1958 & 1960 RECORDING SESSIONS
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The Home of Bob Dylan |
1960
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The Home Of Karen Wallace |
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June |
The
Purple Onion or Bastille |
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Autumn |
The Home Of Bob Dylan |
Next 1961
Concerts and Recording Sessions
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The
Home of Bob Dylan |
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Hibbing,
Minnesota |
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1958 |
1.
Hey
Little Richard
2.
Buzz,
Buzz, Buzz (Gray/Byrd)
3.
Jenny,
Jenny
(Johnson/Penniman/Crewe)
4. Blue Moon (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rogers)
1, 3 Bob Dylan (vocal & piano), John Bucklen
(vocal).
2 Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), John Bucklen
(vocal).
4 Bob Dylan and John Bucklen (vocals).
Notes.
All songs fragments.
The tape also contains
discussions between Dylan and Bucklen.
BobTalk:
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Dylan: |
This
is Little Richard...(fakes wild crowd noises
into microphone) ...Little Richard's
got a lot of expression. |
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Bucklen: |
You think singing is just jumping around and
screaming? |
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Dylan: |
You
gotta have some kind of expression. |
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Bucklen: |
Johnny Cash has got expression. |
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Dylan: |
There's
no expression. (sings in boring, slow and monotone voice): "I met her at a dance St. Paul Minnesota...
I walk the line, because you're mine, because you're mine..." |
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Bucklen: |
You're doing it wrong, you're just - |
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<end of broadcast tape segment> |
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Bucklen: |
What's the best kind of music? |
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Dylan: |
Rhythm
and Blues. |
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Bucklen: |
State your reason in no less that twenty-five
minutes. |
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Dylan: |
Ah,
Rhythm and Blues you see is something that you really can't quite explain see.
When you hear a song Rhythm and Blues - when you hear it's a good Rhythm and
Blues song, chills go up your spine... |
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Bucklen: |
Whoa-o-o! |
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Dylan: |
When
you hear a song like that. But when you hear a song like Johnny Cash, whadaya
wanna do? You wanna leave, you wanna, you - when you hear a song like some
good Rhythm and Blues song you wanna cry when you hear one of those
songs. |
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<end of broadcast tape segment> |
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after Jenny
Take A Ride: |
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Bucklen: |
Listen, man you gotta to do it a little bit
faster than that. I mean I'm trying to cut a fast record here, that's right
... |
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Dylan: |
I
can't help it. |
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Bucklen: |
I know it ain't slow but it's not fast enough
too. |
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Dylan: |
Whadaya
talking about, man, that's plenty fast! |
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Bucklen: |
No, it isn't. |
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Dylan: |
That'll
sell - that'll sell (clicks fingers) just like that - ten million in a week!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllll! (plays
first note on piano) |
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Bucklen: |
What are you trying to do man, coming in with
'weeelll' like that? I mean .... |
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Dylan: |
Well
that's for the new song and I'm starting another one. |
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<end of broadcast tape segment> |
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after Blue
Moon: |
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Dylan: |
Yeah,
ah, Ricky Nelson. Now Ricky Nelson's another one of these guys. See Ricky
Nelson, Ricky Nelson - |
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Bucklen: |
Ricky Nelson is out of the question. |
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Dylan: |
Well
he copies Elvis Presley! Yeaah, it's perfectly... |
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Bucklen: |
He can't do like Elvis Presley. |
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Dylan: |
Well
he can't sing at all, Ricky Nelson. So we may as well forget him. See I mean
- I mean, ya know when you hear music like The Diamonds. For instance
The Diamonds are really cool, they're out on the street really popular,
really record [?], you know. So they're popular big stars but where, where do
they get all the songs? You know they get all their songs, they get all their
songs from little groups. They copy all the little groups. Same thing with
Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley, who did he copy? He copied Clyde McPhatter, he
copied Little Richard, ... |
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Bucklen: |
Wait a minute, wait a minute! |
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Dylan: |
...he
copied the Drifters |
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Bucklen: |
Wait a minute, name, name, name four songs
that Elvis Presley's copied from those, from those little groups. |
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Dylan: |
He
copied all the Richard songs - |
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Bucklen: |
Like what? - |
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Dylan: |
"Rip
It Up", "Long Tall Sally", "Ready Teddy", err ...
what's the other one... |
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Bucklen: |
"Money Honey"? |
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Dylan: |
No,
"Money Honey" he copied from Clyde McPhatter. He copied "I Was
The One " - he copied that from the Coasters. He copied, ahhh, "I
Got A Woman" from Ray Charles. |
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Bucklen: |
Er, listen that song was written for him. |
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<end of last broadcast tape segment> |
Broadcast in
the program HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED, the final part of the BBC 2 ARENA TV series
called TALES OR ROCK 'N' ROLL, May 8, 1993.
