Gammelt nyt fra Dylan
25. august 2010 //
Selv om tanken er nærliggende, kommer man ikke til at kunne høre ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’, mens man går rundt på Statens Museum for Kunst, når de fra den 4. september åbner dørene for en udstilling af nymalede Bob Dylan-malerier.
Samtidig kommer nyheden tikkende om endnu en plade i den lange serie af officielle Dylan-outtakes. Rygterne har længe verseret i Dylanolog-land, men i følge Rolling Stone skulle det nu være sikkert og vist, at Dylan 19. oktober udsender det niende afsnit af The Bootleg Series.
Dobbeltcd-sættet vil indeholde de legendariske og sagnomspundne Witmark-sessions. 47 sange udført af Dylan selv mellem 1962 og 64 som en slags visitkort til hans daværende musikforlag. Altså nærmest uropførelser af sange som ‘Blowing In The Wind’ og ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’. Plus det løse. Og som man kan se af illustrationen til dette indlæg er indspilningerne ingen hemmelighed for piratpladesamlere.
I samme måned udsendes så de original mono-mix af Dylans otte første lp’er. Sættet bliver med det helt store ekstraudstyrs-udtræk og kommer ikke som cd. Kun på vinyl.
Derimod meldes der ikke om nyt fra Dylan, men for mange er gammelt nyt fra ham jo lig med godt nyt…
Torben and others – bobdylan.com skrev også en nyhed i går om dette – og her fremgår det tydeligt, at mono udgivelsen også kommer på CD:
Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos will be released on Tuesday, October 19th, in conjunction with the re-release of the artist’s first eight long-playing albums in a box set titled Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings. Both sets have been long sought-after by collectors and fans worldwide, with The Witmark Demos seeing their first commercial release nearly five decades after they were first recorded, and The Original Mono Recordings returning to the marketplace for the first time ever on CD as well as on fully analogue 180-gram vinyl. Both are now available for pre-sale with an exclusive t-shirt and limited edition 18×24″ Bob Dylan poster at SonyMusicDigital.com/bobdylan. You can also pre-order the CD or vinyl sets at Amazon.
og de skrev forøvrigt også:
The Witmark Demos features 47 Bob Dylan songs recorded by the artist accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, harmonica and occasionally piano on 2 CD or 4 LP 180-gram vinyl. All of these songs were written – and their subsequent demos recorded – before Bob Dylan turned 24 years old.
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.”
The Original Mono Recordings 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.
Together with The Witmark Demos, they provide the public with a wide-ranging view of Bob Dylan’s work during the 1960s, and chronicle his amazing evolution from fledgling songwriter to one of the world’s most inventive and singular recording artists.
Så skal vi til lommerne igen, pis, og forklare konerne, hvorfor disse plader er helt nødvendige investeringer:-)