing

Disc 1:

The 1^st Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 24 April 1962:

1	Going Down To New Orleans	take 1*	(3:24)	1)
2	Going Down To New Orleans	take 2	(3:11)
3	Sally Gal	take 2	(2:45)
4	Sally Gal	take 3*	(2:32)
5	Rambling Gambling Willie	take 1*	(4:32)
6	Rambling Gambling Willie	take 3*	(4:37)
7	Corrina, Corrina	take 1*	(3:21)	2)
8	Corrina, Corrina	take 2	(3:14)
9	The Death Of Emmett Till	take 1	(4:25)
10	(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle	take 2	(2:07)

* previously uncirculated take

1) in the liner notes credited to Bob Dylan. Also known as I’m Going Down To New Orleans and Going To New Orleans

2) this take and the next has an extra verse.

The 2^nd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 25 April 1962:

11	Rocks And Gravel	take 3	(2:58)
12	Sally Gal	take 4*	(3:12)
13	Sally Gal	take 5	(1:56)
14	Baby Please Don't Go	take 1*	(2:08)
15	Baby Please Don't Go	take 3*	(1:58)
16	Milk Cow's Calf's Blues	take 1*	(2:03)
17	Milk Cow's Calf's Blues	take 3	(2:33)
18	Wichita (Going To Louisiana)	take 1	(3:06)
19	Wichita (Going To Louisiana)	take 2	(2:59)	2)
20	Milk Cow's Calf's Blues	take 4	(2:48)
21	Wichita (Going To Louisiana)	take 2	(2:59)

* previously uncirculated take

2) In the accompanying liner notes this track is mistakenly given as Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues but it is in fact the same as track 21.

The 3^rd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 9 July 1962:

22	Baby, I'm In The Mood For You	take 2*	(2:58)	1)
23	Blowin' In The Wind	take 1*	(2:37)
24	Blowin' In The Wind	take 2*	(2:48)
25	Worried Blues	take 1*	(2:38)
26	Baby, I'm In The Mood For You	take 4	(2:50)

1) alternate lyrics

Disc 2:

The 3^rd Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 9 July 1962 continued:

1 Bob Dylan's Blues take 2* (3:26) 1)

2 Bob Dylan's Blues take 3 (2:19) 2)

* previously uncirculated take

1) new verse

2) same as the version released on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan!

The 4^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 26 October 1962:

3 Corrina Corrina take 2* (2:17)

4 Corrina Corrina take 3* (2:46) 1)

5 That's All Right Mama take 1 (3:23)

6 That's All Right Mama take 3* (2:54)

7 That's All Right Mama take 5* (2:54)

8 Mixed-Up Confusion take 3 (2:36)

9 Mixed-Up Confusion take 5 (2:41)

* previously uncirculated take

1) interrupted take with new last verse

The 5^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 1 November 1962:

10	Mixed-Up Confusion	take 6*	(2:34)
11	Mixed-Up Confusion	take 7*	(2:30)
12	Mixed-Up Confusion	take 9*	(2:22)	1)
13	Mixed-Up Confusion	take 10	(2:15)	2)
14	Mixed-Up Confusion	take 11*	(2:17)
15	That's All Right Mama	take 3*	(2:53)
16	Rocks And Gravel	take 2*	(2:29)

* previously uncirculated take

1) new verse

2) released on the 1985 version of Biograph!

The 6^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 14 November 1962:

17	Ballad Of Hollis Brown	take 2	(5:17)
18	Kingsport Town	take 1*	(1:42)
19	Whatcha Gonna Do	take 1	(3:06)

* previously uncirculated take

The 7^th Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan recording session 6 December 1962:

20	Hero Blues	take 1	(2:53)
21	Whatcha Gonna Do	take 1	(2:01)
22	I Shall Be Free	take 3	(2:44)
23	I Shall Be Free	take 5	(4:29)
24	Hero Blues	take 2	(3:02)
25	Hero Blues	take 4	(2.43)

Disc 3:

Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie, New York City, NY 29 January 1962:

1	Hard Times In New York Town	(1:56)
2	The Death Of Emmett Till	(4:24)

Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie 19 April 1963:

3	I Rode Out One Morning	(2:51)	1)
4	House Of The Risin' Sun	(3:16)	1)

Home Of Eve and Mac MacKenzie September 1962:

5	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	(0:55)	1)
6	Ballad Of Donald White	(4:36)	1)

1) the date in the liner notes dates this track “Fall 1962”.

Gerde's Folk City, New York City, New York 16 April 1962:

7	Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance	(2:27)
8	Talkin' New York	(5:25)
9	Corrina Corrina	(3.53)
10	Deep Ellem Blues	(3:29)
11	Blowin' In The Wind	(3:06)

Finjan Club, Finjan Club Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2 July 1962:

12	The Death Of Emmett Till	(4:39)
13	Stealin', Stealin'	(2:18)
14	Hiram Hubbard	(5:12)
15	Blowin' In The Wind	(3:59)
16	Rocks And Gravel	(4:48)
17	Quit Your Low Down Ways	(3:10)
18	He Was A Friend Of Mine	(4:02)
19	Let Me Die In My Footsteps	(4:58)
20	Two Trains Runnin'	(4:00)
21	Ramblin' On My Mind	(2:50)
22	Blues Yodel No. 8	(1.11)	4)
23	Blues Yodel No. 8 (part 2)	(1:31)

4) Track 22 and 23 are one single track on the circulating recording. The liner notes has the alternative name Muleskinner Blues.

Disc 4:

Carnegie Hall Hootenanny, New York City, New York 22 September 1962:

1	Sally Gal	(2:59)
2	Highway 51	(4:02)
3	Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues	(4:50)
4	Ballad Of Hollis Brown	(5:48)
5	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	(7:06)

Gaslight Café, New York City, New York 15 October 1962:

6	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	(3:25)
7	No More Auction Block	(2:54)
8	Motherless Children	(3:09)
9	Kindhearted Woman Blues	(2:29)
10	Black Cross	(3:59)
11	Ballad Of Hollis Brown	(5.41)
12	Ain't No More Cane	(1:58)

These are the tracks not included in the release Live At The Gaslight 1962 thus making all tracks from this occasion released by Sony Music/Columbia.

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