Bob Dylan Bootleg series wins CD review competition
Bob Dylan has been creating his own special brand of music fifty years and in that time he has produced a countless studio and collaborative albums and played literally thousands of concerts globally. Bob Dylan's musical style has seen many flavours over the years but for those of us who were not around in the early days the CD review, written by Christopher wins him a £50 Amazon voucher and leads us towards a small and sensational piece of music history.
Bob Dylan was playing the on the folk music circuit and being followed by several key players in the music industry including folk music manager Albert Grossman who had an arrangement with a Warner holding company in music publishing who agreed to Grossman signing artists for a 50% royalties share. Grossman persuaded Dylan to get out of a contract commitment to Leeds/Duchess. Leeds/Duchess accepted $1000 dollars to release Dylan, and as he hadn't produced any record sales for them this would have appeared a good deal. Dylan signed a contract with Witmark and over the next months produced a batch of new songs including the ground breaking 'blowin in the wind' and a rock n roll legend transcended from a folk singing cradle. Over the next two years Bob Dylan recorded 11 demos in a tiny studio, with most of them being intended to be for other artists to produce and perform professionally.
However the full story of Bob Dylan's early days as a singer songwriter is best described through this fantastic CD entitled Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series – Volume 9 The Witmark Demos: 1962 – 1964 – a two disc collection of over 40 songs, plus a limited edition bonus disc of Dylan performing live at Brandeis University in 1963.
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Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series Vol.9 The Witmark Demos: Track Listing
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1. "Man on the Street" (Fragment) – 1:07
2. "Hard Times in New York Town" – 1:57
3. "Poor Boy Blues" – 3:01
4. "Ballad for a Friend" – 2:23
5. "Rambling, Gambling Willie" – 3:38
6. "Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" – 3:42
7. "Standing on the Highway" – 2:32
8. "Man on the Street" – 1:30
9. "Blowin' in the Wind" – 2:38
10. "Long Ago, Far Away" – 2:29
11. "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" – 6:49
12. "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" – 3:46
13. "The Death of Emmett Till" – 4:32
14. "Let Me Die in My Footsteps" – 1:37
15. "Ballad of Hollis Brown" – 4:08
16. "Quit Your Low Down Ways" – 2:50
17. "Baby, I'm in the Mood for You" – 1:36
18. "Bound to Lose, Bound to Win" – 1:19
19. "All Over You" – 3:52
20. "I'd Hate to Be You on That Dreadful Day" – 2:00
21. "Long Time Gone" – 3:46
22. "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" – 3:17
23. "Masters of War" – 4:23
24. "Oxford Town" – 2:33
25. "Farewell" – 3:58
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26. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" – 3:38
27. "Walkin' Down the Line" – 3:23 Series Volume I
28. "I Shall Be Free" – 4:30
29. "Bob Dylan's Blues" – 1:58
30. "Bob Dylan's Dream" – 3:53
31. "Boots of Spanish Leather" – 5:49
32. "Girl from the North Country" – 3:09
33. "Seven Curses" – 3:13
34. "Hero Blues" – 1:36
35. "Whatcha Gonna Do?" – 3:36
36. "Gypsy Lou" – 3:45
37. "Ain't Gonna Grieve" – 1:28
38. "John Brown" – 4:19
39. "Only a Hobo" – 2:25
40. "When the Ship Comes In" – 2:56
41. "The Times They Are a-Changin'" – 3:03
42. "Paths of Victory" – 4:11
43. "Guess I'm Doing Fine" – 4:08
44. "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" (Eric Von Schmidt, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk) – 1:56
45. "Mama, You Been on My Mind" – 2:14
46. "Mr. Tambourine Man" – 5:55
47. "I'll Keep It with Mine" – 3:34
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