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Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall

Band: Bob Dylan Title: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall Rating: Release Date: 30 March, 2004 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: The Times They Are A-Changin' 2: Spanish Harlem Incident 3: Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues 4: To Ramona 5: Who Killed Davey Moore? 6: Gates Of Eden 7: If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Got To Stay All Night) 8: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 9: I Don't Believe You 10: Mr. Tamborine Man 11: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 12: Talkin' World War III Blues 13: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 14: The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 15: Mama, You Been On My Mind - with Joan Baez 16: Silver Dagger - with Joan Baez 17: With God On Our Side - with Joan Baez 18: It Ain't Me, Babe - with Joan Baez 19: All I Really Want To Do

Editoral Review Which makes the jump back to a younger Dylan in this set all the more jarring. The brooding Bob Dylan of the 1966 live collection in the Dylan bootleg series gave way to an even more hooded character on the second live bootleg album from 1974. Here is Dylan as an eager-to-please 23 year old with nothing between him and his worshippers but a guitar, a harmonica, and, for four songs, his lover, Joan Baez. In marked contrast to the acerbic electric Dylan of the mid-'60s and the tight-lipped living legend of the mid-'70s, here is Dylan as entertainer. Joking and bantering with the crowd, Dylan deals up some favorites ("The Times They Are A-Changin'," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"), but is already shedding his earnest folkie persona; imagine another artist a mere two years into his career declining to perform a hit on the scale of "Blowin' in the Wind. " But Dylan was moving fast. Having completed the last all-acoustic collection of his early years three months before the Philharmonic concert, he would record the half-electric/half-acoustic Bringing It All Back Home three months later. Three of the four acoustic songs from that album are presented here, as are a handful of then-unreleased songs, including "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" (which was soon given a rock arrangement), and a protest-period remnant, "Who Killed Davey Moore?" Had Concert at the Philharmonic Hall appeared the year it was recorded, it would been seen as a respite for folk fans to catch their collective breath before Dylan reappeared in his rock & roll Rimbaud guise. Heard for the first time decades later, it's simply a testament of his gifts as a showman and songwriter. --Steven Stolder .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs