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Bob Dylan - The Minnesota Tapes (Wanted Man)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. (As I Go) Ramblin' Round 4:08
  2. Death Don't Have No Mercy 2:17
  3. It's Hard To Be Blind 3:06
  4. This Train Is Bound for Glory 2:53
  5. {harmonica solo} 3:54
  6. Talking Fish Blues 6:04
  7. Pastures of Plenty 6:08
  8. Railroad Bill 4:09
  9. Will the Circle Be Unbroken 1:02
  10. Man of Constant Sorrow 3:13
  11. Pretty Polly 5:32
  12. Railroad Boy 2:44
  13. James Alley Blues 3:38
  14. Why'd You Cut My Hair 1:43
  15. This Land Is Your Land 3:48
  16. Two Trains Running 3:07
  17. Wild Mountain Thyme 2:46
Volume 2
  1. Howdido 1:48
  2. Car Car 2:05
  3. Don't You Push Me Down 1:59
  4. Come See 2:08
  5. I Want It Now 2:59
  6. San Francisco Bay Blues 2:06
  7. A Long Time Growing 4:38
  8. Devilish Mary 1:42
  9. Candy Man 3:08
  10. Baby Please Don't Go 4:14
  11. Hard Times in New York Town 2:18
  12. Stealin' 2:15
  13. Poor Lazarus 4:24
  14. I Ain't Got No Home 2:08
  15. It's Hard To Be Blind 3:02
  16. Dink's Song 4:55
  17. Man of Constant Sorrow 3:34
  18. The Story of East Orange, N.J. 1:34
Volume 3
  1. Naomi Wise 3:03
  2. Wade in the Water 2:59
  3. I Was Young When I Left Home 5:56
  4. In the Evening 3:58
  5. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:58
  6. Sally Girl 1:44
  7. Gospel Plow 1:29
  8. Long John 6:23
  9. Cocaine 2:00
  10. VD Blues 2:12
  11. VD Waltz 0:50
  12. VD City 1:47
  13. VD Gunners Blues 2:37
  14. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 3:38
  15. Ramblin' Round 3:19
  16. Black Cross 5:07

Notes


Wanted Man Music 33/34/35

cd1, cd2: tracks 01-08:
"Minneapolis Party Tape" - Bonnie Beecher's apartment, Minneapolis, Minnesota - May 1961

cd2: tracks 09-18, cd3:
"Minneapolis Hotel Tape" - Bonnie Beecher's apartment, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 22 Dec 1961


Recorded by Tony Glover (of Koerner, Ray & Glover) during informal sessions where Dylan played for some friends, these Minnesota tapes offer us a more accurate - and in some ways, more entertaining - aural snapshot of Bob Dylan's early repertoire than anything Columbia would release. As a seeming antitheses to any of the spontaneity shown amongst friends, his debut album sounds barren by comparison.