BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

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Matt Helgeson @MattHelgeson
@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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@MattHelgeson It was a great experience

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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

yeah i don't think it was weberman, but it was along those lines.

My favorite line on this album is "once had a sweetheart she was fine and good lookin / I'd sit in the kitchen while her mama was cookin."

Columbus OH's The Randys tell me their Christmas party set will incl that Brave Combo version of "Must Be Santa" Dylan exuberantly cloned--followed or preceded by "Winterlude"!

(I love both those)

haha m@tt this made me so happy

the man in me will hide sometimes, to keep from being seen

aw bob

Build me a cabin in Utah
Marry me a wife
catch rainbow trout
Have a bunch of kids
who call me “Pa”

That must be what it’s all about

So good. Brighton girls are like the moon.

Jennifer Warnes taking a decent MOR crack at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlQG1ctPypU

horn overdubs

thinkin bob might have made a mistake there

Heard this -- and Nashville Skyline, and Self Portrait -- for the first time two days ago. Of those three, I like New Morning the best (Self Portrait isn't that bad...some songs are hideous, some are meh, a few are brilliant, most of the arrangements are shit).

I like New Morning a lot, and love some of it, but like I said on the poll thread, I think it's a bit of a head fake. The title (and title track) suggest a level of assurance that the album doesn't actually have. It's like he's trying to will himself into some new phase that hasn't really come into focus yet. You can sense Blood on the Tracks coming a little way off but he's not to that level of self-awareness and renewed confidence yet. And "Father of Night" prefigures the born again years, too.

Good points.
Tarfumes, try Another Self-Portrait, or anyway the 15-track sampler on Spotify: some keepers, though the New Morning outtakes are understandablly that ("Sign On The Window" is more effective without those nice horns). Would have preferred "Working On A Guru"'s inclusion on NM, humorously/wistfully balancing the corn in "Sign", though other original-release tracks balance it better. "If Dogs Run Free" is the genius move there. Hit it Baby.

i don't see why blood on the tracks should be the standard

Not "the standard," it just to me sounds like a guy in mature control of what he's doing and how and why. New Morning is more tentative -- part of its charm, really.

New Morning, at least some of it, was salvaged from an aborted project he was doing with an author.

Archibald MacLeish, I think.

Yeah, but after Nashville Skyline and Self-Portrait, it worked as more of a How I Got This Way: the desperate little Van Morrison-esque outbursts, where he just wouldn't have a clue and it wouldn't ring true, if not for you; the disappointment of "Gypsy", the desolate self=pity of "Sign", the paranoid flight from "Locusts", even, back in the saftey zone, restlessness gradually becoming desperate once again: "Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream!" So, escapism of those other albums aside, here it's more like he admits, hell, he's (almost) tried everything else. The title song celebrates provisional, historical, get-it-while-you-can new mornings: "Auto-mo-beel, comin' into style"[ the bare dryness of some tracks goes with the bloomin' beauty of others; the randiness and rolling Crumb grooves of "One More Weekend," and "If Dogs Run Free". Dad's tales "Three Angels" and "Father of Night" (little did we know what these were symptoms of). Hiding coz he doesn't wanna turn into some machine is a plausible/characteristic enough alibi too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsx9YBV9EnM&list=RDBsx9YBV9EnM#t=9

I listened to "Father of Night" about 12 times on repeat a few evenings ago.

Cool. Do you know Manfred Mann's cover? Several posts of this, incl even longer live versions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ0VCr3Y8Pg

Other posts of the Persuasions cover as well.

woah!!!

http://recordmecca.com/news/bob-dylan-149-unknown-acetates-from-w-houston-street-studio/

Holy shit.

wow

not to be a total downer, but i expect most of this will not be terribly interesting (rough mixes mostly)? happy to be proven wrong though ...

are you suggesting i'm not terribly interested in self-portrait rough mixes??? :P

I'm more just surprised at the kind of shit people have stashed away, forgotten.

Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff
Plenty of places to hide things here if you wanna hide ’em bad enough

haaa

The "holy shit" is really at the find, as a life-long garage saler and trawler of junk bins. That "I've found the mother lode" moment. Clearly this was not a dollar-bin scenario but still, the idea that there is treasure out there not-yet-found is pretty awesome.

thing this, as the post notes, columbia/sony probably already has masters of all this stuff, from which the stuff on "another self portrait" was selected.

yeah and even the stuff he mentions as unreleased is out there in various forms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6r1i-aNWbg
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/08/15/bob-dylan-tomorrow-is-a-long-time-new-morning-outtake-1970/
still I'd be interested to see if anything cool turns up as he goes through it all.

but yeah, truly amazing that this stuff was just sitting around!

so much lovely guitar playing on this record

even the acoustic guitars go figure

Dave Marsh calls “Went to See the Gypsy” an “obvious Elvis parable” in those old RS Record Guides (Big Red and Bog Blue); that was the only time I heard that idea mentioned until the liner notes of the Bootleg Series set, where Greil Marcus calls it, “...for reasons I have never grasped the dominant reading of the song.”

I’ll let those krusty rock-krit guys duke it out... though I suppose I fall more on GM’s side. What makes it an “obvious” Elvis parable, the reference to Las Vegas? Did Elvis famously visit Minnesota and Dylan paid him a visit, or
Something?

(That was meant to say “Big Blue,” but “Bog Blue” is more appropriate... my copy looks like it was fished out of a bog. And Marsh’s write-ups tend to be Bog Basic. He only gives “Planet Waves” two stars! I really don’t think that guy listened very deeply to most of the albums he wrote up... except maybe in the case of the Who, his personal Godhead.)

maybe Bob's happiest record

love the vibe of this record, every time i put it on it's like "has this actually become my favorite bob dylan album?" in overview too many of the songs are kinda forgettable, and bob plays piano like he started taking lessons last month, but it's got this great hazy/drunk/loose quality that i really love. "man in me" is an all-timer and i get "day of the locusts" stuck in my head all the time.

I love how he plays piano, it's primitive but it works, he has a cool rhythmic momentum, he plays piano like drums

love New Morning to death, even little throwaway lines stick with me so much

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

There’s a life insurance commercial or something in heavy rotation right now that prominently uses “The Man in Me.”

I love this album.

Hmmm I never ever managed to get into that one but then again I havent put it on in 15 years so maybe middle-aged me would warm up to it