I SHALL BE RELEASED - BOB DYLAN 2005
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INTRODUCTION
This was the year with an almost never-ending flood
of releases: Live At The Gaslight 1962, Music From The Motion Picture
And the Never-Ending Tour kept rolling on. Bob
Dylan played 112 concerts in US and
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2005 AT A GLANCE
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THE 2005 CALENDAR
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4
February |
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson win
the award for Most Creative Tour Package at the annual Pollstar Concert
Industry Awards in the Wiltern LG Theatre, |
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7 March |
This year’s touring starts with
a show in the Paramount
Theatre
in Seattle, Washington. It is a
three-gig residency, the first of a series. Among the others: Oakland, California, 3 shows, Los Angeles, California, 5 shows,
Chicago, Illinois, 5 shows and New York City, New York, also 5 shows. The
band has changed, Larry Campbell
has left and three new members have joined: Denny Freeman on guitar, Donnie Herron from BR549 on violin, mandolin and
pedal steel guitar and Elana Fremerman
from Hot Club of Cowtown on
violin. Dylan
is supported by Merle Haggard and his
song Sing Me Back Home is performed
a number of times. For some reason Merle Haggard never joined Dylan on stage
during the tour. |
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11
March |
During the first show in Portland,
Oregon Hank Cochran’s song A-11 is played. |
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18
March |
Set
list in Reno, Nevada
features |
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15
April |
At
the first show in Boston,
Massachusetts Hazel, Shelter
From The Storm, Tomorrow Is A Long Time and Chimes Of Freedom returns to the set. |
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16
April |
At
the second show in Boston,
Massachusetts Lenny Bruce is
played for the first time since Cedar Rapids 3 April 2000.
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17
April |
And
at the third show in Boston,
Massachusetts I Dreamed I Saw |
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22
April |
Elana
Fremerman plays her last concert with Dylan in Mashantucket,
Connecticut. The band without her will continue and play 441 shows, the last one in
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30
April |
The
Spring tour ends with five shows in The Beacon Theater in |
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25 May |
A
joint 31-stop Summer tour with Willie Nelson starts in Fort
Myers, Florida. |
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12 June |
The
show in Zebulon, North
Carolina features the first live performance of New Morning since Sudbury,
Ontario, Canada, 23 August 1992. |
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16 June |
At
the show in Camden, New
Jersey Lucas Nelson joins the band on guitar on Down Along The Cove and Highway
61 Revisited. |
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17 June |
Dylan
goes in a studio in Conshohocken,
Pennsylvania with the band and records the song Tell Ol' Bill for the film |
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4 July |
Dylan
and the band perform at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic in Fort
Worth, Texas. Willie Nelson joins on vocal & guitar on
Hank William’s You Win Again. |
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12 July |
The
Summer tour ends in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Lucas Nelson plays guitar on Lonesome
Day Blues. |
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16 July |
Dylan
and the band play a short nine song set at Amazon.com 10th Anniversary Event
in Seattle,
Washington. The show was broadcast live over Internet. |
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17 July |
A
short tour in |
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31 July |
The
tour ends with a show in Bend, Oregon. |
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30
August |
Live At The Gaslight 1962 is released, an album of live recordings from October 1962. The album was
previously only available through outlets of the Starbucks coffee chain. |
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30
August |
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: New Direction Home: The
Soundtrack (to Martin Scorsese’s film No Direction Home) is released. |
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30
August |
Live At Carnegie Hall
promo CD is “released”. See section 4.4 below. |
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12
September |
The
film |
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16
September |
A
Dylan photograph exhibition called “The Official Bob Dylan Exhibition at
Ericsson Prod Camden” opens in a gallery in |
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24
September |
Snap
Galleries in |
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27
September |
The Band: A Musical History, 5CD+DVD box, is released. It
contains two unreleased Bob Dylan tracks, Tell
Me Momma from Liverpool, England,
14 May 1966 and Highway 61 Revisited from New York City, New York, evening
show 31 January 1974. |
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October |
The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966 is published by Simon & Schuster. It is marketed as “A companion
volume to the No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, a Martin Scorsese picture”. A CD
with interviews is included. See below section 4.6. |
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3
October |
The
film No Direction Home by Martin
Scorsese is released on DVD. |
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11
October |
The
soundtrack to the film |
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11
October |
Dylan
gets an award for best Memoir/Biography at the Quill Books Awards in |
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17
October |
The
perennial tour of Europe starts in Stockholm,
Sweden. |
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10
October |
The Concert For Bangla Desh is released on a double DVD. |
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12
November |
Never-Ending
Tour concert # 1800 is played in Milan, Italy. |
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16 November |
Dylan
is inducted into the UK Music Hall Of Fame in a ceremony held at |
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20
November |
The
first four shows at the Brixton
Academy in London starts with an instrumental version of Link Wray’s Rumble. |
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21
November |
Three
songs make their live debut this evening:
Million Dollar Bash, Waiting For You and London Calling by The Clash. |
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21
November |
Handwritten pages of Dylan’s
student poetry fetch are sold for $78,000 in a Rock & Pop Memorabilia
auction at Christie’s, |
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23
November |
Blue
Monday by Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino makes its live debut as first encore.
