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Bob Dylan’s epic career changing half-electric “Bringing It All Back Home” lp was released 60 years ago this week. I recall that the first thing I “heard” from it…a kid a year ahead of me in high school who recited the “Subterranean Homesick Blues” lyrics over lunch (he had a motorcycle and later went to Bard, of course).
Here is an alternate take on “Baby Blue” which closed the album, with different, nice, vocalizing.
A snippet of Bob singing (for Donovan and others) “Love Minus Zero” in a London hotel room appeared in “Don’t Look Back” doc, but here is the unedited whole song.
His “Mr. Tambourine Man” demo for his music publisher—with Bob hammering on a piano—a year before the album came out (he debuted it at Newport a few months later).
Also from 1964, the debut of “Gates of Eden,” live in New York.
Shot for the cover, with Bob and new wife Sara outside Peter Yarrow’s shack in Woodstock, obviously not used for album but by same photog, Daniel Kramer.
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