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Bob Dylan - The Thing That Remains, 1980

a reminder from Floppy Boot Stomp (the Boss) about Bob Dylan 

at 'A Thousand Highways'

Bob Dylan - 

The Thing That Remains, 

80's tour

Various venues, various cities
Remastered FM/Soundboard sources @320

 From the brilliant Thousand Highways compilation sites. 

I imagine like me Silent Way would have visited that sight for 

CWS’ peerless ‘curated collections’ and this one from March 1, 2018 

is no exception CWS stopped posting in May of last year and I miss 

 this work but if like SW at Flopp Boot Stomp you have enjoyed them 

then have at them and if you don’t know his collections you are in for a treat!

Download them from HQ or check the link for CWS’ notes on the piece

Thousand Highways - The Thing That Remains

Bob Dylan in Portland, Oregon, USA 1980. Photo by Arthur Rosato

Bob Dylan - Field Recordings

VOODOO WAGON

So Jobe has posted a 'best of' this morning and a doozie it is too. Those of you mourning the inactive wonderment that is and was A THOUSAND HIGHWAYS Jobe has selected a best of the field recordings thus:

Now the one thing maybe Jobe couldn't say, for obvious reasons maybe, is that one of the great things about Thousand Highways was the notes from CS over there. I found the text introducing each of his peerless compilations as interesting as listening to them (there I said it!) 

Jobe is right and knows me well enough that I am not so much a fan of audience recordings and this is ironic in that I am of an age that well recalls 'bootlegs' that were basically unplayable. Over a 1000 vinyl boots from 'Record Fairs' the length and breadth of town hals throughout the country. 

Some of my DOORS collection I had offers from the USA from freaks wanting the covers never mind the vinyl (I kid you not, I used to correspond with loads of the freaks who believed Jim Morrison was still live >>sigh<< and once got offered nearly $100 in today's money for a gatefold sleeve Doors double album set WITHOUT the vinyl from a young (well youngish) lady who had a car (a Red Stingray ) with the licence plate L.A.WOMAN!!! I stopped corresponding after they started to get a little schmidgeon 'out there' with their demands! She started sending me photographs of herself sat on the bonnet!! I don't want to see that . . . . . no really!

Still I am now spoiled beyond measure by the remastering and repressing re-recording of boots and if it ain't a soundboard, matrix or studio based outtake, I tend not to bother. There is one exception (well one - ish) and that is the work from CS at THOUSAND HIGHWAYS

They are peerless IMHO

If you aint come across them before Jobe's selection is the BEST place to start!

Voodoo Wagon - BOB DYLAN - Best of Field Recordings - From Thousand Highways

A Thousand Highways

SUMMERTIME BOBNESS

As promised earlier by CWS A Thousand Highways has a mega post article of three volumes devoted to Bob Dylan post his born again preaching period and the reintroduction of the more secular songs and back catalogue. The article here is very well worth reading. Whilst I allowed I was sceptical as had rather left Bob to 'get it out of his system' (as if I knew this would happen) but "You Gotta Serve Somebody' really stuck in my craw and I was left to find inspiration elsewere for a few years. My brother bought all these from Saved to Gotta Serve etc but it was too strong a conversion for this listener and possessed little to no poetry for me. I don't gotta serve no-one 'cept me ya get me? 'Trust Yo'self' I say! Check the notes here as CS explores the somewhat eccentric reintroduction of more playful arrangements and re-arrangements of songs from his back catalogue. Fascinating

1000 Highways -Bob in Summer 1981

As he says:

The third and final year in Bob Dylan's so-called 'gospel period' is a peculiar, unique experience. The early days of the tour were actually quite reminiscent of the preceding Musical Retrospective Tour of Fall 1980. Note the appearance on Volume Three of "Abraham, Martin & John," which was played only twice in 1981 after being featured regularly throughout the earlier tour. Other songs shared between Dylan's four appearances in the United States during June 1981 and his popular return to secular performances between November to December 1980 after a year of pure gospel were "Rise Again," "Covenant Woman" and "We Just Disagree." These tracks would disappear from the set after the singer set foot on European soil for a Summer tour, and the new year would quickly acquire its own identity.

Enjoy I know I did . . . .  

There is a lovely study of the Bob Dylan 'Shot of Love' sessions and extensive notes as ever from 'A Thousand Highways' this past week

1000 Highways - Caribbean Wind outakes

If you do nothing else when you have visited here this week check out 'Heart Of Mine' one of the greatest love songs ever written IMHO

A new compilation of His Bobness from A Thousand Highways yesterday and a peach it is too

Rise Again 

 I wasn't expecting much as I don't care for the period of God bothering Dylan from the late 70's but by 80 he was shoehorning in back catalogue material again and it wasn't long before the hectoring tone of the preaching work was gone but as the notes here make clear this is one of the most interesting periods in Bob's career. It is worth visiting alone for CS's notes on this but the compilation is of the usual stunning quality

A Thousand Highways

Curated collections of Bob Dylan's best unreleased recordings.

This slipped my attention and as always from A Thousand Highways is always worth checking out. Superb notes as ever. I really like the way CS writes . . . . . fascinating to us Dylan obsessives

DYLAN - DIY Playlist Studio Essentials 73-78