Hard Times In New York Town Wayfaring Stranger A Long Time Man Feel Bad Lonesome Whistle Blues Worried Blues Baby Of Mine Instrumental Baby Let Me Follow You Down Fixin' To Die San Francisco Bay Blues You're No Good House Of The Risin' Sun Instrumental This Land Is Your Land Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms Bells Of Rhymney Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies Instrumental Instrumental Highway 51 This Land Is Your Land |
This tape was recorded in the home of Eve and Mac MacKenzie, friends of
Dylan during his early years in New York City. The tape is fragmentary and
often muddled. I believe the story goes that Anthony Scaduto managed to
surreptitiously record as much of the tape as he could while visiting with
the MacKenzie's during research for his authorized biography of Bob Dylan.
As the story goes, he had to hide his portable tape recordeder everytime
someone entered the room.
The performances, what can be heard of them, seem to be about average for Dylan circa 1961. Some of the songs wound up being recorded for the first album, but overall the material here isn't too interesting. The Second MacKenzie tape of 1963 is much more interesting. For completists only. CDs:
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