Entire tape very highly recommended to anyone interested in Dylan. Some of the very best live early material available.
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The Death of Emmett Till Stealin Hiram Hubbard Blowin in the Wind Rocks and Gravel Quit Your Lowdown Ways He Was a Friend of Mine Let Me Die in My Footsteps Two Trains a Runnin Ramblin on My Mind Blues Yodel No 8 (Muleskinner Blues) |
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This is wonderful stuff. For years this tape was thought to be part of
the Gaslight Tapes, but recently the
consensus has been that this is from the Finjan Club in Montreal. The
sound is certainly excellent and the performances all classic early
Dylan. Emmett Till appears again, unfortunately, but the others
are much better: Let Me Die in My Footsteps, rarely heard; Rocks
and Gravel, an excellent live version; Quit Your Lowdown Ways,
another rarity; Robert Johnson's Ramblin' On My Mind, which
sounds a lot like Corrina, Corrina; and my favorite song on the
tape - Hiram Hubbard. I'm not sure why I like this song so much
(which I'm sure isn't an original composition), but I think it's just
the genre that appeals to me so much. It seems to fit in with that
group of songs about falsly condemmed men destroyed not so much for any
specific crime but for the general crime of rebelling against
authority, songs such as Poor Lazarus and Midnight Special
among others. Also, the structure is simple and compelling, with each
chorus seeming to reaffirm the belief that a horrible wrong has been
done and there's nothing anyone can do about it except to repeat over
and over "Hiram Hubbard wasn't guilty". This would have been
a great song for Roger McGuinn and The Byrds.
Entire tape very highly recommended to anyone interested in Dylan. Some of the very best live early material available. |
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