I put Dylan’s Album Good As I Been To You in the dropbox. And I couldn’t not follow that up with World Gone Wrong. So I thought I’d let everybody know these two albums are in there. They were recorded in the early 90s, within a year of each other. They’re unusual Dylan albums because there’s not a single original song on there. And it’s the first acoustic-just-Dylan-and-his-guitar album since the early 60s. If you don’t like Dylan’s marmite voice, imagine it completely destroyed by over use and abuse, and you have his voice as it sounds on these albums. They both kill me, though. The songs are so raw, and his performance is so virtuosic (on guitar) and so completely honest and heart-felt. For your delectation, on my list I’ve put two Dylan “covers” coupled with their Blind Willie McTell originals.
Anyway…it’s in the box. I’d be curious to hear what people make of these albums.
Thanks, steenbeck – I’ll have a listen later (ie when not at work).
I bought the much-derided Empire Burlesque album yesterday – I have several bootlegs of Dylan’s world tour with TP&TH in 86/7 and hadn’t realised that many of the songs he performs on those were from that album (on which several of the Heartbreakers played). I know the songs so well now from listening to the bootlegs it’ll be interesting to hear them on the album. Haven’t played it yet.
So I could drop that one…maybe leave a bit of a gap though so people don’t get Bob overload.
I love ‘Good as I been to you’ with a passion. Brilliant. World Gone Wrong ive been saving for just such an occasion..
What a very rich Dropbox we have this week – two Dylan LPs and Spirit’s 12 Dreams, I’m swimming in musical joy.
Black Jack Davey comes up without a composer credit – although all the others are public domain/trad. arr – is that one of a similar diocese ?
Thanks for the kind thought.
Thanks Steen,
I’ll give these a listen over the next couple of days.
Thank you so much for posting these, steenbeck – I don’t know how I came to miss them, as to me they’re a welcome return to the traditional music he started with, and remind me a lot of that set of very early demos that have just been released and which I love so much.
I started with Freewheelin’ myself, quickly realised there had been an earlier one and bought that, and then kept up with him as he brought out new ones – not being fazed by his going electric in the slightest, because to me each new album that came out broke new ground and took me a little time to adjust to, and that was just normal for me in listening to Dylan. When Blonde On Blonde arrived, though, because it was a double, I couldn’t afford it. Must’ve got more affluent after a bit, because I then bought that and caught up as far as Nashville Skyline; but after that me’n'Bob became a lot more off and on. Of course my moving in with a man with no record player didn’t help…
…and when eventually I came to my senses and demanded that we get one, I had missed some Bob and now here I am with some enormous gaps which you’ve now helped me to fill.