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Audio: 54 Years Ago Bob Dylan Arrives In New York – ‘Talkin’ New York,’ ‘Spanish Harlem Incident’ & More

January 24, 2015audio, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan live, Music, streaming musicBob Dylan, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Freeze Out, Hard Times In New York, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, January 24 1961, music, She Belongs To Me, Song To Woody, Spanish Harlem Incident, streaming musicMichael Goldberg

Fifty-four years ago, on January 24, 1961, Bob Dylan arrived in New York, where within a few months he would not only get a rave review in the New York Times and meet the legendary record man and producer, John Hammond, but would be signed by Hammond to Columbia Records and by the end of the year he’d record his first album, Bob Dylan.

Dylan recorded his first six albums in New York, and the city was his base of operations from ’61 into ’66.

I thought I’d pull together some of Bob’s recordings that are either about or take place in New York in some way, or were recorded in New York.

“Talkin New York” live at Town Hall, April 12, 1963:

“Song To Woody”:

“Hard Times In New York” recorded by Cynthia Gooding, March 11, 1962:

“Spanish Harlem Incident,” alternate take:

“Ballad In Plain D,” alternate take 2 (partial):

“She Belongs To Me,” Free Trade Hall, Manchester, May 7, 1965:

“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Free Trade Hall, Manchester, May 7, 1965:

“Freeze Out 1,” (“Visions Of Johanna” outtake):

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“Love Minus Zero/ No Limit” and “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” and “From A Buick 6” (alternate takes):

–A Days Of The Crazy-Wild blog post —

Audio: My Imagined Bob Dylan Album

January 7, 2014audio, Music, news, streaming musicBob Dylan, bootleg, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Desolation Row, Freeze Out, music, Roll On John, streaming musicMichael Goldberg

Bob Dylan has released at least three of the best rock albums. Period.

Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding are classics.

And his earlier albums, particularly Bringing It All Back Home, are exceptional too.

But Dylan has recorded many songs, and many versions of songs, that have not been officially released, or have only turned up decades later on the official bootleg series releases.

So sometimes I think about the albums that might have been.

Here’s one of my imagined Dylan albums, comprised entirely of tracks that didn’t make it onto official studio albums.

1 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window:

2 Roll On John (1962)

3 Freeze Out (later titled “Visions of Johanna,” 1966):
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4 She’s Your Lover Now (solo piano version, 1966):

5 Let Me Die In My Footsteps (outtake, early ’60s):

6 She Belongs To Me (outtake, 1965)

7 I’ll Keep It With Mine (Blonde On Blonde rehearsal, 1966)

8 Blind Willie McTell (1983):

9 Desolation Row (Outtake, 1965):

10 On A Rainy Afternoon (hotel room jam, 1966):

-– A Days of the Crazy-Wild blog post: sounds, visuals and/or news –-

Listen: Deep Into Bob Dylan’s “Visions Of Johanna”

December 6, 2013Art, live, Music, streaming musicBlonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Freeze Out, live, music, streaming music, studio, Visions of JohannaMichael Goldberg

“Visions Of Johanna” is an endlessly fascinating song. It’s a song that reveals itself slowly, over the years. And then the light changes and you hear it totally different.

I’ve gathered together two outtakes from when Dylan was calling the song “Freeze Out,” a bunch of live recordings from the 1966 tour of Australia and Europe, and the official version released on “Blonde On Blonde.”

Enjoy.

“Freeze Out 1” (VOJ outtake)