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Bob Dylan - Nashville 1969 and More... '2012

Nashville 1969 and More...
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Album name Nashville 1969 and More...
Country
Date 2012
Genre
Play time 01:12:44
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 167 / 399 MB
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Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Lay Lady Lay (3:28)
2. One More Night (2:49)
3. Blue Moon I (2:58)
4. Blue Moon II (2:37)
5. Ring of Fire (2:37)
6. Take A Message To Mary (2:34)
7. Living the Blues (2:37)
8. Take Me As I Am (2:57)
9. Let It Be Me (2:56)
10. I Forgot More Than Youll Ever Know (2:20)
11. Take A Message To Mary (2:43)
12. Blue Moon (2:25)
13. Folsom Prison Blues (3:30)
14. Ring of Fire (2:22)
15. eBay Sample (5:26)
16. CNN News Report (2:32)
17. Went To See the Gypsy (3:34)
18. If Not For You (2:28)
19. Sign On the Window (3:44)
20. If Not For You (4:20)
21. I Threw It All Away (2:32)
22. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (2:03)
23. Working On A Guru (3:37)
24. Tomorrow Is A Long Time (3:53)

 info(73:01): Lay Lady Lay, One More Night (Nashville Skyline sessions,
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, Tennessee, February 13th, 1969), Blue Moon 1, Blue
Moon 2, Ring Of Fire, Take A Message To Mary (Self Portrait sessions, Columbia
Studio A, Nashville, Tennessee, May 3rd, 1969), Living The Blues, Take Me As I
Am, Let It Be Me, I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know, Take A Message To
Mary, Blue Moon, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring Of Fire (Acetate source recorded at
Columbia Studio A, Nashville, Tennessee during the Self Portrait recording
sessions between April 24th and May 3rd, 1969), eBay Sample, CNN News Report,
Went To See The Gypsy, If Not For You 1 (Columbia Recording Studios, New York
City, NY, dates unknown), Sign On The Window, If Not For You 2, I Threw It All
Away, Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance, Working On A Guru (Columbia Studio B,
New York City, NY, May 1st, 1970 New Morning Sessions with George Harrison),
Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Studio E, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City,
NY, June 4th, 1970)

The origins of the the new Bob Dylan Nashville Sessions 1969 And More… on
Rattle Snake go back seventeen years when the “Lost Sony Warehouse
Tapes” were discovered in 1995. According to press releases at the time,
such as Reel Interest In ‘Lost’ Tapes, “The stash includes
about 4,000 tapes, between 20,000 and 40,000 songs recorded from the late
’40s to the early ’70s by about 500 artists. Enslin says there are
Elvis Presley Sun sessions here, Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline sessions,
unreleased Roy Orbison tunes, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams Sr., Duke Ellington,
Louis Armstrong and more. Everything was either recorded or produced at a
Columbia studio in Nashville. Most were not released, and the tapes were sold by
Columbia to an employee, for use as blank tape. Only they weren’t erased,
surviving to form an intriguing piece of history.”

And the liner notes state that “the reason these tapes have only appeared
now stands as testament to tardiness – reportedly producer Bob Johnston
left the studio tapes behind an a Nashville storage facility for a number of
years. Once the storage time had elapsed the company contacted Columbia records
to inquire as to whether they wished to extend the lease on their stay.
Apparently uninterested in putting up the cash towards keeping these tapes in
storage or, indeed, even buying them back, Columbia / Sony waived their rights
to owning the tapes. The company, realizing just what they had in their hands,
put the tapes up for auction. The tape, with a 27:05 minute recording time
featured several takes of ‘Lay Lady Lay’ & also a hitherto
unreleased track ‘Going To Chicago.”

Rattle Snake have assembled a collection with several brand new,
never-before-heard tracks from the tape along with other outtake material from
the same sessions to offer a complete anthology of relevant material. The sound
quality is uniformly excellent. Most are in crystal clear stereo, but the
acetates are in mono. As for the performances, this is the period when Dylan was
fascinated with current country & western music and amended his singing style as
the liner notes point out where it says, “the rich, thick, syrupy croon
was the latest twist in the measure that Dylan was implementing. This was
apparently down to his stopping cigarettes but several witnesses will attest to
him singing in the same style back in his small club dates of the very early
60’s before he decided to amend his style & ape the direct style of his
hero Woody Guthrie.”

Running in chronological order, the first two tracks date from the first
Nashville Skyline session in Nashville on February 13th, 1969. The opening track
is “Lay, Lady, Lay.” It was first released as an iTunes exclusive
with pre-order of Together Through Life in April, 2009 (and is no longer
available).