Mono TV
recording, 5 minutes
Session info
updated 15 May 1994.
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The
Home Of Karen Wallace |
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St.
Paul, Minnesota |
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May
1960 |
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1. |
Gotta Travel On (Paul Clayton - Larry Ehrlich - David Lazar - Tom Six) |
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2. |
Doney Gal (trad.) |
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3. |
Roving Gambler (trad.) |
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4. |
Go Down You Murderers (trad.) |
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5. |
Bay Of Mexico (trad.) |
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6. |
The Two Sisters (trad.) |
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7. |
Go Way From My Window (John Jacob Niles) |
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8. |
This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) |
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9. |
Go Tell It To The Mountain (trad.) |
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10. |
Fare Thee Well (trad.) |
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11. |
Pastures Of Plenty (Woody Guthrie) |
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12. |
Saro Jane (trad.) |
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13. |
Take This Hammer (trad.) |
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14. |
Nobody Loves When You're Down And Out (J. Cox) |
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Great Historical Bum (Woody Guthrie) |
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16. |
Mary Ann (trad.) |
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17. |
Every Night When The Sun Goes In (trad.) |
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18. |
Sinner Man (trad.) |
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19. |
Delia
(traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan) |
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20. |
Wop De Alano (trad.) |
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21. |
Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet? (trad.) |
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Abner Young (?) |
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23. |
500 Miles (trad.) |
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24. |
Blues Yodel No. 8 (Jimmie Rodgers - G. Vaughan) |
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25. |
One-Eyed Jacks |
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26. |
Columbus Stockade Blues (Woody Guthrie) |
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27. |
Payday At Coal Creek (trad.) |
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar).
Note.
Tracks 9, 10, 19-21 not included on the circulating samples tape.
References.
If You Can Tell A
Bigger Lie - On The 1960 St Paul Tape – article by Paul
Loeber in Fourth Time Around #1 (1982).
The Continuing Story Of The St Paul 1960 Tape
– article by Gavin Diddle in Fourth
Time Around $2 (1983).
Private mono recording with many tracks cut, 30
minutes.
Session info updated 31 August 2001.
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The
Purple Onion or Bastille |
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St.
Paul, Minnesota |
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June
1960 |
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1. |
Go Down You Murderers (trad.) |
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Sinner Man
(trad.) |
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House Of The Risin' Sun (trad.) |
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4. |
Timber (trad.) |
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5. |
Jerry (trad.) |
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6. |
Another Man Done Gone (trad.) |
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7. |
Black Jack Blues (trad.) |
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8. |
Man Of Constant Sorrow (trad.) |
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9. |
One-Eyed Jacks |
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10. |
Greyhound Blues |
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11. |
Everytime I Hear The Spirit (?) |
Bob Dylan
(vocal & guitar).
Note. Date could be May 1960. There is no
circulating tape.
Session info
updated 31 August 2001.
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The
Home Of Bob Dylan |
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Minneapolis,
Minnesota |
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Autumn
1960 |
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1. |
Red Rosey Bush (trad.) |
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Johnny I Hardly Knew You (trad.) |
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Jesus Christ (Woody
Guthrie) |
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4. |
Streets Of Glory (trad.) |
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5. |
K.C. Moan (1927
Memphis Jug Band) |
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6. |
Blues Yodel No. 8 (Jimmie Rodgers - G. Vaughan) |
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7. |
I'm A Gambler
(trad.) |
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8. |
Talking Columbia (Woody Guthrie) |
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9. |
Talking Merchant Marine (Woody Guthrie) |
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10. |
Talking Hugh Brown |
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11. |
Talking Lobbyist (?) |
Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar).
BobTalk
Oh that
guy McKenzie. I like it. I'll do a couple of verses. Sing that whole file if
you want me to do it. This is a Woody Guthrie song. (after Red Rosey Bush).
Notes.
This recording has been circulating as the Minnesota Party Tape.
Suggested name for last song is also Talking
Inflation Blues.
Private mono recording, 30 minutes.
Session info updated 17 October 2001.
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