Leírás
Pop, Folk, this CD features the best of all three of these recordings all of which were made on a vintage reel-to-reel tape machine in the informal setting of the McKenzie apartment in 1961-1962.
The audio quality of these tapes is not in line with modern and consideration should be given to the circumstances in which these recordings were created.
Shortly after Bob Dylan arrived in New York in January 1961, he met Eve and Mac McKenzie at Gerdes Folk City, introduced to him by Woody Guthries wife, Marjorie. Folk enthusiasts, the McKenzies had an apartment north of the Village where some of the young would-be folk musicians often met up. Dylan became a regular visitor and soon a houseguest too, sleeping on the couch in the familys living room.
The middle-aged couple, generous down-to-earth folks, were among the first to adopt Dylan. Mac was a hard working, hard-drinking longshoreman, Eve, an ex-Martha Graham dancer, described Dylan as looking like a character out of Dickens, with long coat and cap.
The original tape was most likely recorded over three sessions. The first was on November 23, 1961 after a Thanksgiving Day meal with the McKenzies. The second was made about ten days later on or around December 4, 1961. Although other session may have been taped in the interim, the next known recording is believed to be from September 1962.
Felvételek :
1. Hard Times in New York Town 0:59
2. Wayfaring Stranger 0:45
3. Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad 0:21
4. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 3:21
5. Worried Blues 0:51
6. Baby of Mine 1:01
7. Instrumental One 0:23
8. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 1:58
9. Fixin to Die 1:10
10. San Francisco Bay Blues 1:55
11. Youre No Good 1:25
12. House of the Rising Sun 6:47
13. Instrumental Two 2:19
14. Roll in My Sweet Babys Arms / Bells of Rhymney 0:40
15. Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies 1:58
16. Roll in My Sweet Babys Arms 1:46
17. Bells of Rhymney 3:06
18. Instrumental Three 1:29
19. Highway 51 4:26
20. This Land Is Your Land 3:15
21. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 1:01
22. A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall 7:23
23. Instrumental Four 2:20
24. James Alley Blues 2:44
25. Hard Times in New York 1:58
26. The Death of Emmett Till 4:27
27. I Rode Out One Morning 2:59
28. House of the Rising Sun 3:24
29. See That My Grave is Kept Clean 1:09
30. Ballad of Donald White 4:39
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