This take has a different, more “soulful,” vocal take than the
version found on Nashville Skyline. It also lacks the slide guitar so prominent
in the mix and the organ sounds is given a much more prominent place.

“One More Night” is similar to the commercial version in tempo,
melody and instrumentation. There are minor variations in the lyrics, lacks the
short guitar solo, and the first verse is repeated as the final. There is some
studio chatter before they start and at the end.

The next four tracks come from the same studio three months later featuring
several tunes that would appear on Self Portrait, released in June 1970.
“Blue Moon,” the pop standard from the 1930’s is given
several takes spread over two tracks. Both have false starts, but stay
relatively close to the commercial version found on the LP except that the
female backing singers and fiddle are not as prominent in the mix. 

“Ring Of Fire” is an unreleased cover of the Johnny Cash classic.
Dylan would of course re-record the song twenty-five years later for the film
Leaving Minnesota. “Take A Message To Mary,” another song that was
released on Self Portrait, has the same arrangement except is lacking the
opening female backing singers and is slightly slower in tempo. 

The next eight tracks, “Living The Blues” “Take Me As I
Am,” “Let It Be Me,” “I Forgot More Than You’ll
Ever Know,” “Take A Message To Mary,” “Blue Moon,”
“Folsom Prison Blues” and “Ring Of Fire” come from a
very good mono acetate source. The first six were included on Self Portrait and
these versions are the same except for minor variations in the edit, such as
count-ins. The last two tracks, two Cash covers, weren’t used on the
album. “Ring Of Fire” is the same take found earlier in the disc but
is edited by about ten seconds.

Two non-music tracks follow. The first, titled “eBay” sample, is a
five and a half minute introduction to the 27 minute outtake tape sold at
auction in September 2008. It is narrated by Bob Harris, a record producer for
Ampersand Records USA.” Under his voice the “Lay, Lady, Lay”
outtake on track one can be heard with Harris saying, “What we are
listening to here is one of the actual tapes used to record Bob Dylan’s
famous album Nashville Skyline Rag.” While quite fragmented, it is
interesting for the prolonged inclusion of “Going To Chicago” which
is otherwise unavailable. The actual track is a long and exciting blues jam.

It is followed by a CNN telecast broadcast about the legal battle between SONY
and Clark Enslin about the tapes. Each party claims ownership and state that
they are worth more than $100 million. 

 
The balance of the disc focus upon tracks recorded for New Morning, released in
October 1970. The sessions occurred in New York in May and June, 1970.
“Went To See The Gypsy” is a sparse runthrough of the New Morning
track. Taken at a slower tempo, it also lacks all instrumentation except for an
electric piano. “If Not For You 1” has the same lyrics as the
commercial version of the song. However, it is played in a slower arrangement
closer to country & western with emphasis upon fiddle and steel guitar. It is
far from the take on New Morning, but curiously sounds close to how he would
perform the song today. 

The next five tracks, “Sign On The Window,” “If Not For You
2,” “I Threw It All Away,” “Honey Just Allow Me One More
Chance” and “Working On A Guru” come from the May 1st session
in New York with George Harrison, a few weeks after the Beatles broke up, in
attendance. 

“If Not For You,” already recorded in at least two different
arrangements for New Morning, is given another workout. Dylan calls out to
Harrison before the song starts, and Harrison can be heard speaking in the right
channel in the middle of the song. The arrangement is very close to the one
utilized by Harrison on All Things Must Past, recorded later that summer. 

They follow with jams on two older tunes, “Throwing It All Away”
from Nashville Skyline and “Honey, Just Give Me One More Chance”
from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The latter is particularly funny since
Bob can’t seem to remember all the words and stumbles his way through the
piece.

“Working On A Guru” is a three and a half minute blues with Dylan on
vocals and Harrison on guitar. It’s an excellent quality outtake, even if
the song itself is interesting solely for historical reasons. The disc closes
with the infamous studio take “Tomorrow Is A Long Time,” a song he
first sang at his session for the Witmark publishing demos and released on The
Bootleg Series, Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964. 

This is another attempt at recording the song, but, for whatever reason, was
never released. 

Overall Nashville Sessions 1969 And More… is a nice mixture between new
and previously available material. It serves and an excellent document of
Dylan’s recording in the late sixties and early seventies, one of his
many important transitions. Rattle Snake’s mastering of the tapes,
packaging, liner notes and artwork are all superior and make this a tremendous
release.

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