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Audio: Bob Dylan At The Gaslight, Sept. 1961 – Full Set – ‘Song To Woody,’ ‘Pretty Polly’ & More

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This weekend I’ve been celebrating the 54th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York on January 24, 1961.

Toward the end of that year, after he’d been gigging around, after he’d met John Hammond and been signed to Columbia Records, but prior to recording his first album, on September 6, 1961, Bob Dylan performed at the Gaslight in New York.

His set, which included an appearance by Dave Van Ronk playing guitar and singing harmony vocals on “Car, Car,” was recorded on a reel-to-reel and you can hear it right now.

Some of these songs appeared on the first official Bootleg series set. Others have yet to be officially released.

The order of the songs has apparently been rearranged by whoever put up this YouTube clip.

Set List (apparently the songs have been ordered differently than when they were performed).

He Was A Friend Of Mine
Car, Car
Man On The Street
Song To Woody
Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Pretty Polly

This is the correct order of the set according to www.BobDylan.com:

Man On The Street
He Was A Friend Of Mine
Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Song To Woody
Pretty Polly
Car, Car

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Audio: Bob Dylan Releases His Debut Album – March 19, 1962

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Bob Dylan, 1962, via Huffington Post.

Bob Dylan’s remarkable debut album was released on March 19, 1962 — 52 years ago.

I use that word remarkable because Dylan was just 20 years old at the time, and yet his voice sounds like it comes from a man more than twice his age. As they say, a wise soul in a young body.

Although there are only two original compositions on the album (“Song to Woody,” and “Talkin’ New York”), Dylan makes each of the cover songs his own.

The songs on this album sound like they could come from none other than Bob Dylan.

In addition to the 13 songs that are on the album, Dylan recorded four others that didn’t make the cut.

I’ve included three of those recordings – “House Carpenter,” “He Was a Friend of Mine” and ” “Man on the Street” — below, plus an earlier recording of the fourth song, “Ramblin’ Blues (Ramblin Round).”

I’ve also included one of my favorite songs on the album, ”

“House Carpenter”:

House Carpenter by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“He Was A Friend of Mine”:

House Carpenter by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“Man on the Street” outtake:

Man on the Street by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“Ramblin’ Blues (Ramblin Round)” — a version of this song was cut for Bob Dylan’s debut album. This version is from the “Minnesota Tapes”:

Ramblin' Blues (Ramblin Round) by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

“Baby, Let Me Follow You Down”:

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

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