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BOB DYLAN - TEMPEST

COLLECTION OF TEN NEW BOB DYLAN SONGS MARKS HIS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AS A RECORDING ARTIST

Bob Dylan's new studio album, Tempest, will be released on 10th September, 2012. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the 50th Anniversary of his eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962.

Featuring some of his darkest, most reflective work to date. Including the gospel-influenced "Pay in Blood" and the 14-minute title track which tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic, Tempest finds Dylan tackling the subject of mortality more than ever, while his sharp sense of humor is still scattered throughout.

The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35th studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009's Together Through Life.

Bob Dylan's four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist.

Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while "Love and Theft" continued Dylan's Platinum streak.

Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist's most popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the artist's first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one million copies.

TRACKLISTING:
Duquesne Whistle - Soon After Midnight - Narrow Way - Long and Wasted Years - Pay In Blood - Scarlet Town - Early Roman Kings - Tin Angel - Tempest - Roll On John

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By May 1961 Bob Dylan had been living in New York and working the Greenwich Village cafés and folk clubs for nearly five months. With the harsh winter now gone, Dylan decided it was time to return north to Hibbing, Minnesota to spend some time with his parents. While en route, Bob stopped off in Minneapolis to visit some of the friends he had made during his time at college there. This would be the first of several visits to Minneapolis and a pattern would soon emerge.

Whenever he returned, Bob would crash in the apartment of Bonnie Jean Beecher, a girl he had dated while in college, and Dylan would thereafter jokingly refer to her apartment as either the "Beecher Hotel" or "Minneapolis Hotel". These forays to Minneapolis enabled Dylan to use a friend's tape recorder to capture what progress he had made musically during his time in New York. Eager to demonstrate how much he had learned while living in the Big Apple, he performed on several occasions for his old friends, and the so-called "Minnesota Party Tape" is the combined result of either two or, more probably, three of these May sessions.

Whilst this tape illustrates how much Dylan had progressed in the four months since he left Minneapolis for New York, his performances still consisted of blues, folk and Guthrie numbers with only the final song, 'Bonnie, Why'd You Cut My Hair?', being an eccentric Dylan original. As one of the earliest documents of Dylan's musicianship however it captures the birth of an icon, and thus provides essential listening for everyone with even a hint of interest in the genesis of Bob Dylan - and of popular music more generally.

Ramblin' Round / Death Don't Have No Mercy / It's Hard to Be Blind / This Train (Is Bound For Glory) / Harmonica solo / Talking Fish / Pastures of Plenty / This Land Is Your Land / Two Trains Runnin' / Wild Mountain Thyme / Howdido / Car, Car (Riding In My Car) / Don't Push Me Down / Come See / I Want My Milk / San Francisco Bay Blues / A Long Time A-Growin' / Devilish Mary / Railroad Bill / Will the Circle Be Unbroken / Man of Constant Sorrow / Pretty Polly / Railroad Boy / James Alley Blues / Bonnie, Why'd You Cut My Hair?
Recorded at the home of Bonnie Beecher in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1961 RUN TIME: 79 MINS APPROX.

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This is the first Dylan recording made at the New York City folk music club called The Gaslight Café and represents one of the first ever recorded Dylan concerts. And it marks the first known recorded concert of Dylan performing an original song.

Thanks to the cooperation of the Gaslight Café owners and the management skills of Dave Van Ronk's wife, Terri Thal; these songs were professionally recorded on reel tape from a patch of the house PA. This resulted in incredible sound quality that can stand proudly alongside recordings produced by today's digital equipment.

He Was a Friend Of Mine / Riding in My Car / Man On The Street / Song to Woody / Talkin' Bear Mountain Massacre / Pretty Polly / The Story of East Orange

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On December 22, 1961, just a month following completion of his self-titled Columbia debut LP, Bob Dylan visited the Minneapolis apartment of his friend Bonnie Beecher, where he recorded some 26 songs to reel-to-reel tape.
Known previously by the somewhat confusing catch-all Minnesota Hotel Tape, this material remains one of the seminal sessions of Dylan's career, official or otherwise.
Bonnie Beecher's Apartment assembles the Minnesota Hotel Tape in full and this is essential listening for any serious Dylan enthusiast, offering an invaluable glimpse into his development as an artist with excellent sound quality.

