Before The Hurricane Begins
Bob Dylan 1963
by
Olof Björner
A summary of recording &
concert activities,
releases, tapes & books.
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6 THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN'
Joan Baez helps establish Bob Dylan as the
leading folk song artist, he performs as guest or "surprise" artist
at a number of her concerts. The second important album, The Freewheelin'
Bob Dylan is at last completed and released. Dylan continues his almost
frantic song writing, this year sees no less than 34 new songs and also a
number of poems. The third album gets recorded rather quickly and is completed
by the end of October. It is released in January 1964.

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1, 2, 3
January |
Dylan is interviewed
for the English "performing arts" magazine "Scene". |
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2, 3
January |
Dylan
visits Rory McEwen and meets up with Eric von Schmidt, Richard Farina and
Ethan Signer. McEwen also takes Dylan to meet Robert Graves. |
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2, 3
January |
Possible
appearance at the Surbiton and Kingston Folk Club, Surbiton, Surrey. |
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Second
and last day of recording "Madhouse on Castle Street". |
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5 January |
Flies to Rome
to join Odetta and to try and locate Suze Rotolo. She has however just
returned to the US. He performs at a folk club in Rome and writes both
Girl From The North Country and Boots Of Spanish Leather. |
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12
January |
Back in
London Dylan, von Schmidt and Farina join Martin Carthy on stage at The
Troubador. |
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13
January |
BBC
broadcasts "Madhouse on Castle Street". |
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Dylan appear
as Blind Boy Grunt on some six tracks during the recording of the album Dick
Farina and Eric von Schmidt. |
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16
January |
Dylan
flies back to New York. |
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January |
Dylan
writes a poem called Go Away Bomb for Izzy Young who is compiling a
book on "the bomb". The project is never finished. |
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A couple
of new songs are recorded at the Broadside office. |
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January |
A new
song based on the old English tune Nottamun Town is performed at
Gerde's Folk City. It is called Masters Of War. |
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Some more
new songs are recorded at the Broadside office. |
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Dylan
appears on Skip Weshner's radio show. |
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February/March |
Nat
Hentoff interviews Dylan for the liner notes to the new album. Parts of the
interview later appear in the June 1963 Playboy magazine. |
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Recording
of the so called "Banjo Tape" in the basement of Gerde's Folk City. |
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March |
Dylan is
surprise guest at Oscar Brand's "World of Folk Music". He performs
two new songs Girl From The North Country and Only A Hobo. |
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April |
Release of
the promotional edition of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. |
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Town Hall
concert. The concert programme features a new Dylan poem My Life In A
Stolen Moment. This is the first concert in which Dylan performs his own
songs only. The concert is recorded by CBS for a possible live album. |
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What is
scheduled as the first recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin'
turns out to be the last Freewheelin' session. |
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Dylan
plays at The Bear in Chicago. |
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Studs Terkel
show on Chicago WFMT radio. Dylan performs seven songs, including four new:
Farewell, Bob Dylan's Dream, Who Killed Davey Moore and Boots
Of Spanish Leather. |
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12 May |
The
"Ed Sullivan Show" incident. Dylan refuses to appear when he is
instructed not to play Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues. |
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18 May |
Monterey
Folk Festival. Duet with Joan Baez on With God On Our Side. |
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27 May |
Release
of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. |
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May/June |
Stays
with Joan Baez in Carmel, California. |
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Returns
to Minneapolis and is as usual recorded by Tony Glover. |
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Dylan
attends a "Voters' registration rally" in Greenwood, Mississippi,
performing yet another new song Only A Pawn In Their Game. Part of
this performance is filmed and included in the film Don't Look Back. |
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Newport
Folk Festival. The festival programme contains a Dylan poem called For
Dave Glover. |
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Dylan
records two songs for the TV-program "Songs Of Freedom", broadcast on
WNEW. |
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Summer |
Dylan is
surprise guest on NBC's "Tonight" program. |
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August |
Release
of the single Blowin' In The Wind/Don't Think Twice, It's All Right |
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Dylan is
interviewed by Jack Smith from the radical newspaper "The National
Guardian". The interview is later reprinted in Broadside. |
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3 August |
Dylan is
guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Camden Music Fair in New Jersey. |
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1st
and 2nd recording sessions for The Times They Are A-Changin' |
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10 August |
Dylan is
guest performer at Joan Baez' concert in Asbury Park, New Jersey. |
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3rd
recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin' |
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13, 16 |
Dylan is
guest performer at Joan Baez' concerts in Connecticut and Massachusetts. |
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Dylan is
guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Forest Hills Stadium. |
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Late
August |
Sidney
Fields from New York Mirror interviews Dylan. |
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Dylan
performs at the Washington Civil Rights March. |
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9 October |
Dylan is
guest performer at Joan Baez' concert at the Hollywood Bowl. |
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Mid
October |
Michael
Iachetta from the New York Daily News interviews Dylan. |
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19
October |
Dylan
returns to solo concerts, this day at Ann Arbour Hill Auditorium. |
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4th
and 5th recording sessions for The Times They Are A-Changin' |
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23, 24
October |
Andrea
Svedburg from Newsweek interviews Dylan. |
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25
October |
Solo
concert at Philadelphia Town Hall. |
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Solo concert
at Carnegie Hall, New York. Audience includes Dylan's parents. This show is
also recorded by CBS for a possible live album. |
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6th
and last recording session for The Times They Are A-Changin' |
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2
November |
Solo
concert at Boston Jordan Hall. |
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3
November |
Solo
concert at Syracuse University Regent Theatre. |
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23
November |
Dylan
gives a reluctant concert somewhere in New York State, the day after the
assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
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30
November |
Solo
concert at Newark Mosque Theatre. |
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13
December |
Dylan
receives the Tom Paine award at a Bill of Rights dinner held by the Emergency
Civil Liberties Committee at the Grand ballroom of the hotel Americana in New
York. In a very uptight acceptance speech Dylan questions the validity of
what his wealthy and liberal audience believe they are fighting. He even says
that he can understand Kennedy's murderer. A few days later he sends a poem
called A Message from Bob Dylan to the Committee in which he is
offering to make up for any losses in donations that may be the result of
this unfortunate speech. |
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27
December |
Chicago
Orchestra Hall. Set includes the new song Restless Farewell. |
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4 January |
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14,15 January |
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19 January |
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24 January |
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February |
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8 February |
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February |
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Winter |
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March |
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March |
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March |
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April |
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April |
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12 April |
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24 April |
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25 April |
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26 April |
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May |
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May-June |
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6 July |
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17 July |
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Summer |
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26 July |
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26 July |
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26 July |
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27 July |
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28 July |
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30 July |
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6 August |
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7 August |
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12 August |
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August |
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17 August |
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28 August |
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October |
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23 October |
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24 October |
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26 October |
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31 October |
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December |
For details about these tapes please refer to the corresponding session
pages in Still On The Road.
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This album was recorded during no less than eight different sessions
from 24 April 1962 to 24 April 1963! Here's a summary of these sessions:
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TFBD[2] |
BIOG[3] |
BOOT[4] |
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24 April '62 |
Going To New Orleans |
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Sally
Gal |
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Rambling,
Gambling Willie |
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Corrina
Corrina |
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The
Death Of Emmett Till |
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Talking
John Birch Paranoid Blues |
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(I
Heard That) Lonesome Whistle |
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25 April '62 |
Rocks And Gravel |
3 |
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Let Me
Die In My Footsteps |
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Talking
Hava Negiliah Blues |
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Sally
Gal |
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Baby
Please Don't Go |
3 |
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