Bob Dylan
"Omie Wise"
from the "Minnesota Hotel Tape"
recorded by Tony Glover, December 22, 1961
Minneapolis, MN
Here's a surprisingly undercirculated Dylan track for you: the uncut version of "Omie Wise" (aka "Naomi Wise" and "Deep Waters"), from the venerable "Minnesota Hotel Tape," recorded, as the Dylan legend has it, in Bonnie Beecher's Minneapolis apartment by Tony Glover. (And the legend probably has its facts straight.)
Most currently circulating verions of the Minnesota Hotel Tape are sourced to a relatively low-gen copy of the source recording; the most common go back to the Wanted Man "Minnesota Tapes" commercial boot or to the even lower-gen sourced Dylantree fan project "Early Dylan.
(What's Dr. Mike up go these days, anyway?) All of the later commercial boots have been knockoffs of one or the other of these two sources. The sound quality is very good to excellent -- but the immediate source recording had developed a few minor defects over the decades, most conspicuously a long dropout in the last verse of "Omie Wise," losing aa line of Dylan's vocals. There were some repaired versions of "Early Dylan" floating around, but somehow the only versions to be torrented or treed simply closed the gap without patching in the missing audio.
There have been undamaged versions of the track around, somewhat higher gen, generally dating back to the vinyl era, and very hard to find without wear and tear to the grooves. About a month ago, JTT uploaded elsewhere a very clean vinyl transfer of an early LP boot which included a full version of the track.
So here you have it: a not-quite-lost, but hard to turn up, classic Dylan track from 1961. There's nothing revelatory in the previously missing vocals, but it's just nice to have the whole thing around again. My vinyl copy was awfully ragged.
Relevant excerpts from JTT's notes follow. Torrent also includes LP cover scan modified to fit CD cases, also rom the original upload.
BOB DYLAN - "Talkin' Bear Mountain Massacre Picnic Blues" (Vinyl Transfer, JTT)
Bob Dylan
"Talkin' Bear Mountain Massacre Picnic Blues"
TMQ (Translucent Red/Orange Vinyl)
Labels: Yellow with Large 1 and 2 in Black
Matrix: BD 502 A/B 71-157(6) M
1971 (First Pressing)
SOURCE: Near Mint LP (Played only twice previously) > Technics SL-110/SME 3009 Series 111/Goldring G1010 >
Onkyo P-304 Pre Amp > Soundforge PRO 10b > FLAC Level 6 Align on sector boundaries
Minimal Audio Restoration between tracks only
Artwork for Polythene Envelope to represent Mini LP Scanned from LP Sleeve
01. Omie Wise