Disc 1
Baby Please Don't Go / Man Of Constant Sorrow / Candy Man / Hard Time In New York Town / I Ain't Got No Home / I Was young When I Left Home / Stealin' / Poor Lazarus / It's Hard To Be Blind / In The Evening / Naomi Wise / Wade In The Water / Dink's Song

Disc 2
Sally Girl / Baby Let Me Follow You Down / Cocaine / Gospel Plow (Hold On) / Long John / Black Cross / See That My Grave Is Kept Clean / Ramblin' Around / VD Waltz / VD Blues / VD City / VD Gunner's Blues

BOB DYLAN'S GREENWICH VILLAGE
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DISC ONE
1. NEW YORK CITY - Pete Seeger 2. PRETTY BOY FLOYD - Woody Guthrie 3. RAMBLIN', GAMBLIN' MAN - Cisco Houston 4. WHEN FIRST UNTO THIS COUNTRY - New Lost City Ramblers 5. LITTLE MAGGIE - Barbara Dane 6. CRAWLING KING SNAKE - John Lee Hooker 7. HOWL -Allen Ginsberg 8. STEP IT UP AND GO - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 9. PALLET ON THE FLOOR - Brownie McGhee 10. OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE - Elizabeth Cotten 11. DARLING COREY - The Weavers 12. THE BANANA BOAT SONG - The Tarriers 13. PRETTY POLLY - Erik Darling 14. NO MORE CANE ON THE BRAZOS - Odetta 15. RED WING - Oscar Brand 16. JACK OF DIAMONDS - Brother John Sellers 17. BARBARA ALLEN - Ed McCurdy 18. DUNCAN AND BRADY - Dave Van Ronk 19. RIO GRANDE - The Foc'sle Singers 20. WHO'S GONNA BUY YOU RIBBONS (WHEN I'M GONE) - Paul Clayton 21. THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW - Lenny Bruce BONUS TRACKS: 22. THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE - Jose Feliciano 23. I AIN'T MARCHING ANYMORE - Phil Ochs 24. TURN, TURN, TURN - Judy Collins 25. THE SOUND OF SILENCE - Simon and Garfunkel
DISC TWO
1. NEW YORK CITY - Lead Belly 2. COCAINE BLUES- Ramblin' Jack Elliott 3. BUFFALO BOY - Theodore Bikel 4. THE PARTING GLASS - Clancy Brothers 5. STATE OF THE NATION - Kenneth Patchen 6. FIXIN' TO DIE - Bukka White 7. BABY PLEASE DON'T GO - Big Joe Williams 8. YOU WILL NEED ME - Lonnie Johnson 9. THE WAGONER'S LAD - Kossoy Sisters 10. GO 'WAY FROM MY WINDOW - John Jacob Niles 11. DRIVING WHEEL - Roosevelt Skyes 12. ON THE ROAD - Jack Kerouac 13. SILVER DAGGER - Joan Baez 14. WAYFARING STRANGER - Bob Gibson 15. NOTTAMUN TOWN - Jean Ritchie 16. DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY - Rev. Gary Davis 17. IN MY TIME OF DYING - Josh White 18. UNCLOUDY DAY - Staple Singers 19. ROCKS AND GRAVEL - Harry Belafonte 20. MOJO HAND - Lightnin' Hopkins 21. NEW YORK GIRLS - Kingston Trio BONUS TRACKS: 22. LITTLE WHEEL SPIN AND SPIN - Buffy Sainte-Marie 23. RAMBLIN' BOY - Tom Paxton 24. ROLL ON BUDDY - The Greenbriar Boys 25. IF I HAD A HAMMER - Peter, Paul and Mary

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."

Also due for release on 18th October 2010, is 'The Original Mono Recordings'.

It 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.

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Released the same day, to accompany the Mono box, is a single CD sampler:

'The Best Of The Original Mono Recordings'

It's the only way to get the mono mix of 'Positively 4th Street'.

Song to Woody / Blowin' in The Wind / The Times They Are A-Changin' / Chimes of Freedom / It Ain't Me Babe / Subterranean Homesick Blues / Mr. Tambourine Man / Like a Rolling Stone / Tombstone Blues / Positively 4th Street / Rainy Day Women #'s 12 & 35 / Just Like a Woman / I Want You / I'll Be Your Baby Tonight / All Along The Watchtower

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Released on the 27th September 2010, is 'The Essential Bob Dylan' 2CD.

This is an updated collection to include tracks from his latest albums.

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