A lot of time spent in studios in Nashville and New York results in the songs released on Self Portrait and New Morning, and later on Columbia Records "revenge album" Dylan. Apart from the songs on New Morning these songs are covers. No live appearances are known from 1970, only the brief appearance in the TV program Earls Scruggs Documentary in December.

2 The Year At a glance

1970 Calendar

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3 CALENDAR

3 – 5 March	Self Portrait sessions in New York City.
1 May	New Morning session in New York City.
17 May	Dylan participates in the TV program Earl Scruggs Documentary.
1 – 5 June	New Morning sessions in New York City.
8 June	Release of Self Portrait.
9 June	Dylan accepts an honorary doctorate in music at Princeton University.
30 June	New Morning session in New York City.
July	Release of Wigwam/Copper Kettle single.
Summer	Dylan visits Israel.
12 August	Last New Morning session in New York City.
18 September	Jimi Hendrix dies.
4 October	Janis Joplin dies.
21 October	Release of New Morning.
November	Tarantula is finally published by MacMillan.

4 RECORDINGS

3 – 5 March	New York City, New York	Self Portrait sessions
11 – 17 March	Nashville, Tennessee	Self Portrait overdub sessions
26 – 27 March	Los Angeles, California	Self Portrait overdub sessions
30 March	Nashville, Tennessee	Self Portrait overdub session
2 – 3 April	Nashville, Tennessee	Self Portrait overdub sessions
1 May	New York City, New York	New Morning session
17 May	Carmel, New York	Earl Scruggs Documentary
1 – 5 June	New York City, New York	New Morning sessions
30 June	New York City, New York	New Morning session
13, 23 July	New York City, New York	New Morning overdub sessions
12 August	New York City, New York	Last New Morning session

For details please refer to the corresponding Still On The Road session pages.

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5 SELF PORTRAIT

This album was recorded during three recording sessions during spring 1969 in Nashville, Tennessee and three more a year later in New York City. Session overview[1]:

		# of		take released on
Date	Song		takes		SP[2]	DY [3]
24 April 1969	Living The Blues		6		6
	Spanish Is The Loving Tongue		7			7
26 April 1969 [4]	Take Me As I Am		1		1
	A Fool Such As I		1			1
	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know		1		1
	Let It Be Me		1		1
	Running		1
3 May 1969 [5]	Take A Message To Mary		1		1
	Blue Moon		1		1
	Ring Of Fire
	Folsom Prison Blues
3 March 1970	Pretty Saro		6
	Little Sadie		1		1
	Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay		1
	Went To See The Gypsy		1
	In Search Of Little Sadie		1		1
	Belle Isle		1		1
	Universal Soldier		1
	Copper Kettle		1		1
	When A Fellow's Out Of A Job		1
	These Hands		1
	It Hurts Me Too		1		1
	The Boxer		1		1
	Spanish Is The Loving Tongue		1
	Woogie Boogie		1		1
4 March 1970	Went To See The Gypsy		5
	Thirsty Boots		5
	Tattle O-Day		1
	Railroad Bill		1
	House Carpenter		1
	This Evening So Soon		1
	Days Of ’49		1		1
	Annie's Going To Sing Her Song		1
	Early Morning Rain		1		1
	Wigwam		1		1
	Time Passes Slowly		1
5 March 1970	Alberta		2
	Alberta No. 2		1		1
	Little Moses		1
	Alberta No. 1		1		1
	Come A Little Bit Closer		1
	Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies		1
	My Previous Life		3
	Gotta Travel On		1		1
	Went To See The Gypsy		1
	Time Passes Slowly		1
	Come A Little Bit Closer		2
	All The Tired Horses		1		1

For more details about some of these sessions please refer to the corresponding session page in Still On The Road.

Live history

Song	Debut
Gotta Travel On	Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida, 18 April 1976.
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know	Athletic Park, Wellington, New Zealand, 5 February 1986.
Let It Be Me	Stade de Colombes, Colombes, France, June 23, 1981.
The Boxer	Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, Florida, 2 September 1999 in duet with Paul Simon
Early Morning Rain	Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 3 July 1989.

The other songs on Self Portrait have probably never been played live.

Performances during The Never-Ending Tour:

The Boxer	1999
Early Morning Rain	1989 – 1991

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6 NEW MORNING

At least 195 takes of 50 songs during 8 recording sessions yielded the 12 songs on New Morning. 1 further song was released as a single and another 7 were later released on Dylan. A couple of the songs were also tried out during the Self Portrait sessions, see previous chapter. Here's a summary of the sessions[6]:

