Everything's going Bobular - the soundtrack to the Scorsese doc is out today (and it's great), then the film over two weekends at the end of the month, then the man himself in November.
The soundtrack has some terrific stuff - 'Maggie's Farm' at Newport in 1965, which apparently drove Pete Seegar so demented he picked up an axe, and ran amok in the crowd, slaughtering beatniks at every turn. Those are ELECTRIC INSTRUMENTS! GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY!
'It Takes a Lot To Laugh' appears in speeded up (in every sense) incarnation, and there's a lovely tune called I Was Young When I Left Home which I'd never heard of before.
There are alternate versions of two of my favourites - 'Don't Think Twice', and 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue' - not better than the originals, but sufficiently different to be fascinating in a way that many other artists' outtakes and studio floor sweepings are not. For one thing - Dylan is clearly still writing lyrics while recording early versions of some songs - Tombstone Blues and Baby Blue are both abbreviated compared to the versions we already know.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
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Talent that you can't make go away. He certainly could create some wonderful lyrics.
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