Stealin'
Last month I finally found the time to read Bob Dylan's autobiography and, despite the fact that about a third of it was devoted to memories of recording albums I have either never listened to or that are terrible, most of the book was amazing. He talks about all of the things I was hoping he would: obscure musical influences, Woody Guthrie, books that he was reading at the time, Dave van Ronk, concerts that he went to, his theories about songwriting, and why he started to suck so bad by the 1970s (he claims it was intentional). It's also written quite beautifully, which is unusual for autobiographies.
Anyway, about that same time, I came across this site which has MP3s of a radio show that Dylan recorded right around the period that most of the book looks at, right before he became super famous and wrote all of his best songs. The radio host is very annoying, but otherwise it’s a really great recording. I especially like the song I've linked to below, but also in one of the interviews when the host asks him: "You haven't played harmonica for long, have you?"
Stealin'
The next song is from a 1969 recording session between Dylan and Johnny Cash that I found from this site. The recordings aren't super great or anything, but they're worth at least listening to.
One too many mornings
1 Comments:
nifty site you have here folks. i really like it -both in content and concept. i have that whole bd interview, or did have on a cassette recorded onto another making use of the awful transfer method on double cassette players. ha! or at least i think i did, is it a bbc interview where the woman refers to his harmonica neck piece as a "necklace" and he bums one of her "long cigarettes"?
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