BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

self portrait ain't bad. i always liked his cover of "Gotta Travel On" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain." In fact, all the covers except for "The Boxer" are at least interesting, if memory serves. and there's a ramshackle (possibly live?) "Quinn the Eskimo"

im a big fan of self portrait and new morning...

even winterlude and the simon and garfunkel cover

i'm now totally convinced "Went to see the gypsy" is about elvis.

still need to get street legal....i bought biograph on vinyl a while back and "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" is so great.

np: "Winterlude"

the corny female scat singing on if dogs run free is wtflol but also kind of awesome at the same time

this kinda bums me out though cuz it's so fucking cold right now in minneapolis...this is an album that makes me wanna drink a beer outside when it's warm ;_;

current temp: 2O degrees F

posted to another dylan thread:

but what i really want to say is i downloaded some stuff from the "new morning" sessions and i've gotta say it's a revelation. i long ago absorbed the complete basement tapes and the new york blood on the tapes sessions and the myriad outtakes from blonde on blonde... and frankly every other bootleg i've heard since then has been sort of just OK, even including the dylan/cash sessions. but this "new morning" stuff is amazing! although i say that as a big fan of the album, which i know is not a consensus favorite.

by the way the remaster of this sounds excellent.

Yeah my roommate counts this as the best Dylan album and he peed his pants when his remaster came in the mail. Need to listen to this again when I get home.

A friend that Dylan's piano really sounds great.

gotta get that remaster. btw, i agree, the outtakes are really great -- here's my own comp of some of the best stuff http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/100814102/winterlude-the-early-word-on-the-new-dylan-album

thx dude!

no prob. yr gonna like it! the "gypsy" there is worth the price of admission alone.

Yes! This remaster and the "Hokoyo!" Thomas Mapfumo reissue on Water are my two fave reissues of the year so far...

I think I've listened to "The Man in Me" like 50 times in the last week

what an album

I am still really into this record btw

was just thinking of something to listen to on my ipod good call

yeah this record is very very good

If Dogs Run Free is totally hilarious - a little jazz piano doodling, some dog noises, Dylan mumbling. AWESOME

weirdly, dylan actually plays that song live from time to time.

I had this on my iPod on my way to work today - put me in such a good mood, it's far better than I remembered it being. 'Day of the Locusts' is a great song! I don't actually own the CD anymore, I should pick up that remastered version.

Maybe this has been pointed before on the thread, but it boggles my mind that "Gypsy" features Dylan's only mention of the state of Minnesota

c'est

he talks about duluth on "Something There Is About You"

not entirely related but does anyone remember which ilx thread was the one where someone accidentally posted the album cover of 'empire burlesque' when they meant to post a different image and it turned into a running metajoke?

Aw man this is so nice to hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV2FFNVmJQI

the electric piano outtake version of "went to see the gypsy" is A++

yeah it's something isn't it? nothing else remotely like it in his career.

wish it were on youtube or something for other folks

Listened to the album on a road trip today!

this record has a sort of The Band vibe, but with a lighter touch

I'll say it again: I love Dylan's piano on this.

wish it were on youtube or something for other folks
i think it was released officially on some kind of itunes comp, but maybe just in the UK?

at this point in my life whenever i'm like 'hey i'd like to listen to some bob dylan right now' i usually go with this or self portrait

"How are you?" he said to me/I said it back to him

^^best dylan lyric ever

if only had to listen to one dylan song for the rest of my life it would easily be "Went To See the Gypsy"

i went down to the lob-beh

that little minnesota towwwwwn

there's some chatter in the dylan community that the next bootleg series is going to be made up of 1969-70 sessions. which is a good idea!

oooh!

he can move you from the rear

charlie daniels kills it on this record

haha awesome:

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@CharlieDaniels - listening to New Morning by Bob Dylan, your bass playing on that is so great. do you remember much about those sessions?
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twitter!

pro tip: don't read any other tweets by mr. daniels

wow!

is russ kunkel on twitter

only reference to him on twitter i could find (assuming this is the same dude, glad he's still getting good paying gigs!)

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the kunk! he's got a cool resume. the go-to folk/country/rock session drummer! guess he's been with lovett forever now.

The back cover art of this album is so wtf, with that irrelevent Victoria Spivey photo and the album title in quotes with a kinda used-cars font - it's like he hoped it would be mistaken for a cheap bootleg or something.

yeah it is pretty random, wonder what the thinking was.
i read some essay a long time ago that made the claim that if dylan was bearded on the front album photograph it meant that it was not an actual bob dylan album.

Sounds like a Weberman theory

If he had memorized farewell Angelina that would have been epic

Sorry birdistheword, but you cannot improve on New Morning. It is as good as it gets.