Bob Dylan (album)
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| Studio album by Bob Dylan | ||||
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
13 |
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running time |
36 min 54 sec |
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| occupation | Bob Dylan - voc , g , harm , | |||
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Studio (s) |
November 20 and 22, 1961 Columbia Recording Studio, New York |
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Bob Dylan is published in March 1962 debut album of Bob Dylan , that of John Hammond was produced and at Columbia Records has been published. The album mainly contains traditionals , some of which were rearranged by Dylan, but also the original composition Talkin 'New York and the Woody Guthrie piece Song to Woody, which Dylan has provided with new lyrics.
Origin and content
John Hammond met Bob Dylan by chance in September 1961 at a private meeting. At the time, he was making a name for himself in the New York folk scene in music venues. Hammond invited him to the studio and on September 29th offered him a recording deal with Columbia.
The debut album Bob Dylan was created in two recording sessions on November 20 and 22, 1961, in which Dylan accompanied himself with guitar and harmonica. Of the 17 songs, most of which were recorded in one take , 13 made it onto the album released the following March. Eleven tracks are folk songs that Dylan recorded or in a newly arranged version. Sometimes he used the possibility arrangements that he had "borrowed" from friendly folk musicians, so when Eric Von Schmidt's version of Baby, Let Me Follow You Down or Dave Van Ronk arrangement of House of the Risin 'Sun .
One of the two original compositions is the talking blues Talkin 'New York, in which Dylan describes his experiences as a newcomer to this metropolis. The ironic and sarcastic text, for example, with lines like “A lot of people don't have much food on their table, but they got a lot of forks' n 'knives and they gotta cut somethin'”, already shows the lyrical potential of the 20th century -year-old Dylan. The song to Woody, dedicated to Woody Guthrie , achieved greater fame , in which Dylan expresses his gratitude and admiration for his early role model and whose melody and harmonic sequence come from Guthrie's 1913 Massacre .
Track list
- You're No Good ( Jesse Fuller ) - 1:40
- Talkin 'New York (Bob Dylan) - 3:20
- In My Time of Dyin ' (Arr.Dylan) - 2:40
- Man of Constant Sorrow (Arr.Dylan) - 3:10
- Fixin 'to Die ( Bukka White ) - 2:22
- Pretty Peggy-O (Arr. Dylan) - 3:23
- Highway 51 Blues (C. Jones) - 2:52
- Gospel Plow (Arr.Dylan) - 1:47
- Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Rev. G. Davis; Arr. Eric Von Schmidt ) - 2:37
- House of the Risin 'Sun (Arr.Dave Van Ronk ) - 5:20
- Freight Train Blues (Arr.Dylan) - 2:18
- Song to Woody (lyrics, arr.Bob Dylan, melody Woody Guthrie ) - 2:42
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean ( Blind Lemon Jefferson ) - 2:43
literature
- Heinrich Detering : Bob Dylan. Chapter A song for Woody. ISBN 978-3-15-018662-6 .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ German: "A lot of people don't have much to eat on the table, but they have a lot of forks and knives and they need something to cut." Translation: Haefs, G .: Bob Dylan - Lyrics 1962–2001, ISBN 3-455-01591-3 , p. 17
