The Minneapolis Party Tape [Import]

BOB DYLAN capté « live » chez une amie à Minneapolis au début de sa carrière, en 1961 ! Le tout remasterisé.

By May 1961 Dylan had been 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 to Hibbing, Minnesota to spend some time with his parents and school friends. While en route to Hibbing, Bob stopped in Minneapolis to visit the friends he had made during his time at college there. Whenever he returned, Bob would crash in the apartment of Bonnie 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 friends 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 three of these May sessions. Whilst the tape illustrate 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, they capture the birth of an icon, and make for essential listening for music fans everywhere. TRACK LIST 1 Ramblin' Round 2 Death Don't Have No Mercy 3 It's Hard To Be Blind 4 This Train (Is Bound For Glory) 5 Harmonica solo 6 Talking Fish 7 Pastures Of Plenty 8 This Land Is Your Land 9 Two Trains Runnin 10 Wild Mountain Thyme 11 Howdido 12 Car, Car (Riding In My Car) 13 Don't Push Me Down 14 Come See 15 I Want My Milk 16 San Francisco Bay Blues 17 A Long Time A-Growin 18 Devilish Mary 19 Railroad Bill 20 Will The Circle Be Unbroken 21 Man Of Constant Sorrow 22 Pretty Polly 23 Railroad Boy 24 James Alley Blues 25 Bonnie, Why'd You Cut My Hair?