Tiens, des news sur de la vieillerie. Dylan se la joue coffret Beatles avec une réédition mono, plus un nouveau volume des bootleg séries, plutôt intéressant je pense...
Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos will be released on Tuesday, October 19th, in conjunction with the re-release of the artist's first eight long-playing albums in a box set titled Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings. Both sets have been long sought-after by collectors and fans worldwide, with The Witmark Demos seeing their first commercial release nearly five decades after they were first recorded, and The Original Mono Recordings returning to the marketplace for the first time ever on CD as well as on fully analogue 180-gram vinyl.
The Witmark Demos features 47 Bob Dylan songs recorded by the artist accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, harmonica and occasionally piano on 2 CD or 4 LP 180-gram vinyl. All of these songs were written – and their subsequent demos recorded – before Bob Dylan turned 24 years old.
Among the many gems are 15 Bob Dylan songs that were recorded by the artist only for these sessions, and which have never been officially released to the public until now. These include the plaintive "Ballad For A Friend," the civil rights era-inspired "Long Ago, Far Away" and "The Death Of Emmett Till," and the poignant "Guess I'm Doing Fine."
The Original Mono Recordings is comprised of Bob Dylan's first eight long-playing albums, painstakingly reproduced from their first generation monaural mixes as the artist intended them to be heard. These eight albums – spanning the artist's self-titled debut in March 1962, through John Wesley Harding released on December 27, 1967 – are universally regarded as some of the most important works in the history of recorded music.
Together with The Witmark Demos, they provide the public with a wide-ranging view of Bob Dylan's work during the 1960s, and chronicle his amazing evolution from fledgling songwriter to one of the world's most inventive and singular recording artists.
Disc 1:
1. Man On The Street (Fragment) 2. Hard Times In New York Town 3. Poor Boy Blues 4. Ballad For A Friend 5. Rambling, Gambling Willie 6. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues 7. Standing On The Highway 8. Man On The Street 9. Blowin’ In The Wind 10. Long Ago, Far Away 11. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 12. Tomorrow Is A Long Time 13. The Death of Emmett Till 14. Let Me Die In My Footsteps 15. Ballad Of Hollis Brown 16. Quit Your Low Down Ways 17. Baby, I’m In The Mood For You 18. Bound To Lose, Bound To Win 19. All Over You 20. I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day 21. Long Time Gone 22. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues 23. Masters Of War 24. Oxford Town 25. Farewell
Disc 2:
1. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right 2. Walkin’ Down The Line 3. I Shall Be Free 4. Bob Dylan’s Blues 5. Bob Dylan’s Dream 6. Boots Of Spanish Leather 7. Walls of Red Wing 8. Girl From The North Country 9. Seven Curses 10. Hero Blues 11. Whatcha Gonna Do? 12. Gypsy Lou 13. Ain’t Gonna Grieve 14. John Brown 15. Only A Hobo 16. When The Ship Comes In 17. The Times They Are A-Changin’ 18. Paths Of Victory 19. Guess I’m Doing Fine 20. Baby Let Me Follow You Down 21. Mama, You Been On My Mind 22. Mr. Tambourine Man 23. I’ll Keep It With Mine
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