Today we get another track from Lost On the River: The New Basement Tapes.
This one is titled “Liberty Street.” While the lyrics were written in 1967 by Bob Dylan, the music was written earlier this year by Taylor Goldsmith of the band Dawes.
About the song, Goldsmith say in a press release:
“Liberty Street” was one of the last songs I put together for the record. We didn’t see the lyrics for this song until we got into the studio. Bob Dylan has a way of saying lines like ‘Six months in Kansas City down on Liberty Street’ and it having an immediate, yet sometimes ineffable, power. When I started putting these words to music, the structure of the words dictated the way the chords rolled out so it came together really fast. And the recording of it was our first take.”
“Liberty Street”:
The album will be released on November 10, 2014.
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Listen to 12 songs off Bob Dylan’s soon to be released The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 at NPR “First Listen.” The 6-CD box set is out November 4, 2014.
The songs:
Edge Of The Ocean (Disc 1, Track 1)
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1) (Disc 3, Track 17)
I Shall Be Released (Take 1) (Disc 3, Track 19)
Quinn The Eskimo (Take 1) (Disc 4, Track 4)
This Wheel’s On Fire (Disc 3, Track 21)
Johnny Todd (Disc 2, Track 1)
Don’t Ya Tell Henry (Disc 4, Track 21)
I Don’t Hurt Anymore (Disc 2, Track 19)
Silent Weekend (Disc 5, Track 12)
Crash On The Levee (Take 1) (Disc 3, Track 10)
One Too Many Mornings (Disc 5, Track 2)
I’m Your Teenage Prayer (Disc 2, Track 8)
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Bon Iver performs Bob Dylan’s “With God on Our Side” at McMenamin’s Edgefield in Troutdale, OR on September 24, 2011.
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“All Along the Watchtower” and “Blowin’ in the Wind”:
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Here’s a 1991 performance by Neil Young and Nicolette Larson at the 1991 Bridge School benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA.
They duet on Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young.”
Young plays his old pump organ.
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This 1993 documentary looks at the significance of Highway 61, the road that runs south from Bob Dylan’s home
town of Hibbing, Minnesota and inspired one of his greatest albums. Produced by Arena, the acclaimed British company known for its documentaries.
It’s in four parts on YouTube but some of the audio is missing.
Part One:
Part Two:
Part Three:
Part Four:
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As we get closer to the November 4 release of The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, a previously unheard recording, “Dress It Up, Better Have It All,” has been released and you can check it out below.
The song is rockabilly raveup with Dylan sounding very loose. “One time for Bozo,” Dylan says at one point in the song as Robbie Robertson fires off a short hot solo.
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Jesse Malin and Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins covered Bob Dylan’s “From a Buick 6” at photographer Danny Clinch’s book release party last night (Tuesday, October 14, 2014) at the McKittrick Hotel in New York.
Plus check out Gary U.S. Bonds covering “From A Buick 6”:
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R.E.M. will release on November 24 a 6-DVD set that features all of the group’s live performances on MTV dating back to 1991 – plus lots of outtakes.
I’m an R.E.M. fan from way back, you know, “Radio Free Europe” days.
While I never cared much for MTV, I was always glad to see R.E.M. videos there, and they gave R.E.M. a lot of coverage.
So it’s very cool that, finally, all of MTV’s R.E.M. coverage will be available. So much good stuff!!!
Check out two live performances — “Everybody Hurts” and “Drive” — from the 1993 MTV Video Awards.
The set will also include a brand new documentary, “R.E.M. By MTV,” put together by MTV using archival footage. According to R.E.M.’s website, “Drawing exclusively on archival events, the film traces R.E.M. and MTV in real time, which makes it feel as exciting and immediate as it did when it was happening.”
This is what’s in the set:
Disc 1
UNPLUGGED 1991
(04/10/91)
Half A World Away
Disturbance at the Heron House
Radio Song
Low
Perfect Circle
Fall on Me
Belong
Love is All Around
Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Losing My Religion
Pop Song 89
Endgame
OUTTAKES 1991
Fretless
Swan Swan H
Rotary Eleven
Get Up
World Leader Pretend
UNPLUGGED 2001
(05/21/01)
All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star) *
Electrolite
At My Most Beautiful *
Daysleeper *
So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
Losing My Religion
Country Feedback
Cuyahoga
Imitation of Life *
Find the River
OUTTAKES 2001
The One I Love
Disappear *
Beat a Drum *
I’ve Been High *
I’ll Take the Rain *
Sad Professor *
The Great Beyond *
Disc 2
VH1 STORYTELLERS
(10/23/98)
Electrolite
Daysleeper *
Losing My Religion
Perfect Circle
Sad Professor *
Fall On Me
I’m Not Over You *
The Apologist *
Man On The Moon
STORYTELLERS – OUTTAKES
New Test Leper
Parakeet *
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
Suspicion *
Walk Unafraid *
At My Most Beautiful *
THE CUTTING EDGE
(06/14/84)
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
Driver 8
Wendell Gee
Smokin’ In The Boys Room
Time After Time (Annelise)
Driver 8
LIVEWIRE
(10/30/83)
So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)
MTV 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
(11/10/91)
Featuring members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Losing My Religion
VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 1993
(09/02/93)
Including Brian Harris and Duane Saetveit
Everybody Hurts
Drive
VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 1995
(09/07/95)
The Wake-Up Bomb
EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS 1998
(11/12/98)
Daysleeper *
EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS 2001
(11/08/01)
Imitation Of Life *
ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION 2007
(03/12/07)
Begin The Begin
Gardening At Night
Man On The Moon
THE COLBERT REPORT
04/02/08)
Supernatural Superserious *
Disc 3
R.E.M. IN DALLAS
(09/19/95)
I Took Your Name
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush With Eyeliner
R.E.M. UPLINK AT BOWERY BALLROOM
(10/28/98)
Losing My Religion
Lotus *
Daysleeper *
E-Bow The Letter
The Apologist *
So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
Walk Unafraid *
Man On The Moon
Radio Free Europe
LIVE IN COLOGNE
(05/12/01)
All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star) *
The Lifting *
Imitation Of Life *
The One I Love
She Just Wants To Be *
Walk Unafraid *
Losing My Religion
Man On The Moon
Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
LIVE IN COLOGNE OUTTAKES
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Cuyahoga
Electrolite
I’ve Been High *
Find The River
I’ll Take The Rain *
At My Most Beautiful *
So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
Disc 4
R.E.M. AT THE TABERNACLE, LONDON
(03/02/99)
Losing My Religion
Daysleeper *
Walk Unafraid *
Man On The Moon
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
MTV SONIC MILAN
(05/02/01)
Losing My Religion
The Great Beyond *
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Daysleeper *
All The Way To Reno (You’re Gonna Be A Star) *
The Lifting *
I’ll Take The Rain *
I’ve Been High *
Man On The Moon
She Just Wants To Be *
Imitation Of Life *
ROCK AM RING
(06/03/05)
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Leaving New York *
Imitation Of Life *
Electron Blue *
Man On The Moon
ROCK AM RING OUTTAKES
I Took Your Name
Bad Day
Drive
The Outsiders *
Leave
Me In Honey
Wanderlust *
Everybody Hurts
Electrolite
Orange Crush
The One I Love
Walk Unafraid *
Losing My Religion
Imitation Of Life *
The Great Beyond *
Animal *
I’m Gonna DJ *
Disc 5
LIVE AT ROLLING STONE, MILAN
(03/18/08)
Living Well Is The Best Revenge *
Drive
Accelerate *
Hollow Man *
Electrolite
Houston *
Supernatural Superserious *
Bad Day
Losing My Religion
I’m Gonna DJ *
Horse To Water *
Imitation Of Life *
Until The Day Is Done *
Man On The Moon
LIVE AT OXEGEN FESTIVAL
(07/12/08)
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
Its The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Man-Sized Wreath *
I’m Gonna DJ *
Supernatural Superserious *
Man On The Moon
R.E.M. IN ATHENS, GREECE
(10/05/08)
Living Well Is The Best Revenge *
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
Man-Sized Wreath *
Bad Day
Electrolite
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
The Great Beyond *
The One I Love
Losing My Religion
Let Me In
Orange Crush
Imitation Of Life *
Supernatural Superserious *
Man On The Moon
Disc 6
R.E.M. BY MTV
DELETED SCENES
Peter
Politics
Golf
The Hornblower Affair
The Year 2000
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Bob Dylan’s notebook page where he wrote the lyrics to “Spanish Mary.”
During the summer of 1967, up in Woodstock, New York, Bob Dylan wrote a batch of song lyrics that he didn’t set music to and didn’t record.
Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes is an album of those songs produced by T Bone Burnett due out November 10, 2014. Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and Marcus Mumford are the artists that came together to record the songs.
Today, one of those songs, “Spanish Mary,” was released and I was able to get a copy of Bob Dylan’s notebook page, on which he wrote the lyrics to the song.
For this one, Rhiannon Giddens wrote the music and her performance on the recording is very powerful.
She stays true to the lyrics as Dylan wrote them.
In examining Dylan’s notebook page, there are a couple of lines he crossed out.
In the second verse, the second line, “Upon their ship quite scary” was crossed out and replaced by “no longer could they tarry.”
Dylan crossed out the beginning of the third line, “it was to see them,” leaving only the end of that line, “Swoon and Swerve.”
Off to the side Dylan tried out some alternatives, writing “Some sing like,” and then right under it, “Song sing like a canary.”
In the third verse, “In Kingsport town was changed to “In Kingston Town,” and minor changes in the line that follows were made.
Minor – one or two word – changes were made in the third, fourth and fifth verses.
Check out the video:
In a press release, Giddens, who wrote the music for the song and sings the lead vocal, says of the track:
“Out of all the lyrics I looked through for the New Basement Tapes project, the one for ‘Spanish Mary’ attracted me first – here was a ballad, and I know ballads! It’s also set in the Caribbean, so I felt the deep African sound of the minstrel style banjo (circa 1856) was appropriate. It was an absolute thrill to get to set music to Dylan’s lyrics, what an opportunity! This project is marked with utter generosity from everyone involved.”
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