			# of		take released on
Date	Song	takes		NM[7]		BS[8]	DY[9]	MP[10]
1 May [11]	Sign On The Window	5		5
	If Not For You	5
	Time Passes Slowly	4
	Working On A Guru	1
	Went To See The Gypsy	1
	Song To Woody	1
	Mama, You Been On My Mind	1
	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	1
	Yesterday	1
	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues	1
	Met Him On A Sunday	1
	One Too Many Mornings	2
	Ghost Riders In The Sky	1
	Cupid	1
	All I Have To Do Is Dream	1
	Gates Of Eden	1
	I Threw It All Away	1
	I Don't Believe You	1
	Matchbox	1
	Your True Love	1
	Telephone Wire	1
	Fishin' Blues	1
	Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance	1
	Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35	1
	It Ain't Me, Babe	1
1 June	Alligator Man	6
	The Ballad Of Ira Hayes	1					1
	Oh Lonesome Me	3
	Mary Ann	7
	Sarah Jane	8					5\|8[12]
2 June	Spanish Is The Loving Tongue	2						2[13]
	Mary Ann	9					7
	Mr. Bojangles	6					6
	If Not For You	2
	Time Passes Slowly	14
3 June	Jamaica Farewell	1
	Can't Help Falling In Love	3					3
	Long Black Veil	1
	Lily Of The West	2					2
	One More Weekend	2		2
4 June	Bring Me Water	2
	Three Angels	3		3
	Tomorrow Is A Long Time	3
	Big Yellow Taxi	7					5+7[14]
	New Morning	3		3
5 June	If Dogs Run Free	3		3
	Went To See The Gypsy	4		4
	Sign On The Window	8
	Winterlude	5		4
	I Forgot To Remember To Forget	2
	The Man In Me	2		1\|2[15]
	Ahoooah (Owau)	1
	Father Of Night	11		11
	Lily Of The West	4
30 June	Blowin’ In The Wind	13
12 August	If Not For You	5		5
	Time Passes Slowly	8		3
	Day Of The Locusts	7		7

For more details about some of these sessions please refer to the corresponding session page in Still On The Road.

Live history

Song	Debut
If Dogs Run Free	Halle Münsterland, Münster, Germany, 1 October 2000.
If Not For You	State Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 14 April 1992.
The Man In Me	Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 20 February 1978.
New Morning	Saenger Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana, 19 April 1991.

Day Of The Locusts, Father Of Night, One More Weekend, Sign On The Windo, Three Angels, Time Passes Slowly, Went To See The Gypsy and Winterlude have probably never been played live.

There are no officially released live versions of the songs on New Morning.

Performances during The Never-Ending Tour:

If Dogs Run Free	2000, 2001
If Not For You	1992 – 2001
The Man In Me	1988 – 1991, 1993 – 2000
New Morning	1991 – 1992

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7 SONGS 1970

Winter	All The Tired Horses
	Wigwam
March	Went To See The Gypsy
	Woogie Boogie
May	Air To Breathe[16]
	I'd Have You Any Time [17]
	If Not For You
	Time Passes Slowly
	Working On A Guru
August	Day Of The Locusts
	Father Of Night
	If Dogs Run Free
	The Man In Me
	New Morning
	One More Weekend
	Sign On The Window
	Three Angels
	Winterlude

8 SOURCES

Tim Dunn	I Just Write 'Em As They Come. Annotated Guide to the Writings of Bob Dylan A Not-A-Ces Publishing Venture 1990.
Glen Dundas	Tangled Up In Tapes — 4th Edition A Recording History of Bob Dylan SMA Services, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 1999. Softcover 334 pages.
Clinton Heylin	A Life In Stolen Moments. Bob Dylan Day By Day 1941-1995. Schirmer Books 1996, 404 pages.
Clinton Heylin	Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994 St. Martin's Press, 1995, 233 pages.
Michael Krogsgaard	Positively Bob Dylan. A Thirty-Year Discography, Concert & Record Session Guide 1960-1991. Popular Culture, Ink. 1991. 500 pages

9 SUGGESTED READINGS

9.1 General background

Michael Gray	Song & Dance Man III. The Art Of Bob Dylan Cassell 1999. Hardback 918 pages (!!)
Clinton Heylin	Behind The Shades. A Biography. Summit Books 1991, 500 pages.
Anthony Scaduto	Bob Dylan. An intimate biography. New American Library 1973
Robert Shelton	No Direction Home. The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New American Library 1986.
Howard Sounes	Down The Highway. The Life Of Bob Dylan. Groove Press 2001.

9.2 Article compilations

Carl Benson (ed)

The Bob Dylan Companion — Four Decades of Commentary.

Schirmer Books, New York 1998. Softcover 306 pages.

Craig McGregor (ed)

Bob Dylan. A Retrospective. William Morrow 1972

Elizabeth M. Thomson (ed)

Conclusions On The Wall. New Essays On Bob Dylan.

Thin Man 1980

9.3 Selected article

Interview: Harvey Brooks – The Telegraph 47 (Winter 1993)

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[4] No session sheet available from this session, there was probably several takes of each song.

[5] No session sheet available from this session, there was probably several takes of each song.

[17] Co-written with George Harrison and recorded by him on the album All Things Must Pass, which also contains a nice cover of If Not For You.

Debut

Debut

7 SONGS 1970

Bob Dylan, The Recording Sessions 1960-1994

Carl Benson (ed)