BOB DYLAN NEW MORNING C/D

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

middle-aged you is waiting at the cabin for young rebellious you to get over your shit and settle into cozy domestic adequacy!!! cmon!

yeah this is a top tier Bob album imo

middle-aged you is waiting at the cabin for young rebellious you to get over your shit and settle into cozy domestic adequacy!!! cmon!

― j., Thursday, October 17, 2019

with rainbot trout and kids who call you "Pa."

every time i put it on it's like "has this actually become my favorite bob dylan album?"

blood on the tracks is always #1, but new morning is in a constant epic battle with freewheelin' for that #2 spot.

great album, JWH through NM is my favorite Dylan era

post-Lebowski "The Man in Me" seems to have become one of his most ubiquitous and familiar tunes, much more so than the NM single "If Not for You"

Oh I didn't know it was in that movie

yeah it definitely big upped the profile of that song. It's in that stupid beer commercial w Jeff Bridges too

it is pretty great in lebowski

whenever i listen to new morning now, so many of the songs sound like he chose the demo versions — there are some much more fleshed out arrangements on Another Self Portrait. The title track with a big horn section, symphonic Sign On The Window, a rocked out Time Passes Slowly etc. Not necessarily better, just interesting.

tbh I think Lebowski was where I first heard The Man in Me, that album was not widely available in the 90s

def was my way in, was just coming back to post about how its pop-cultural status maybe overshadows what a great song and performance it is. the hoarse la-la-la voice, "TURN INTO SOME MACHINE," the ooooo backing vocals... dylan throwing it all out there.

symphonic Sign On The Window

Love this version. Might be my favorite thing on that box.

LOVE this album. Such cozy, Sunday morning warm-blanket vibes. Also Went to See the Gypsy is one of his best vocal performances.

that orchestral sign on the window is pretty crazy just for how they had to build it over dylan's totally off-kilter piano ... i'm sure the strings players were a little mystified at the overdub session haha.

My number one Dylan for sure. Planet Waves comes close though!

Those are two great Dylan albums, you have good taste!

Planet Waves is a slog

and the best song ("Nobody 'Cept You") was left off of it!

pw is the greatest, unless u are a stanking bar stool

planet waves is not a slog outside of “dirge”

“Three Angels” is really something. Just a perfect little song.

Wonderful, lovely record. Unsure if I've said that before here.

I just put this on and heard the locusts in "Day of the Locusts" for the first time!
Of all Dylan's records this one sounds like he had the most fun doing it. I love the congested casual sound too, just sounds like hitting tape and doing a rough mix on the fly. "Gypsy" is my favourite (some days it's my favourite Dylan song).

the part where he goes "saw the sun come up on that little minnesota tooooooowwn...that liiiitle miiinesooota tooown!" part gets me crunk if i've had a few..home pride!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, September 17, 2007 12:52 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Love this and the short little outro jam right after.

new morning just makes me happy in general

best bob drinking album actually...

^^still otm

In this concrete world full of souls
The angels play on their horns all day
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by
But does anyone hear the music they play
Does anyone even try?

I love the juxtaposition of “the wildest cat from Montana passes by in flash” followed by “then a lady in bright orange dress”

This album has his best piano playing. I love those runs after singing the chorus of "Day of the Locusts."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, September 17, 2007

HE DID IT IN LAS VEGAS AND HE CAN DO IT HERE

classic obv... I love the sequencing

I even like “when dogs run free”.. the whole album is so warm and welcoming that I’m like “yeah it’s ok go ahead have a goof, bob”

Great late summer evening album.

so happy just to be alive

the second time bob verges into the "la-la-la-la" vocals on "man in me" is so so beautiful.

I love the alternate version of “Time Passes Slowly” on Another Self Portrait, also has great la-la-la’s

Dylan in the studio recording "The Man In Me":

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

AWESOME

hell yeah

Love it