BOB DYLAN Gaslight TAPES original 3 LP BOX LIVE 1962 N MINT no TMOQ PROTEST FOLK
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SUPER RARE THREE LP BOX LIVE AT THE GASLIGHT 1962Bob Dylan: The Gaslight Tapes                             Original German pressing on Platinum (9022/3). Textured box and the records are in NEAR MINT condition. 
Super Rare ...Original first pressing THREE LP BOX set issued only in limited edition from Germany ....Live at The Gaslight 1962 was recorded early on in Dylan's career, when he was still virtually unknown outside of New York's Greenwich Village. Thanks to the cooperation of various club owners, and the management skills of Dave Van Ronk's wife, Terri Thal, Dylan was able to record a number of performances during that time on a reel-to-reel tape recorder patched into the house PA system.   

The Gaslight recordings had been warmly received by critics and collectors alike ever since Greil Marcus wrote about them in the late 1960s.
The Songs: The Gaslight Tapes capture early performances of three different Dylan compositions: "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" (often referred to as "Hard Rain"), "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," and "John Brown." Both "Hard Rain" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" would eventually appear on Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. "John Brown" would later be published and issued on Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1 in February 1963, but it would not be released on any of Dylan's subsequent studio albums (the song only re-appeared as a live performance on Dylan's 1993 MTV Unplugged album.)
The songs on The Gaslight Tapes are considered traditional folk songs; essays on a number of ballads performed by Dylan during his October residency at the Gaslight Cafe can be found in an anthology published in 2004 entitled The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad.
"Rocks And Gravel" is Dylan's own adaptation of Brownie McGhee's "Solid Road" and Leroy Carr's "Alabama Woman," an arrangement that fuses both songs into one. It was originally slated to appear on Dylan's second album (and would later appear on test pressings made for a preliminary version of the LP), but when Dylan reconfigured The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, he would omit "Rocks And Gravel" from the final album sequence.
"The Cuckoo" was originally recorded in the 1920s by Western North Carolina banjo musician Clarence Ashley. According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer, "The Cuckoo" is reportedly descended from an old folk ballad; it's an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires - to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection."[1]
Described by critic Dave Marsh as "the most widespread folk song in the English language," "Barbara Allen" dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665. Similar but different versions of the ballad have been traced to English and Scottish folk traditions, and when "Barbara Allen" was brought over to North America by early European settlers, no particular version of "Barbara Allen" was dominant or considered definitive. Over the years, countless variations of "Barbara Allen" have been found throughout the United States, with roughly 100 variations in Virginia alone, but the version Dylan sings on The Gaslight Tapes is one rooted in the English folk tradition.
In the story of "Barbara Allen," the title character rejects a suitor (his name varies in different versions of the songs, ranging from Sweet William to John Graeme). On his death bed, he calls Barbara Allen to his side, swearing his love for her. However, in some versions of "Barbara Allen" (particularly older variations), he discovers Barbara Allen's complaint that he once neglected her in a local tavern. When she sees him on his death bed, she offers a cold observation, "Young man, I think you're dying."
The story then takes a strange twist: when Barbara Allen walks home, she hears the church bells tolling for her true love. She then dies, mysteriously, and the two are buried in an old churchyard, where a love knot then comes to twine, made from a rose growing out of her lover's heart and a briar from Barbara Allen's.
Towards the end of his essay on "Barbara Allen," Dave Marsh focuses on the outcome of the song, the intertwined rose and briar emerging from the graves of the spurned lover, and Barbara Allen's rejection of her true love. "What’s amazing is our ability to ignore the lesson that 'Barbara Allen' has to teach," writes Marsh, "which is the peril of denying the complicated mysteries that throb within our hardened hearts and the equal peril of horsing around instead of acknowledging our love for one another. This is not a lesson you can squeeze onto a tombstone, or, for that matter, our current conception of a curriculum, but it is one to carry through this life."
Gaslight TapesSide 1:A Hard Rain's Gonna FallHezekiah Jones (Black Cross)No More Auction BlockRocks & Gravels

Side 2:Don't Think TwiceBarbara AllenMoonshine Blues

Side 3:Motherless ChildrenHandsome MollyJohn BrownBallad of Hollis BrownKind Hearted Woman Blues

Side 4:See That My Grave is Kept CleanAin't No More Cane (Cane On The Brazzo)CocaineCuckoo is a Pretty BirdWest Texas (excerpt)

Side 5:Man on the StreetHe was a friend of MineTalkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre BluesSong to Woody

Side 6:Car carPretty PollyTwo Trains RunningRambling On My Mind
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