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24
November |
London Calling
is again first encore this evening. |
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27
November |
This
year’s last concert takes place at The Point
Depot in Dublin, Ireland after 31 shoes in |
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28-29
November |
Dylan
and the band stay on in |
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13
December |
It
is announced that Dylan has agreed to host a weekly, one-hour music show,
Theme Time, for XM Satellite Radio's Deep Tracks channel. |
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4
NEW RELEASES AND
RECORDINGS
4.1
Live At The Gaslight 1962
Columbia Legacy A
96016, released 30 August 2005
Contains the
following tracks:
1. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
2. Rocks And Gravel
3. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
4. Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird (trad.)
5. Moonshine Blues (trad.)
6. Handsome Molly
(trad.)
7. Cocaine (trad.
arr. Revd. Gary Davies)
8.
9.
Barbara Allen
(trad.)
10.
All recorded October 1962, for
This album was originally only available at the coffee-shop chain
Starbucks’ outlets.
4.2
Music
from the motion picture North Country
Sony Music
Soundtrax CD 97777, released 11 October 2005.
Contains the
following tracks:
Gustavo
Santaolalla
Leo Kottke Girl Of The
Bob Dylan Tell Ol' Bill
Warren Zevon Werewolves Of
Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes
The Bellamy
Brothers If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)
Bob Dylan Lay, Lady, Lay
Gustavo
Santaolalla A Saturday In My Classroom
Bob Dylan Sweetheart Like You
Mac
Bob Dylan Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
Gustavo
Santaolalla Standing Up
Cat Power Paths Of Victory
The third track was recorded during the US Summer Tour in Studio 4,
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 17 June. All other Dylan tracks are taken from the officially
released albums.
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4.3
The
Bootleg Series Vol. 7: New Direction Home: The Soundtrack
* these tracks were new to collectors at the time of release.
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4.4
Live
At Carnegie Hall
This promo CD from Columbia Legacy, available 30 August 2005, from the
concert in Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, 26
October 1963 was distributed free if you bought the No Direction Home Soundtrack CD
or Bob Dylan Scrapbook. It contain the following tracks:
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
With God On Our Side
4.5
No
Direction Home -film by Martin Scorsese
A 2-DVD release from
The film features the following full length performances:
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song |
recording date |
programme/film |
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Blowin In The Wind |
Folk Songs and More Folk Songs |
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Girl From The |
Quest |
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Man Of Constant Sorrow |
Folk Songs and More Folk Songs |
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Mr. Tambourine Man |
Festival! outtake |
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Love Minus Zero/No Limit |
Don’t Look Back outtake |
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I Can’t Leave Her Behind |
Eat The Document |
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Like A Rolling Stone |
Eat The Document outtake |
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One Too Many Mornings |
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Eat The Document outtake |
The promotional spot
for Positively 4th Street is from White Plains, New York 5 February 1966.
4.6
The
Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
This CD, produced by
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# |
Interviewer |
time |
date |
programme/station |
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1 |
Oscar
Brand |
1:09 |
Folk Song
Festival |
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2 |
Cynthia
Gooding |
4:19 |
Folksinger’s
Choice |
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3 |
Allen
Stone |
6:20 |
WDTM |
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4 |
Martin Bronstein |
9:51 |
Canadian
Broadcasting Company |
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5-14 |
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25:00 |
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4.7
The
Concert for Bangla Desh
This is double DVD
set, released on Rhino, 19 October 2005. The first DVD contains the concert
film. The second film contains special features. The Bob Dylan contributions on
this disc are: If Not For You from
the rehearsal and the first four
songs from the afternoon concert.
4.8
Web
Bob
The official Bob Dylan homepage on the
Internet, www.bobdylan.com, featured the
following tracks in 2005:
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I Dreamed I Saw S:t
Augustine |
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I Believe In You |
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High Water (for Chatlie
Patton) |
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Visions Of Johanna |
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Under The Red Sky |
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Shooting Star |
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